Tägermoos, and an ancient treaty between Baden and Thurgau…
A unique agricultural border area of only 1.54 square kilometers is, at the same time, a district of a Swiss municipality and a district of…
Switzerland and the “fantastic four” of direct democracy
Popular initiatives for the total or partial revision of the Constitution and abrogative or optional referendums embody the salt of a…
That corner of Europe that every six months changes… country
When the Thirty Years' War ended, on November 7, 1659, France and Spain decided that a small island in the Bidasoa River would become a…
The Europe of small states and a barely sketched federalism…
Alice Raviola studied the genesis and mutation of some geopolitical actors of the Ancien Régime in the game of "balances and fractures" and…
Waldstätte and the “forest” cantons at the dawn of the Swiss…
"An artificial area where meadows, pastures, fields and forests are mixed" identified, from 1289, the territories of Uri, Schwyz and…
This is how Liechtenstein invented the corporate state out of nothing
In 2003, the Principality, nestled between Austria and Switzerland, overturned the constitutional balance between sovereign and citizens…
Athenian democracy? Revive between Glarus and Appenzell…
In two Swiss cantons, the Landsgemeinde, a popular assembly in which citizens vote on government, courts, laws, and expenditures by... a…
Even Piedmont has said yes to differentiated regionalism
Majority and opposition agree in Turin on autonomy and a long bouquet of subjects to be obtained, but in respect of a national unity of…
Tuscany joins the train of differentiated autonomy
In October 2019, Florence also began negotiations with the government for a regionalism of its own, but limited to only 10 subjects and…
Differentiated autonomy: single path for Umbria and Marche
Ancona and Perugia have activated the mechanism of Article 116 of the Constitution, identifying in a unitary way further forms and…