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…
Here’s why Switzerland needs to invest more in startups
The Confederation has all the means to imagine itself as the new "Unicorn Nation", as long as it shuns the stigma of failure and thinks…
In 2025 Nidwalden will be the best “tax haven” in the world
The canton with capital Stans, co-founder of Switzerland more than 700 years ago, will take over from Hong Kong the palm of the "lightest"…
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…
Italy, requested “certain times for differentiated regionalism”
Stefano Bonaccini, president of the Conference of the major public territorial bodies of the Peninsula, pushes to accelerate the process of…
ASNI, “No is catastrophic for our quality of life!”
L’Azione per una Svizzera Neutrale e Indipendente rammenta l’applicazione dell’articolo 121b della Costituzione Federale, per il quale…
Umbrella law will adapt Swiss law to blockchain
Yes of the Swiss Parliament on September 25 to update ten federal regulations to encourage developments in all distributed ledger…
Italy: “On the diversified autonomy, the Government is ready”
The Minister for Regional Affairs sent the draft of the Framework Law on the future management of the Emilians, Lombards and Venetians to…
Italy, the legitimate implementation of differentiated autonomy
A rigorous, multi-level process will allow Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto to reach parliamentary approval of their special requests.
Italy, because differentiated autonomy “is” the Constitution
The initiatives of Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto highlight great opportunities for institutions as a whole, as well as for the…
New blood and more initiatives for the Swiss Startup Association
The association, chaired by Raphael Tobler, will promote the interests of innovative Swiss companies and the topic of entrepreneurship in…
Swiss and Italian politicians discuss the future in Au
On July 17, Marco Chiesa and Piero Marchesi (UDC) and Guido Guidesi and Stefano Gualandris (Lega) explained the advantages of federalism to…
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…
Switzerland “free port” for highly qualified workers
Despite increased payroll tax competition, the burden of Switzerland's 26 cantons, led by Obwalden and Uri, is lower than the 37.9% global…