“EU market access if it serves Swiss competitiveness”
The Swiss Arts and Crafts Union has formulated a series of specific and comprehensive proposals designed to overcome the stalemate in…
How the voting record of citizens’ initiatives changes
The government decided to temporarily revise the COVID-19 ordinance on signature lists to be collected for bills in analogy to referendums
Still very little interest in the carry-over procedure
Direct VAT payments for imports to the Federal Tax Administration instead of the Federal Customs Administration do not take off
Driver’s licenses: the Switzerland-Italy Agreement is renewed
Bern and Rome signed on May 13 the five-year renewal of the convention for the mutual recognition and conversion of driving licenses
Greater working flexibility for federal staff
Employees will be given more autonomy to determine their place of work and working hours as well as extended guarantees for the over 55s.
Federal Council: no derogations for Swiss Guards
The Government is opposed to House Initiative 19.429 to exempt from military tax for the duration of service in Vatican City
Here’s how Switzerland’s COVID certificate will work
By the end of June 2021, the non-falsifiable UFIT document will be available, upon request, to individuals who are vaccinated, cured, or…
Three degrees of separation between Switzerland and the European Union
Invalidable for the Federal Council are the obstacles of wage protection, the directive on the free movement of EU citizens and state aid
How the Swiss export industry speaks to the government
Guy Parmelin at the center of the fourth round table on export together with 22 business associations and Swiss Chambers of Commerce, SECO,…
“More science in diplomacy, more diplomacy in science.”
On the sidelines of USI's 25th Dies Academicus, Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis outlined the strategy that will inform Swiss foreign…
Don’t ask us for words: in Italy we no longer have any…
The evolution of the bureaucratic language of the Belpaese does not move towards simplification, but towards farce: an idiom that, by now,…
Forty years of the Conference of Alpine Cantonal Governments
The 1981 association that defends rural people and mountain areas covers Uri, Obwalden, Nidwalden, Glarus, Appenzell Innerrhoden,…
The “von Wattenwyl talks” and the search for a compromise
Since February 1970 in the "old town" of Bern, the Federal Councillors have been meeting with the leaders of the parties in the Executive…
Switzerland’s plan of measures for clean water
At its meeting on April 28, the Federal Council launched a consultation on future measures to protect the life-giving liquid forever.
In Basel on 27-28 May the “Conference on Federalism”
The intersection of the Swiss system of power-sharing and dynamism is the theme of the sixth tri- or quadrennial happening expected in the…
More relief and less regulation for Swiss companies
On April 28, the Federal Council launched the consultation procedures for a law intended to streamline bureaucracy and relaunch EasyGov