Five new participants for “Exemplary Energy and Climate”
PostBus, Flughafen Zürich AG, PostFinance, RUAG MRO Holding AG and SRG SSR join the top ten projected adherents of the 2050 climate…
The three topics on the Swiss ballot on March 7, 2021
To the people the choice on the ban on hiding the face, the law on electronic identification systems and the economic partnership agreement…
To Christine Burgener the State Secretariat for Migration
Former United Nations special envoy for the former Burma, the well-known Swiss diplomat will take over from the retiring Mario Gattiker at…
China-Switzerland talks on financial markets
Virtual meeting on March 3 between Federal Councillor Ueli Maurer and Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Liu He on stock exchange,…
Michael Schöll at the head of the Federal Office of Justice
The current Deputy Director of the Office and Head of Private Law will take up his post on September 1, succeeding the retiring Martin…
Yes to Swiss tonnage tax consultation
Berne proposes a flat rate based on net tonnage, multiplied by a staggered tariff and the number of days of operation.
WEF: Federal aid to the Canton of Graubünden from 2022 to 2024
The Swiss government will invest 2.55 million francs a year for three years and deploy 5,000 military personnel for the security of the…
Peter Düggeli is the new Head of Communication at the FDFA
SRF's Washington correspondent has been appointed to head the Department of Foreign Affairs media by Federal Councilor Ignazio Cassis
From Switzerland the suggestive proposal for a “digital euro”
A non-physical currency devised for the ECB by Christian Grothoff, a Bern-based computer scientist, David Chaum, an American cryptographer,…
Download the brochure “The Swiss Confederation in brief” 2021
The official guide on the functioning of Swiss democracy and its institutions, expanded and improved, will have a print run of 170,000…
Up the income of Swiss households, but…
Bank Cler's "Swiss Income Monitor" analysis found increases of CHF 3,500 and CHF 5,400 on median and average earnings, alongside greater…
The Presidency of the Helvetic Confederation from 1848 to the present day
Brief history of the highest office provided for by the Swiss Federal Constitution, assigned from time to time to the most senior Councilor…
2.6 billion in value from Zurich Innovation Park
A study by BAK Economics predicts that the operation of the IPZ will create 14,000 new jobs between Dübendorf and the Limmat, with a…
Swiss SMEs have saved more than 2 billion on duties
Thanks to Free Trade Agreements, 140,000 Swiss companies have made use of special reduced rates, 55,000 of them for all transactions.
At the Federal Office of the Environment there will be Petra Zimmermann
In the summer, the 50-year-old manager will take over from Christine Hofmann at the end of a long career in IT and sustainability, in the…
Hurray for the first “Romancia Week” in Swiss history!
Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis, together with the government of Chur, launches the inaugural "Emna Rumantscha" dedicated to the fourth…