Yes of the Federal Council to the Oberburg bypass
The government is asking the Swiss parliament for 77 million Swiss francs to improve the road network in the Burgdorf conurbation as part…
Switzerland will have an ad hoc ambassador for the… science
For the first time, the Federal Council has chosen a special representative for scientific diplomacy in the person of High Representative…
More flexibility in promoting Swiss innovation
Innosuisse and the SNSF will have more room for manoeuvre and be more responsive in their support of renovation projects and start-ups.
COMCO survey of ATM systems in Switzerland
The Competition Commission opened an investigation against Mastercard on Feb. 8 for allegedly impeding SIX's National Cash Scheme (NCS)
Switzerland and six other EU countries together for the Nutri-Score
Transnational coordination mechanism on the "food traffic light" with Bern and the authorities of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the…
Taxation, sixteen fields of action for the Switzerland of the future
Amidst lights and shadows, experts have developed new principles on which to guide tax policy debates through a dialogue based on trust
A group of experts will improve the Swiss fiscal centre
On behalf of Federal Councillor Ueli Maurer, experts from the Confederation, the cantons and the economic and scientific world are working…
Council of Europe: Who will represent the Swiss territories?
The names of the 12 members of the Swiss delegation to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Strasbourg for the period…
Between what is given and what is received, there is the fiscal residue
In 1950, economist James Buchanan defined the yardstick against which to assess the adequacy of the overall redistributive activity of the…
In a coin 50 years of women’s suffrage in Switzerland
On April 29, 2021, the Federal Mint will issue a new gold coinage with a face value of 50 francs to celebrate half a century of women's…
The pillar insurance companies of the Zurich marketplace
In 2019, the security branch of the financial sector generated one in six francs of added value and provided one in ten jobs on the banks…
Applications open for the “Marcel Benoist Science Prize”
After the low-profile centennial cause COVID, 250,000 francs will reward in 2021 the best studies carried out in the field of humanities…
Bologna will give new life to electrical and electronic waste
A groundbreaking project of Emilia-Romagna, unique in Europe, to collect WEEE, prepare it for reuse and sell it at large commercial chains
Switzerland’s long-term climate strategy
On January 27, the Federal Council deliberated on all the modalities for submitting a neutral greenhouse gas emissions budget by the year…
Draghi in 2011: “Federalism helps public accounts”
The Governor of the Bank of Italy evoked local taxes associated with a reduction of taxes at the center and new decentralized tasks subject…
Up to CHF 6 billion for Switzerland and the cantons from the National Bank
New profit distribution agreement (and doubled amounts for fiscal years 2020-2025...) between the Federal Department of Finance and the SNB