Towards measures for a competitive Swiss economy
In the context of the fiscal policy of the OSCE and G20, Bern will focus on innovation, sustainable growth, a high level of prosperity and…
New strategic partnership between Switzerland and Austria
On June 11, Ministers Ignazio Cassis and Alexander Schallenberg will sign an agreement on the strengthening of interests and mutual…
So the emergency in Italy has become a perennial normality
In Italy, exceptional measures seem to take on more and more the nature of everyday life, so much so that people get used to (over)living…
Reduced work in Switzerland: will fight against abuses
The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs of the Confederation has tripled the staff dedicated to the fight against abusive collection and…
Switzerland against illegally imported and falsified drugs
The federal government took part in Operation Pangea XIV conducted by Interpol, hitting the sale of erection stimulants in 90 percent of…
Federal guarantee for five revised cantonal constitutions
The Swiss government asks the two branches of parliament to approve the changes to the basic maps of Uri, Schaffhausen, Aargau, Ticino and…
Beate Jessel at the Federal Institute for Forest Research
On September 1, 2021, the 59-year-old executive, currently President of the German Agency for Nature Conservation, will take up her…
COVID certificate ordinance adopted in Switzerland
The first EU-compatible certifications for vaccinated, cured or tested individuals will be issued as scheduled by the federal government in…
Switzerland now aims at the international SKA observatory
Bern wants to participate in the full operation of the most sensitive radio telescope of the 21st century, which will study the formation…
In Switzerland the transport of goods will “slide” underground
Decisive financial and legal steps for the Cargo Sous Terrain project, thanks to which efficient loading units will travel at 30 km/h in…
For Standard & Poor’s Liechtenstein is a triple A country
In its report of May 31, 2021, the agency S&P Global confirmed the Principality's rating with the highest expected grade on account of the…
When the real problem is not the “how much” but the “why”
The issue of tax pressure in Italy is never addressed from the point of view of the people, but always and only from the technical point of…
Twenty years ago Liechtenstein’s attack on Germany
On June 1, 2001, the Alpine Principality filed an unusual lawsuit with the UN Court of Justice for the use of its assets as war…
From ch Foundation a journalistic podcast on federalism
A project of the Bernese Stiftung will focus on the innovative power of the division of powers in Switzerland, but also on the difficulties…
Alex Kuprecht: “Federalism on the brink causes pandemic…”
On the sidelines of the Basel Conference, the President of the Council of States spoke in a video about his idea of Switzerland and the…
The federalism that awaits us according to Karin Keller-Sutter
During the Conference on Federalism 2021, the Federal Councillor offered an interesting point of view on the Swiss system of distribution…