Cohesion between town and country has strengthened in Switzerland
The 2016-2023 multi-year program of the New Regional Policy (NPR) already makes an important contribution to the development of the…
Swiss cantons improve their fiscal attractiveness
The "BAK Taxation Index" unveiled a drop from 16.9 percent to 13.9 percent in ordinary burden, using 2017 as the "pre-RFFA" baseline year
“Pandemic as a learning curve for federalism”
An interim report on the approach of the cantons to the crisis from COVID19, carried out by Avenir Suisse, saw Zug, Ticino and Grisons at…
Public funds for nine Swiss film festivals
The Federal Office of Culture will sign a CHF 4 million performance contract for the period 2022-2025 with well-known film festivals
As many as sixteen thematic museums in the good graces of the Confederation
In the period 2023-2026, Bern will lend a hand with operating contributions to various permanent exhibitions, allocating CHF 6.3 million…
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…
The “Basel Declaration” for the federalism of the future
Following the similar profession of will in Montreux in 2017, the federal government, cantons, cities and municipalities have signed a new…
“Prize for Federalism” 2021: finalists selected
The fifty or so very different applications from various parts of Switzerland that were in the running for the CHF 10,000 from the…
Aargau, Geneva and Ticino in the foreign test on voting by mail
For the June 13 round, the 1,600 residents of Australia, Brazil and Thailand will receive half ballots from the motherland and half from…
Active the European Committee for the prevention of torture
During their 11-day stay, the delegation visited various detention facilities in the cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Aargau, Solothurn, Bern and…
Division of tasks between Switzerland and the cantons: halt to the project
COVID stops adjusting responsibilities on individual premiums, supplementary OASI/DI benefits, regional passenger traffic and rail…
The Swiss Districts? Still children of a minor federalism
Neither Cantons nor municipalities, Bezirk or Amtsbezirk in German and District in French are not used to apply for citizenship and are not…
Law against facial dissimulation: the ball passes to the cantons
The Federal Bureau of Justice will assist states, which have two years to do so, in drafting at the local level the implementing rule for…
Digital geodata from swisstopo available free of charge for use
From March 1, 2021, the Federal Office of Topography of Switzerland will make its services and official digital data available online free…
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…