Swiss Earnings Structure Survey (ESS) 2020
In 2020, the median wage of a full-time job in the Swiss economy as a whole (private and public sector) was CHF 6665 gross per month. The…
The cow as ambassador of Switzerland
The cow is a symbol in Switzerland and can be found everywhere in different forms: in addition to seeing it grazing a bit 'everywhere in…
Swiss Railways celebrates 175 years
Swiss Federal Railways, a model of efficiency in terms of passengers, punctuality and safety are considered the best in Europe
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…