“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…
COMITES electoral lists registration: last call on 3/11
One month in advance of the December 3 deadline to request voting materials from the Consulates of Geneva, Bern, Basel, Zurich and Lugano
First Strategic Partnership Dialogue between Switzerland and the USA
Colloquium between Livia Leu and Wendy R. Sherman on the perspectives of the relationship between the Swiss Confederation and the United…
Home ownership: strong rise in demand and prices
Zurich and Zug, the Lake Geneva arc and the Bern agglomeration have seen a rapid drying up of the rental market, with obvious results...
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…
In five books “Das Stoffe-Projekt” by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
The great Swiss writer's masterpiece goes online and on paper for its centennial, along with 30,000 pages of manuscripts from a…
Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology in the world top 15
Good performance of Swiss universities in the latest QS World University Ranking, with ETH eighth and EPFL 14th for internationality and…
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…
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…
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…
364.3 million requested for federal buildings
The government has adopted the 2021 dispatch on constructions that are useful to Switzerland, from the Swimming Centre in Tenero to the…
“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…
SFIVET is on its way to full academic status
In 2022, the Federal College of Applied Sciences in Zollikofen, attended by 16,000 people a year ago, will be even more attractive
Sustainable vegetables: there’s the “Horticulture” test station
An advanced federal and experimental facility dedicated to the fundamental issues of "ecological" agricultural production has opened in…
Swiss Post from the present into the future
The Federal Council has chosen Christian Levrat as the new Chairman of Swiss Post, continuing its modernization efforts
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…