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…
Here’s how Switzerland’s roads and highways will change in 2021
The federal government will invest 2.9 billion francs for maintenance, operations, improvements and construction, including 396 million for…
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…
Karin Keller-Sutter’s journey to the divided city of Moutier
Ahead of the March 28 vote, the head of the Federal Department of Justice saw the City Council and the cantonal authorities of Bern and…
To Christine Burgener the State Secretariat for Migration
Former United Nations special envoy for the former Burma, the well-known Swiss diplomat will take over from the retiring Mario Gattiker at…
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…
From Switzerland the suggestive proposal for a “digital euro”
A non-physical currency devised for the ECB by Christian Grothoff, a Bern-based computer scientist, David Chaum, an American cryptographer,…
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…
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…
Swiss Film Honor Award 2021 to “Lilo Pulver”
The recognition of the talented Bernese actress of world renown, born in 1929, will be streamed on March 26 from the RTS studios in Geneva…
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…
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…
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
Growing Administrative Center at Guisanplatz in Bern
Modern workstations in Building D from 2026 for 1,200 officials of the Federal Department of Defense, Population Protection and Sports