Military Research: Switzerland on the Board of RUAG International
The federal government will sit on the governing body with Toni Eder and Sabine D'Amelio-Favez to comply with the Armanent Enterprises Act…
The people of Moutier have chosen: Canton Jura and no longer Berne
Thanks also to tighter controls than in the 2017 vote, guaranteed by the federal government, the French-speaking city will change state on…
Leases and rentals in Switzerland: light decrease in litigation
In the second half of 2020, there were more than 300 fewer conciliation proceedings in the federal government than in the first six months,…
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…