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…
Federal guarantee to the revised constitutions of three cantons
Berne proposes to Parliament that the revised Constitutions of Zurich, Graubünden and Neuchâtel should be brought into line with higher……
The culture of Italian Grisons remains a… unique heritage
For Radiotelevisione Svizzera, PGI and BAK Economics, the Italian-speaking cultural realities below Chur create 0.83 CHF for every franc…
Gotthard Base Tunnel: Up in passengers and dynamism
More 28 percent in traffic on the main Alpine tunnel between 2016 and 2019, as well as positive data for stations in the cantons of Ticino…
Switzerland and Graubünden for the promotion of Italian and Romansh
Unprecedented performance contract between the federal government and the government of Chur for the preservation and protection of…
Beate Jessel at the Federal Institute for Forest Research
On September 1, 2021, the 59-year-old executive, currently President of the German Agency for Nature Conservation, will take up her…
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…
Forty years of the Conference of Alpine Cantonal Governments
The 1981 association that defends rural people and mountain areas covers Uri, Obwalden, Nidwalden, Glarus, Appenzell Innerrhoden,…
“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…
CO2 law: for Switzerland and the cantons it must be done
Ahead of the vote on June 13, Federal Councillor Simonetta Sommaruga explained the reasons for the convinced adherence of politicians to…
First “Giornate Grigionitaliane” in the summer in Valposchiavo
On August 7 and 8, Pro Grigioni Italiano is organizing several integrated events in which knowledge, knowledge, places and beauties will be…
The grape harvest 2020 in Switzerland? Scarce, but excellent
Swiss winemakers achieved 84 million liters, a result 13 percent below the 10-year average due to bad weather
New protected assets in the cantons of Geneva and Grisons
The Federal Council has adapted two inventories of Swiss settlements to be protected as well as useful to promote the culture of quality…
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…