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
Elisa Fanton: “By sanitizing the air, almost no contagion!”
Discovering IAQ-ASE, an award-winning Ticino company in Zurich that certifies the sanitization of interior spaces, in the words of the…
“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…
Eleonora Bafunno: “The ‘democratic’ piano is reality”
Already the star of the Start Up/PMI Innovative Award in Zurich, the young artist and entrepreneur makes vertical pianos as functional as…
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
Two Swiss beech forests are UNESCO World Heritage Sites
The ancient beech forests of the valleys of Lodano, Busai and Soladino (Ticino) and Bettlachstock (Solothurn) inscribed on July 28 in the…
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
Leo Isolani: “In Switzerland, we do give importance to work”
The driver from Ancona, already a world champion in hillclimbs with the Ferrari brand, talks about himself, about "his" new country and…
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…
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…
Culture and economy: a truly winning combination in Ticino
A study by BAK Economics and two cantonal departments has shown that every franc of public subsidy for culture is worth 2.58 of added…
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…
Partnership agreement between BAK Economics and Impact Hub Ticino
The Basel-based research institute and the Ticino-based non-profit organization will work on the Swiss Triple Impact program in favor of…