“Patrouille des Glaciers” on the march for future editions
Agreement between the Confederation, Valais and the ASPdG Association for the international military ski mountaineering competition open to…
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…
Damian Elsig new head of the Swiss National Library
The newly appointed director of the NL will take office Aug. 16, succeeding Marie-Christine Doffey, who has led the institution since 2005…
In Basel on 27-28 May the “Conference on Federalism”
The intersection of the Swiss system of power-sharing and dynamism is the theme of the sixth tri- or quadrennial happening expected in the…
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…
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…
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…
Swiss monuments? A “hidden” treasure to be exploited…
Protecting Switzerland's real estate heritage of 270,000 historic buildings creates positive spillover effects for culture, tourism and…
Switzerland and the “fantastic four” of direct democracy
Popular initiatives for the total or partial revision of the Constitution and abrogative or optional referendums embody the salt of a…