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
Fallout shelters and emergency management in Switzerland
Bomb shelters began to be built as a result of the spread of nuclear weapons. Especially during the Cold War in many countries, including…
The best cheese in the world is Swiss
Swiss Gruyere wins the 34th edition of the "World Championship Cheese Contest"
Swiss franc reaches parity with the euro
It has not happened since 2015 (when the Swiss central bank abandoned the minimum exchange rate threshold of 1.20 Swiss francs per euro)…
Alpine Convention
The Alpine Convention was the first international treaty in the world to consider a transnational mountain area in its entirety
Rumantsch: a language to discover
Romansh (Rumantsch, Romontsch, Rumauntsch) is the fourth national language of Switzerland and is spoken in the trilingual canton of…
Rapperswil-Hurden wooden bridge
The wooden bridge "Holzbrücke" is a footbridge between Rapperswil (Canton St. Gallen) and Hurden (Canton Schwyz) located near the so-called…
Andrea Schenone pushes “Swiss Federalism” at “La Res Publica”
The president of the well-known association based in Gommiswald was interviewed on the topics of Switzerland, direct democracy and…
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…
COVID-19: Measures to restore Switzerland’s freedom
The Federal Council revokes the measures in force until the end of March, except for the isolation and the mask requirement on transport…
COVID: two different hypotheses of “end of restrictions” in Switzerland
Away with quarantine and mandatory telecommuting as of Feb. 3, but the Federal Council could already send the pandemic to the archives by…
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
The four themes on the Swiss referendum on February 13, 2022
To the people the choices on tobacco advertising to young people, prohibition of animal experiments, stamp duty and press subsidies
Sarkis Shahinian: “Azerbaijani government releases Armenian inmates”
Secretary General of Switzerland-Armenia Parliamentary Group talks about detainees in defiance of UN law and war secrets in Artsakh
Switzerland is the world champion of… “human freedom”
The "Human Freedom Index 2021" measured 165 countries, through 82 different personal and economic indicators, and recorded the Swiss…