Electronic Identification: Federal Council accelerates
Departments of Justice and Police and Finance, Chancery, Cantons, and academia urged to work together for EI despite March 7, 2021 no vote
Good performance of the digital economy in Switzerland
Federal Institute of Intellectual Property report shows high Swiss competitiveness compared to other countries in non-personalized data
The institutional agreement between Switzerland and the EU will not happen
That's how a seven-year negotiation process, in which the rocks always outweighed the opportunities, ended amid ups and downs on May 26,…
In Switzerland twenty-four months of reduced work allowance
On May 12, 2021, the Federal Council decided to extend the right to ILR, to which is added the extension of the summary procedure for…
Jean-Philippe Gaudin will no longer be the head of Swiss 007
The Government and the Divisionary at the top of the Information Activities Service will mutually terminate the employment relationship for…
Video, the presentation of the “Innovative Start Up/SME Award”
The competition aimed at new companies and small and medium-sized enterprises most capable of innovation has "visited" May 25 the Chamber…
Ignazio Cassis at the Council of Europe for digital rights
In Hamburg, the Federal Councillor and head of the FDFA underlined the risks associated with digitalisation, without wanting to put…
Günther Dissertori: a South Tyrolean at the ETH Zurich
New Provost for the prestigious ETH in place of Sarah Springman, while Professors Thomas J. Schmidt and Mike Seidel will integrate PSI…
The number of prisoners in Switzerland is the lowest since 2011
The federal government reports a total of 6316 people incarcerated, occupying 85.4 percent of the available places in the 92 deprivation of…
BAK Economics: “There is alarm about the outlook for exports.”
According to the Basel-based research institute, increased technical barriers between Switzerland and the EU would lead to industry…
More federalism means higher Gross Domestic Product
The outcome of an analysis by BAK Economics for the Assembly of European Regions and the Institut für Föderalismus on six leading…
Europe remains the “second home” of the Swiss abroad
In 2020, more than one in ten Swiss citizens lived outside the national borders, particularly in France, with an increase in women and the…
In Ticino an observatory against organized crime
The Institute of Law of USI and Swiss Radio and Television have launched a center of expertise on mafias, based on a hundred facts and 400…
364.3 million requested for federal buildings
The government has adopted the 2021 dispatch on constructions that are useful to Switzerland, from the Swimming Centre in Tenero to the…
New inheritance law effective January 1, 2023
In future, Swiss heirs will be able to freely dispose of a larger portion of the estate, with a reduction for their children from three…
In Switzerland, 11% less criminal convictions in 2020
The Federal Statistical Office has observed a decrease in violations of foreigners' and traffic laws as well as in sentences of more than 2…