Slight decline in tax burden of Swiss cantons and municipalities
The 2021 exploitation index, calculated by the Federal Finance Administration, shows a decline in two-thirds of the states, particularly in…
That Italian Confederation born and buried in Zurich
The Piedmontese violation of the Peace between Austria and France of November 10, 1859 denied the Peninsula an alliance led by the Pope and…
The dangers of the ESM revealed at a conference in Switzerland
A Uster economist Emanuele Gargiulo, moderated by Andrea Schenone of "Swiss Federalism", has illustrated the too many flaws of the European…
Tägermoos, and an ancient treaty between Baden and Thurgau…
A unique agricultural border area of only 1.54 square kilometers is, at the same time, a district of a Swiss municipality and a district of…
Federal Council approves Swiss Green Fintech network
State Secretariat for International Financial Matters aims for close collaboration among Swiss experts in digital technology and capital…
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…
Bern, Zurich and Aargau focus on fiscal innovation
Three Swiss cantons with major research clusters, but hitherto "high taxation", will reduce taxes to those who promote research and…
The ethics of competitiveness and the spirit of federalism
The success of the Swiss model appears to lie in the competition between the 26 cantons in the areas of efficiency, income distribution and…
Here’s why Switzerland needs to invest more in startups
The Confederation has all the means to imagine itself as the new "Unicorn Nation", as long as it shuns the stigma of failure and thinks…
In 2025 Nidwalden will be the best “tax haven” in the world
The canton with capital Stans, co-founder of Switzerland more than 700 years ago, will take over from Hong Kong the palm of the "lightest"…
The Europe of small states and a barely sketched federalism…
Alice Raviola studied the genesis and mutation of some geopolitical actors of the Ancien Régime in the game of "balances and fractures" and…
Waldstätte and the “forest” cantons at the dawn of the Swiss…
"An artificial area where meadows, pastures, fields and forests are mixed" identified, from 1289, the territories of Uri, Schwyz and…
ASNI, “No is catastrophic for our quality of life!”
L’Azione per una Svizzera Neutrale e Indipendente rammenta l’applicazione dell’articolo 121b della Costituzione Federale, per il quale…
Umbrella law will adapt Swiss law to blockchain
Yes of the Swiss Parliament on September 25 to update ten federal regulations to encourage developments in all distributed ledger…
New blood and more initiatives for the Swiss Startup Association
The association, chaired by Raphael Tobler, will promote the interests of innovative Swiss companies and the topic of entrepreneurship in…
Swiss and Italian politicians discuss the future in Au
On July 17, Marco Chiesa and Piero Marchesi (UDC) and Guido Guidesi and Stefano Gualandris (Lega) explained the advantages of federalism to…