In Switzerland everyone participates in entrepreneurial life
The Federal Government has given the shareholders of joint stock companies the opportunity to participate in the corporate decision-making…
How Liechtenstein prevents violence against women
The Government of the Principality sent to the Landtag the note amending the rules of protection, interrogation and accompaniment of…
More than half a billion francs in aid to Syria since 2011
On the tenth anniversary of the Middle East war, Switzerland will provide an additional 60 million to protect the population and facilitate…
Switzerland is not today… a temporal island, but in the future?
In Berne, daylight saving time will be introduced on March 28 and will last until October 31, but discussions continue in neighboring…
Counterfeiting costs Switzerland 4.5 billion a year
OECD study reveals that trade in fake "Swiss" medicines, watches and appliances is worth 10,000 fewer jobs and damage to health
Online trade: more customs security between Switzerland and the EU
Bern will participate in the "Import Control System 2", whereby data will already be transmitted during shipment from the country of…
One hundred and sixty years of Italy, not even one of federalism …
On March 17, 1861, Metternich's "geographical expression" was transformed into a unitary state, removing the confederal idea cherished by…
Switzerland paradise of the purchase of goods and services online
In 2019, 97 percent of Helvetians used the Internet for shopping, a fact that placed them ahead of the Netherlands and Denmark even for top…
Direct access to EU databases for the Swiss police
The Spontaneous Accession Agreement in Prüm and the EURODAC Protocol will make it possible to strengthen cooperation against cross-border…
Swiss students work (as well) ten hours a week
Three-quarters of young people studying in Switzerland are in employment, the remuneration of which accounts for 39 percent of their…
From Switzerland the suggestive proposal for a “digital euro”
A non-physical currency devised for the ECB by Christian Grothoff, a Bern-based computer scientist, David Chaum, an American cryptographer,…
Swiss SMEs have saved more than 2 billion on duties
Thanks to Free Trade Agreements, 140,000 Swiss companies have made use of special reduced rates, 55,000 of them for all transactions.
Switzerland and six other EU countries together for the Nutri-Score
Transnational coordination mechanism on the "food traffic light" with Bern and the authorities of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the…
Council of Europe: Who will represent the Swiss territories?
The names of the 12 members of the Swiss delegation to the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities in Strasbourg for the period…
Professional titles more equivalent between Switzerland and Germany
A new Swiss-German bilateral agreement will reflect developments in work-based education in both countries and extend the scope of the…
Applications open for the “Marcel Benoist Science Prize”
After the low-profile centennial cause COVID, 250,000 francs will reward in 2021 the best studies carried out in the field of humanities…