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…
Bologna will give new life to electrical and electronic waste
A groundbreaking project of Emilia-Romagna, unique in Europe, to collect WEEE, prepare it for reuse and sell it at large commercial chains
Switzerland’s long-term climate strategy
On January 27, the Federal Council deliberated on all the modalities for submitting a neutral greenhouse gas emissions budget by the year…
Switzerland and UK much closer in financial matters
Bern and London are targeting the cross-border market for numerous services in the areas of insurance, banking, asset management and…
How the Swiss export industry focuses on innovation
Following the agreement between the European Free Trade Association and Indonesia, Switzerland will help companies maintain modernizing…
An App to unbureaucratize the work of Swiss farmers
The "My agricultural data sharing" application, which was successfully tested in late 2020 in the canton of Fribourg, will speed up the…
Switzerland-Liechtenstein pact on scientific innovation
Cooperation agreement between Bern and Vaduz on the promotion of research-based modernization renewed on January 26 through Innosuisse
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…