November 14, 2021
How the “Digital Switzerland” Committee feeds on federalism
Federal Councillor Ueli Maurer, Federal Chancellor Walter Thurnherr, economists and scientists lean over the three levels of digitization
October 12, 2021
Giancarlo Pagliarini: “Federalism would facilitate Italy”
The 79-year-old politician, now active with the "October 22 Network", remembers Gianfranco Miglio, thinks of the lira for the South and…
August 13, 2021
Belarus: Significant tightening of Swiss sanctions
On August 11, the Federal Council adopted almost immediate limitations on trade in certain goods and services plus financial restrictions
August 1, 2021
Ignazio Cassis: “Switzerland in my heart, the world as a home”
Speech of the Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs in Bangkok on National Day to the many Swiss living abroad
August 1, 2021
Guy Parmelin: “Yesterday’s values will be tomorrow’s…”
Speech of the President of the Swiss Confederation on National Day 2021 from the Vaud summit of Les Diablerets at 3000 meters
July 31, 2021
Meeting in Bern between the heads of the Confederation and the OECD
Guy Parmelin and Ueli Maurer on taxation with Mathias Cormann, new Secretary of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
July 29, 2021
Two Swiss beech forests are UNESCO World Heritage Sites
The ancient beech forests of the valleys of Lodano, Busai and Soladino (Ticino) and Bettlachstock (Solothurn) inscribed on July 28 in the…
July 28, 2021
The culture of Italian Grisons remains a… unique heritage
For Radiotelevisione Svizzera, PGI and BAK Economics, the Italian-speaking cultural realities below Chur create 0.83 CHF for every franc…
July 21, 2021
EDU Court: more margin of appreciation for Member States
An amendment to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms will streamline the mechanism of judgments in…
July 20, 2021
Free trade “to the max” between the United Kingdom and Liechtenstein
Minister Dominique Hasler signed in London the most comprehensive agreement ever for the Principality's access to another country's markets
July 17, 2021
The inhumanity of the first revolutionaries germ of catastrophes
On the anniversary of the Révolution Française, it is time to ask serious historiographic questions about what it really represented
July 10, 2021
The wonderful (as unrealized) dream of isonomy
One of the myths of the Enlightenment is that of an equal law for all: today we see that not only is this not true, but that this is the…
July 7, 2021
As many as sixteen thematic museums in the good graces of the Confederation
In the period 2023-2026, Bern will lend a hand with operating contributions to various permanent exhibitions, allocating CHF 6.3 million…
July 6, 2021
North an important informal meeting of EFTA ministers
Swiss President, Guy Parmelin, in Siglufjördur to talk with Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein about tariff-free market, EU and UK
July 5, 2021
Switzerland will test the new electronic voting system
As some cantons will resume testing with Swiss Post's future election computer system, Bern will implement an independent audit
June 1, 2021
Twenty years ago Liechtenstein’s attack on Germany
On June 1, 2001, the Alpine Principality filed an unusual lawsuit with the UN Court of Justice for the use of its assets as war…