In Rome the powers of a Region: bill at the start
On Thursday, March 11, the Constitutional Affairs Committee began examining a bipartisan DDL on reform and ordinary laws on Italy's capital…
Law against facial dissimulation: the ball passes to the cantons
The Federal Bureau of Justice will assist states, which have two years to do so, in drafting at the local level the implementing rule for…
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…
The Swiss people and cantons liquidate the burqa and niqab
51.2 percent of Swiss voters and 20 out of 26 federal states approved the "Yes to a ban on facial concealment" initiative in the March 7…
It is “contact” between Kingdom of Bahrain and Milton Friedman Institute
Alessandro Bertoldi and Adriano Teresi, also CEO and Head of International Relations of AB Group, met in Rome Ambassador Naser Al Belooshi
Karin Keller-Sutter’s journey to the divided city of Moutier
Ahead of the March 28 vote, the head of the Federal Department of Justice saw the City Council and the cantonal authorities of Bern and…
The Presidency of the Helvetic Confederation from 1848 to the present day
Brief history of the highest office provided for by the Swiss Federal Constitution, assigned from time to time to the most senior Councilor…
Hurray for the first “Romancia Week” in Swiss history!
Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis, together with the government of Chur, launches the inaugural "Emna Rumantscha" dedicated to the fourth…
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…
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…
That isolated Russian flag on a remote peak of the Alps
A monument in the canton of Uri commemorates the troops of General Alexander Suvorov, who on September 25, 1799, sacrificed themselves…
Schwyz and Glarus, Lost Semicantons of Swiss History
Until the Sonderbund War, the separation between conservatives and liberals in the Swabian region of Germany and between Protestants and…
Three states divided in half, but with the same dignity as the others
Although with half the federal representation, Obwalden, Nidwalden, Basel City and Country, and Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Appenzell…
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…