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…
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…
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…
That corner of Europe that every six months changes… country
When the Thirty Years' War ended, on November 7, 1659, France and Spain decided that a small island in the Bidasoa River would become a…
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…
This is how Liechtenstein invented the corporate state out of nothing
In 2003, the Principality, nestled between Austria and Switzerland, overturned the constitutional balance between sovereign and citizens…
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…
Athenian democracy? Revive between Glarus and Appenzell…
In two Swiss cantons, the Landsgemeinde, a popular assembly in which citizens vote on government, courts, laws, and expenditures by... a…