“Prize for Federalism” 2021: finalists selected
The fifty or so very different applications from various parts of Switzerland that were in the running for the CHF 10,000 from the…
The “von Wattenwyl talks” and the search for a compromise
Since February 1970 in the "old town" of Bern, the Federal Councillors have been meeting with the leaders of the parties in the Executive…
Damian Elsig new head of the Swiss National Library
The newly appointed director of the NL will take office Aug. 16, succeeding Marie-Christine Doffey, who has led the institution since 2005…
In Basel on 27-28 May the “Conference on Federalism”
The intersection of the Swiss system of power-sharing and dynamism is the theme of the sixth tri- or quadrennial happening expected in the…
More relief and less regulation for Swiss companies
On April 28, the Federal Council launched the consultation procedures for a law intended to streamline bureaucracy and relaunch EasyGov
Coronavirus: additional credits of CHF 614 million
The Swiss government's effort to combat the epidemic rises to 23.5 billion under four new measures: ACT-A, drugs, culture and events
Binding minimum wages for workers posted from the EU
Federal Council adopts message and bill to revise benchmark wage regulations for Union-based firms
One in eight residents in the cantons of Schwyz and Zug is a millionaire
According to an article in the periodical "SonntagsBlick, two central Swiss states have been able to make the most of tax competition with…
In Switzerland 82.1 billion francs of health expenditure
In 2019, the increase in the health system's outlay was 2.3 percent: 1.8 billion more in cost, but lower than the five-year average (2.8)
Extremism in the army: only 39 “cases” in Switzerland
Seventy-three percent of the counseling requests and leads noted in the Schweizer Armee, while negligible, involved alleged "right-wing"…
Full video, “The secret gateway to Switzerland”
Andrea Schenone, president of the "Swiss Federalism" association, explained what the federal government can offer in an EVE Elite Value…
Public transportation in pandemic time under the lens
Those responsible for public transport in Switzerland and the cantons discussed the effects of the crisis resulting from COVID19 on the…
SFIVET is on its way to full academic status
In 2022, the Federal College of Applied Sciences in Zollikofen, attended by 16,000 people a year ago, will be even more attractive
Aargau, Geneva and Ticino in the foreign test on voting by mail
For the June 13 round, the 1,600 residents of Australia, Brazil and Thailand will receive half ballots from the motherland and half from…
Switzerland will “modernize” agricultural trade with Israel
The Federal Council enacted the amendments to the ordinance on the sale and purchase of agricultural products with Tel Aviv resulting from…
Innovation Park East in the Swiss National Circuit
Government approval for the Lerchenfeld and Buchs Campus facilities, supported by the cantons of St. Gallen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden and…