Bern, Zurich and Aargau focus on fiscal innovation
Three Swiss cantons with major research clusters, but hitherto "high taxation", will reduce taxes to those who promote research and…
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…
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…
Italy, requested “certain times for differentiated regionalism”
Stefano Bonaccini, president of the Conference of the major public territorial bodies of the Peninsula, pushes to accelerate the process of…
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…
Italy: “On the diversified autonomy, the Government is ready”
The Minister for Regional Affairs sent the draft of the Framework Law on the future management of the Emilians, Lombards and Venetians to…
Italy, the legitimate implementation of differentiated autonomy
A rigorous, multi-level process will allow Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto to reach parliamentary approval of their special requests.
Italy, because differentiated autonomy “is” the Constitution
The initiatives of Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy and Veneto highlight great opportunities for institutions as a whole, as well as for the…
Swiss and Italian politicians discuss the future in Au
On July 17, Marco Chiesa and Piero Marchesi (UDC) and Guido Guidesi and Stefano Gualandris (Lega) explained the advantages of federalism to…
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…
Switzerland “free port” for highly qualified workers
Despite increased payroll tax competition, the burden of Switzerland's 26 cantons, led by Obwalden and Uri, is lower than the 37.9% global…
Even Piedmont has said yes to differentiated regionalism
Majority and opposition agree in Turin on autonomy and a long bouquet of subjects to be obtained, but in respect of a national unity of…
Tuscany joins the train of differentiated autonomy
In October 2019, Florence also began negotiations with the government for a regionalism of its own, but limited to only 10 subjects and…
In Zurich the real “States General” of Italians abroad
Conference of "Swiss Federalism" on December 5 on the political situation of the Belpaese between Europe, requests for autonomy and…