Federal Council approves Swiss Green Fintech network
State Secretariat for International Financial Matters aims for close collaboration among Swiss experts in digital technology and capital…
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…
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…
Here’s why Switzerland needs to invest more in startups
The Confederation has all the means to imagine itself as the new "Unicorn Nation", as long as it shuns the stigma of failure and thinks…
In 2025 Nidwalden will be the best “tax haven” in the world
The canton with capital Stans, co-founder of Switzerland more than 700 years ago, will take over from Hong Kong the palm of the "lightest"…
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…
Umbrella law will adapt Swiss law to blockchain
Yes of the Swiss Parliament on September 25 to update ten federal regulations to encourage developments in all distributed ledger…
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…
New blood and more initiatives for the Swiss Startup Association
The association, chaired by Raphael Tobler, will promote the interests of innovative Swiss companies and the topic of entrepreneurship in…
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…
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…