Popular vote on 15 May 2022
On 15 May 2022, Swiss citizens will vote on the following three issues: Amendment of the Film Act, Amendment of the law on transplants,…
Every third innovation promoted by Innosuisse represents a novelty on the world market
Studies by Innosuisse show that the funding used quickly benefits the Swiss economy and the implementation of projects in the market…
Conference “Italophonie and the role of public service media”
Analysis of the situation of Italian in the context of Swiss plurilingualism considering: the demographic and sociolinguistic aspect, the…
Excellent bilateral relations between Switzerland and Liechtenstein
Relations between Switzerland and the Principality of Liechtenstein are excellent, and the two countries are bound by strong ties of…
Sechseläuten – Zurich’s spring festival
Sechseläuten (Sächsilüüte in Zurich German) is a festival with a 100-year tradition celebrating the beginning of spring in Zurich, held…
The alpine season as candidate for the intangible cultural heritage of UNESCO
An emblematic tradition of mountain areas, the alpine season could soon be inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural…
State Secretary Hirayama’s working visit to Czech Republic
On March 29, 2022, Martina Hirayama, Secretary of State for Education, Research and Innovation, will meet with Czech Minister of Education,…
Swiss Earnings Structure Survey (ESS) 2020
In 2020, the median wage of a full-time job in the Swiss economy as a whole (private and public sector) was CHF 6665 gross per month. The…
Alpine Convention
The Alpine Convention was the first international treaty in the world to consider a transnational mountain area in its entirety
Rumantsch: a language to discover
Romansh (Rumantsch, Romontsch, Rumauntsch) is the fourth national language of Switzerland and is spoken in the trilingual canton of…
Rapperswil-Hurden wooden bridge
The wooden bridge "Holzbrücke" is a footbridge between Rapperswil (Canton St. Gallen) and Hurden (Canton Schwyz) located near the so-called…
Andrea Schenone pushes “Swiss Federalism” at “La Res Publica”
The president of the well-known association based in Gommiswald was interviewed on the topics of Switzerland, direct democracy and…
Cohesion between town and country has strengthened in Switzerland
The 2016-2023 multi-year program of the New Regional Policy (NPR) already makes an important contribution to the development of the…
COVID-19: Measures to restore Switzerland’s freedom
The Federal Council revokes the measures in force until the end of March, except for the isolation and the mask requirement on transport…
COVID: two different hypotheses of “end of restrictions” in Switzerland
Away with quarantine and mandatory telecommuting as of Feb. 3, but the Federal Council could already send the pandemic to the archives by…
Gianluca Tirozzi: “This is how bitCorp will conquer metaspace!”
Confrontation with the co-founder of a cutting-edge security computing startup, working on a "low cost" quantum PC