When the Swiss village of Albinen offered to pay people to move there, the world took notice. The mountain village was literally buried in an avalanche of applications. Now the authorities have…
Switzerland is a country of consistent federalism, where the federal subjects (cantons) have the broadest rights of autonomy. They also grant citizenship rights in Switzerland. This means that in…
Switzerland's unemployment rate, continuing to decline, has reached a record low of 2.4%. At first glance, this is excellent news, but not everything is as good as one might hope. In reality, any…
Swiss parents are in no hurry to send their children to kindergartens, which threatens to undermine all state efforts aimed at ensuring that the country's children begin their education at the age of…
At first glance, castles look romantic and fairy-tale-like: knights, ladies, tournaments, and all that. However, on second glance, the situation turns out to be far less conducive to romance. The…
Switzerland has released a new generation of topographic maps of Swiss regions in a modern vector cartographic format at a scale of 1:50,000. The new vector maps for tourists and travelers are…
Switzerland still remains a country where workers, compared to other OECD countries, are least burdened by taxes and social contributions. Only three out of 35 countries can boast an even more modest…
In Switzerland, a simplified naturalization procedure has been in effect for three months for young foreigners of the third generation, i.e., grandchildren of migrants who were already born in…
Switzerland is a truly multilingual country. In addition to the four national languages (standard German, Italian, French, and Romansh), there are countless dialects that together form 'Swiss…
Refugees and 'temporarily admitted' persons should integrate faster into the Swiss labor market. The federal government and cantons are ready to pay an additional 132 million francs per year for…
Several years ago, Switzerland adopted in a referendum the 'initiative against criminal foreigners' launched by the conservative Swiss People's Party (SVP), which demanded the immediate deportation…
According to rough estimates, about 76,000 people currently live illegally in Switzerland, with 13,000 of them in the canton of Geneva alone. A year ago, the cantonal authorities launched a pilot…