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Think tank: give foreigners local voting rights

This content was published on Sep 8, 2015 A Swiss think tank is urging Switzerland to give foreigners greater voting rights at the local level, such as allowing foreign residents to stand for local political office. Such a measure will help integration, it argues.

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Why a citizen’s parliament chosen by lot would be ‘perfect’

This content was published on Sep 8, 2015 They would only serve for a short session until the next citizens’ jury took over. This article is a response to Liu Junning’s recently published opinion piece (see below), in which he labelled direct democracy “impractical”. Direct democracy is the subject of much criticism: it’s not very creative to just be permitted to say yes or…

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New Zealand’s democratic deficit

This content was published on Sep 4, 2015 In 1893 New Zealand debated having a constitutional framework similar to Switzerland. Although never enacted, a referendum bill was introduced to parliament. However, the bill only provided for non-binding, government-controlled referendums – or in other words, plebiscites. This bill was again re-introduced in 1918, but failed. A statutory provision for constitutional referendums was provided for…

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Cabinet urges rejection of banking secrecy initiative

This content was published on Aug 26, 2015 The Swiss cabinet has urged parliament to reject an initiative aimed at maintaining banking secrecy for domestic private bank clients. In recent years, Switzerland’s much-vaunted tradition of banking secrecy has been under constant pressure.

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‘The Young Generation will Change Ukraine’

This content was published on Aug 24, 2015 Could Bohdan Hawrylyshyn ever have imagined, when he left his native Ukraine at age 20, what a successful career he would have and how he would influence global economic and political processes? Probably not, but that’s what happened. During the Second World War he ended up in Germany, after which he emigrated to Canada. Since…

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Swiss court dismisses calls for TV/radio vote recount

This content was published on Aug 19, 2015 The Swiss Federal Court has rejected calls for a recount of the June vote to reform Switzerland’s public radio and television funding system - the closest ever in Swiss history.

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If you want the Olympics, do not ask the people

This content was published on Aug 17, 2015 “And the winner is … Beijing.” This summer’s announcement by the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Thomas Bach, of the hosts of the 2022 Winter Games was met around the world by a large sigh. Staging the world’s biggest winter sports event in a smog-ridden megalopolis without any snow and a record of…

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Citizen participation takes root in the village

This content was published on Aug 16, 2015 At the end of May, some 30 people met in the parish hall of a municipality of some 7,000 inhabitants situated on a hillside in the Lake Geneva region. They were responding to the call of a movement born one month earlier and baptised Mount Citizen: Democracy – Solidarity – Ecology. The goal of the…

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‘Democracy does not fall from the sky’

This content was published on Aug 15, 2015 Speaking in Geneva at this year’s congress of the Swiss abroad, Leuthard stressed the importance of civic education to uphold democracy and the role of the expatriate community to give an outside perspective on Switzerland. Schools, teachers with a passion for civic education as well as quality media and the internet play a central part…

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