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How young Swiss want their country to improve

This content was published on Apr 29, 2017 Minimum wage for everyone, legalising cannabis, abolishing the arms industry, inclusive and green economy and increasing the permitted speed for mopeds to 40kph (25mph) – these are just a few of the almost 700 proposals collected in five weeks (from 20 February to 25 March) on the engage.chExternal link website in German, French and Italian.…

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Dutch ‘troublemaker’ finally granted Swiss citizenship

This content was published on Apr 28, 2017 Dutch-born Nancy Holten has lived in Switzerland since she was eight, speaks fluent Swiss German, has three children with Swiss passports, has no criminal record, does not claim welfare and is politically active. However, her neighbours in Gipf-Oberfrick a rural commune of 3,500 people in canton Aargau in northern Switzerland twice rejected her application for…

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Entry/Exit

This content was published on Apr 28, 2017 Who needs a visa to come to Switzerland and how long can a tourist stay?

Cabinet makes U-turn on immigration initiative

This content was published on Apr 26, 2017 The government has decided not to present a proposal that would have countered an initiative seeking a reversal on immigration law.

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Religious recognition in Switzerland—a cantonal affair

This content was published on Apr 26, 2017 A multicultural society is often a multi-religious one. How can Switzerland best manage its growing diversity and the frictions which can arise?

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Re-thinking US election primaries in the Trump era

This content was published on Apr 25, 2017 Geoffrey Cowan is a lawyer, professor of communication and author of the book “Let the People Rule: Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of the Presidential Primary”. The following text was first published by the History News NetworkExternal link of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences at George Washington University. It was more than a…

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Stark choices seen in French election

This content was published on Apr 24, 2017 Swiss newspapers characterised the result of the first round of France’s presidential election as a choice between very different futures.

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Media pounces on the wrong issues

This content was published on Apr 22, 2017 A reform of the corporate tax system, which the Swiss rejected in February, was one of these particularly thorny issues. Apart from finance experts, nobody really knew the precise contents of the proposal. Not even Peter Wanner, chairman of the AZ Medien publishing house with several regional in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. During a…

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Readers react to ‘outrageous’ burka ban article

This content was published on Apr 21, 2017 swissinfo.ch readers weigh in on whether direct democracy leads to a majority of society oppressing religious minorities.

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Counting on Swiss energy

This content was published on Apr 19, 2017 Switzerland will produce more secure, cleaner and cheaper energy as a result of the Energy Strategy 2050.

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