Cluster: Democracy

Brexit needs parliament OK but citizens have no say

This content was published on Jan 24, 2017 Tuesday’s final decision of the Supreme CourtExternal link not to allow the government to trigger the Exit-clause of the EU treaties brings some constitutional clarity about how to implement last June’s vote on Brexit. In brief: There must be a vote by the British parliament to trigger the next step of Brexit (the two-year negotiations with…

Democracy

A new Nelson Mandela in Davos?

This content was published on Jan 20, 2017 Grenville-Grey was one of more than 30 young people from all over the world invited to Switzerland to meet each other and confront political and business leaders in Davos. A co-author of the declaration, Grenville-Grey was born in London in 1992 to parents who had left South Africa for political reasons. Four years after the…

Democracy

Vast majority of voters against nuclear power

This content was published on Jan 19, 2017 Three out of four Swiss citizens are against nuclear power plants according to a new study.

Democracy

Swiss voters to decide on energy strategy

This content was published on Jan 19, 2017 Voters will have their say on Switzerland’s new energy strategy that would gradually phase out the nation’s five nuclear power plants.

Democracy

‘Most important office in a democracy is the citizen’

This content was published on Jan 18, 2017 Here are some extracts from the January 10 speech, compiled by the democracy platform people2 power. Change of power “In ten days the world will witness a hallmark of our democracy. The peaceful transfer of power from one freely elected president to the next. I committed to President-Elect Trump that my administration would ensure the…

Democracy

Anti-predator initiative finds strong support

This content was published on Jan 17, 2017 Thousands of people are calling for canton Valais in western Switzerland to be a predator-free zone. Their initiative specifically targets the wolf, the lynx and the bear.

Democracy

Political researchers reach out to broad audience

This content was published on Jan 16, 2017 A flurry of more than 20 articles marked the inauguration of the website timed to coincide with the run up to the 2015 parliamentary elections. More than 15 months later, Georg Lutz, professor of political science at Lausanne University, looks back at more than 170 publications with a sense of achievement and satisfaction. “We succeeded…

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Democracy

The Future of democracy: Nice talk and ugly games

This content was published on Jan 12, 2017 However, these are smaller dams in a much, much larger river. Here is a fact you rarely hear: Never before in history have so many individual people had a say in popular votes as they did last year, in 2016. According to the think-tank Freedom HouseExternal link last year 40% of the global population lived in “free”…

Democracy

Poll finds sufficient backing for tax reform

This content was published on Jan 6, 2017 A major reform of Switzerland’s corporate tax system stands a good chance of winning approval by voters next month.

Democracy

When local voters say: ‘Not in my own backyard’

This content was published on Jan 3, 2017 Two examples from the past year may help illustrate the dilemma. In November, four mountain villages threw out a plan for a major park in the southeast of the country. Five months earlier – and further north – voters in two cantons rejected a CHF10 million ($9.8 million) credit, disappointing supporters in a third canton,…

Cluster: Democracy

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