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Swiss abroad submit petition over e-voting

This content was published on Nov 30, 2018 The Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA) has handed in a petition calling for electronic voting to be made available to all overseas Swiss by 2021.

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Why Swiss expats vote differently when they go abroad

This content was published on Oct 9, 2018 Ties between Switzerland and the EU are the main concern of expat Swiss citizens who took part in a poll ahead of the 2019 parliamentary elections.

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Swiss cities in the USA

This content was published on Sep 14, 2018 Did you know that Lake Geneva, Zurich and Bern are also names of places in the United States? Find out where and why!

Swiss Abroad angered by proposed social benefits cuts

This content was published on Feb 26, 2018 The Social Security Committee of the House of Representatives wants to restrict access to supplementary benefits for returning expats.

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Pierre-Yves Donzé: from a ‘cosmopolitan nation’ to Japan

This content was published on May 15, 2017 Pierre-Yves Donzé comes from La Chaux-de-Fonds and became a professor of economic history in Osaka. His specialty: the watch industry.

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Expats rate Uganda more attractive than Switzerland

This content was published on Aug 29, 2016 The alpine nation continues to tumble down the rankings in the 67-country Expat Insider surveyExternal link, “The World Through Expat Eyes”, published on Monday. Overall, Switzerland has fallen from fourth place in 2014 to 14th in 2015 to 31st this year. This drop of 17 places made it one of the online survey’s “biggest losers”,…

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When being away from home is still home

This content was published on Aug 7, 2016

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Escaping the golden cage

This content was published on Aug 5, 2016 Portraits of Swiss living abroad

How to encourage citizens to participate in politics

This content was published on Aug 14, 2015 The slogan for the congress in Geneva – which elected Remo Gysin as its new president and adopted a resolution to push for e-voting for about 55,000 registered Swiss citizens abroad – is hardly a coincidence: Civic education: Guarantee for a living democracy. In a country with a rich tradition of public votes, and only nine weeks ahead of the…

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Swiss winemakers find heavenly spot near Cape

This content was published on Jun 7, 2010 The last stretch of the drive to the vineyards of Jean-Claude Martin and Christoph Kaser is a reddish-brown dirt road. A gate with the South African flag – and a smaller Swiss one – indicates the entrance to the Creation Wines estate, a few kilometres inland from the quaint coastal town of Hermanus. It is…

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