Swiss voters have decisively rejected a call to require women to do national service in the military, civil protection teams ...

The Haven Strategy Is Intact Switzerland has long sold something money cannot easily buy elsewhere: institutional continuity.

A so-called "super-rich tax proposal" to impose a 50% inheritance tax on the wealthy in Switzerland was rejected by an ...

View of Lugano from San Salvatore. It’s all too easy to forget Switzerland, that enigmatic, self-possessed confederation of states, or “cantons,” ...

Switzerland’s recent referendum illustrates this dynamic clearly. A proposal to create a federal inheritance tax on very ...

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While the extension of compulsory service received less than 20 per cent support in many cantons, the debate on wealth tax ...

Lucerne would be only the second canton to lower the voting age. In 2007 canton Glarus became the only canton to vote in favour of a voting age of 16. The constitutional initiative was launched by the ...

ZUG, Switzerland—Low taxes have long given Switzerland a strong hand in the battle to lure the operations of big multinational companies. Now, an intramural war is on in which individual Swiss states ...

As a resident of the Geneva, the volatile weekend in Switzerland hit quite close to home. In fact, the burning cars and smashed shop windows that marked Saturday’s major protests against the WTO were ...