In a country with four official languages and 26 cantons, federalism is a principle deeply rooted in the people and political ...

A federal initiative seeking to ensure the primacy of Swiss national law over international law failed to garner the ...

The term does not appear anywhere in the Swiss Federal Constitution, yet it is omnipresent: emergency law. If it had fallen into oblivion after the Second World War, it has become normal again ...

Swiss lawmakers voted Wednesday in favour of enshrining cash in the country's constitution as mobile and card payments have taken a dominant position. The lawmakers in the lower house of ...

The “Safeguarding Swiss Neutrality” (neutrality initiative ... Neutrality would become a rigid concept enshrined in the Federal Constitution, allowing no latitude. It would no longer be ...

The Swiss Federal Chancellery has formally registered the “Bitcoin initiative”. That means the committee behind the proposal ...