All posts in Swiss politics
In Zug it was last month, in Neuchatel it’s next week: Tax Freedom Day.
Election time in the city of Bern
Smaller than in America, fairer than in China: elections are being held in Bern on Sunday.
The (almost) Swiss President of the United States
President’s Obama’s right little toe is Swiss, or at least a small part of him is: 1/256th to be exact.
Switzerland’s blood money
Grenades in Syria. Tanks in Bahrain. Bullets in Libya. All Swiss made.
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A tale of two citizenships
May 9, 2012, 20 Comments33 days. That’s how long it took for Michele Bachmann to become Swiss, via her husband.
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Should the price of books be fixed?
February 15, 2012, 12 CommentsCartels, fixed prices, less competition, consumer loses out. It may sound like something from the Seventies
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Three dangerous words for Mitt Romney
January 27, 2012, 11 CommentsSwiss bank account. Three words that could de-rail the campaign of the richest man ever to try and buy the Presidency of the USA.
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Habemus Bundesrat! A new Swiss government.
December 15, 2011, 1 CommentIn Britain we say that the first sign of old age is the policemen start to look young. In Switzerland I’m sure the same goes for the Bundesrat.
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Electing a new Swiss government
December 13, 2011, 1 CommentTomorrow is election day in Switzerland. Again. But this one is special because it will produce a new government (finally).
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Swiss elections: the final stage
December 4, 2011, 3 CommentsSwitzerland swings to the left! Now that the last results of the Swiss parliamentary elections are in the final picture is clear – and it’s not a good one for ...
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Swiss election results: xenophobia 0 commonsense 1
October 24, 2011, 31 Comments -
Dead famous in Switzerland
September 15, 2010, 29 Comments -
A beginner’s guide to Swissness
June 4, 2010, 28 Comments -
Meet Homo helveticus
October 3, 2011, 26 Comments -
A writer’s dream: giving up the day job
May 13, 2011, 24 Comments
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A vote to the death in Bern
May 10, 2013, No comments -
Swiss prices give me indigestion
May 4, 2013, 9 Comments -
Where in Switzerland is this?
April 19, 2013, 14 Comments -
The old ad men of Switzerland
April 7, 2013, 1 Comment -
Inside the modern Alpine chic hotel
March 28, 2013, No comments
