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33 days. That’s how long it took for Michele Bachmann to become Swiss, via her husband.
Now that the last seat in the National Council has been filled (see below), attention switches to the Council of States.
Swiss politics became the ultimate soufflé yesterday: full of hot air and with the middle rising nicely.
On Sunday Switzerland votes for a new parliament. But Swiss elections aren’t like most others.
Election posters went up today all over Bern, and no doubt elsewhere across Switzerland.
This Sunday there’s a by-election in Canton Bern that wouldn’t normally get too much coverage, even in a country that lives, eats and breathes politics. It’s the second round of ...
Public spaces and squares all across Bern are currently hosting a new form of street furniture: large metal stands, each shaped like a capital A and plastered with posters. That ...