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33 days. That’s how long it took for Michele Bachmann to become Swiss, via her husband.
In 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.
Tomorrow is election day in Switzerland. Again. But this one is special because it will produce a new government (finally).
Switzerland swings to the left! Now that the last results of the Swiss parliamentary elections are in the final picture is clear – and it’ ...
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.
Election posters went up today all over Bern, and no doubt elsewhere across Switzerland.
Three weeks ago he had a clear lead. Today that was cut to just a few thousand but it was still enough to win. Canton Bern’s newest member of the ...
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 ...