Four Noes and a Yes: voting in a Swiss referendum
September 23, 2020, 1 Comment
I’ve just voted for the first time as a Swiss citizen. Actually it was for the first five times as there were...
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I’ve just voted for the first time as a Swiss citizen. Actually it was for the first five times as there were...
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So that was 2017. While the rest of the world was convulsed by Brexit and Trump, Macron and Merkel, Isis and Irma,...
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The Swiss understand referendums. They have to because they have one every few months not every few years. And they can be...
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Scotland is everywhere at the moment in Switzerland, and not just on the news.
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Einstein, Nestlé, Hayek, Maggi. None of them was born Swiss. Even Switzerland’s newest Olympic gold medallist, Dario Cologna, was initially Italian
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This week ballot papers are landing in post boxes all across Switzerland. That’s right: it’s referendum time. Again.
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