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Today in Switzerland: A roundup of the latest news on Thursday: MPs seek to help people living on minimum subsistence re-calculate their income; demand for ...
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Today in Switzerland: A roundup of the latest news on Thursday
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Is Sunday shopping about to become reality in Switzerland?: The National Council has voted to allow certain types of retailers to open on Sunday ...
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Is Sunday shopping about to become reality in Switzerland?
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Despite climate protection: Ruedi Noser charters cruise ship for entire workforce
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Despite climate protection: Ruedi Noser charters cruise ship for entire ...
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Couples who live in a registered partnership and complete a joint tax return sometimes have to pay higher taxes than unmarried couples with the same annual ... Show more
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Today in Switzerland: A roundup of the latest news on Thursday: More protection for foreign domestic abuse victims; Geneva healthcare workers may have to do ...
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Today in Switzerland: A roundup of the latest news on Thursday
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Why Switzerland is set to build a rail tunnel along Lake Geneva: Swiss MPs have green-lighted the construction of a 9-kilometre-long railway tunnel between two ...
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Why Switzerland is set to build a rail tunnel along Lake Geneva
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Today in Switzerland: A roundup of the latest news on Wednesday: Cross-border workers to pay higher health insurance premiums; the prices of land in Zurich stops ...
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Today in Switzerland: A roundup of the latest news on Wednesday
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Swiss National Council votes to deepen cooperation with Taiwan: National Council wants to establish bilateral partnership in culture, education, research ...
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Swiss National Council votes to deepen cooperation with Taiwan
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Protection of whistleblowers: National Council votes against new whistleblower template
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Protection of whistleblowers: National Council votes against new ...
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Rail traffic on Lake Zurich: National Council approves 100 million for Meilibachtunnel
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Rail traffic on Lake Zurich: National Council approves 100 million for ...
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Today in Switzerland: A roundup of the latest news on Monday: Moves to raise child allowances are underway in parliament; experts warn Switzerland's housing ...
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Today in Switzerland: A roundup of the latest news on Monday
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News: Council of States probably scuttles tonnage tax: On Monday, the Council of States Economic Commission spoke out against the tonnage tax ...
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News: Council of States probably scuttles tonnage tax
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Today in Switzerland: A roundup of the latest news on Wednesday: Foreigners break Zurich's population record, more measles cases detected in Switzerland; and ...
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Today in Switzerland: A roundup of the latest news on Wednesday
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Switzerland set to allow double surnames again: Since 2013, double-barrelled surnames have not been permitted in Switzerland, but this rule looks set to be ...
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Switzerland set to allow double surnames again
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Eight unwritten rules that explain how Switzerland works: Having trouble understanding Switzerland and the Swiss? These unwritten rules - some of which are more ...
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Eight unwritten rules that explain how Switzerland works
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Ban on racist symbols: Parliament and its big fight with the swastika: Should Switzerland ban Nazi symbols? An endless series from the Federal Palace that has ...
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Ban on racist symbols: Parliament and its big fight with the swastika
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Will Swiss MPs no longer be allowed to have dual nationality?: Currently, 23 members of parliament — nearly 10 percent — are dual citizens of Switzerland and ...
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Will Swiss MPs no longer be allowed to have dual nationality?
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CO₂ law: politicians want to make petrol more expensive: The National Council will discuss the new Climate Protection Act on Wednesday. The Federal Council wants ...
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CO₂ law: politicians want to make petrol more expensive
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Council of States on freedom of the press: ideas that endanger journalism: The small chamber has the Federal Council examine measures that would severely ...
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Council of States on freedom of the press: ideas that endanger journalism
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Illness endometriosis: She only leaves the house with painkillers: Every tenth woman is affected - Presenter Gülsha Adilji only received the diagnosis after 15 ...
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Illness endometriosis: She only leaves the house with painkillers
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Today in Switzerland: A roundup of the latest news on Tuesday: Authorities want to know where every resident of Switzerland lives; tardiness of German trains ...
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Today in Switzerland: A roundup of the latest news on Tuesday
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Child care: Time game in the Council of States
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Child care: Time game in the Council of States
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They are still underrepresented in what is now a full parliament: Secondos and Primeras. Yet people with an international history can be found everywhere else ... Show more
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Franziska Roth (SP) will represent the canton of Solothurn in the Council of States alongside Pirmin Bischof (center) in the coming legislative period ... Show more
Quick Glance: Solothurn Cantonal Council Elections: Roth Wins Against Imark
  • Franziska Roth (SP) is the new representative for Solothurn in the Cantonal Council.

  • Christian Imark (SVP) received significantly fewer votes.
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Who is Beat Jans, Switzerland's new Federal Council minister?: Swiss parliament has elected a socialist from Basel, Beat Jans, to replace the outgoing head of ...
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Who is Beat Jans, Switzerland's new Federal Council minister?
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Imputed rental value: Politics is having a hard time: National- and the Council of States agree that they want to tax owner-occupied residential property ...
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Imputed rental value: Politics is having a hard time
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Swiss hard right chief stepping down after elections triumph: Marco Chiesa said Thursday he was stepping down as head of the hard right Swiss People's Party ...
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Swiss hard right chief stepping down after elections triumph
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Winter session in the ticker - Eva Herzog is the new President of the Council of States | SP politician Eric Nussbaumer elected highest Swiss citizen
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Winter session in the ticker - Eva Herzog is the new President of the ...
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With the decisions in the cantons of Aargau, Solothurn, Zurich, Schaffhausen and Ticino, all 46 seats in the Council of States are now distributed ... Show more
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The up- and relegated Swiss politics in 2023.: Which Swiss personalities stood out particularly positively or negatively in 2023?
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The up- and relegated Swiss politics in 2023.
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The army abolitionists: Is the GSoA really “completely wrong”?: “Completely wrong,” says SVP Council of States and Army Colonel Werner Salzmann ...
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The army abolitionists: Is the GSoA really “completely wrong”?
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“The end of investigative journalism”: freedom of the press in the National Council and the Council of States
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“The end of investigative journalism”: freedom of the press in the ...
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The Sünneli even burns popular candidates: Why the SVP is becoming a victim of its own success - Zofinger Tagblatt
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The Sünneli even burns popular candidates: Why the SVP is becoming a ...
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Entrance fee for immigrants: FDP Council of States launches explosive idea - Zofinger Tagblatt
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Entrance fee for immigrants: FDP Council of States launches explosive idea ...
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Marianne Binder (center) will represent the canton of Aargau in the Council of States alongside Thierry Burkart (FDP) in the next legislative period ... Show more
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"A slap in the face!" FDP National Councilor Jauslin causes red heads with a tweet against Giezendanner - Zofinger Tagblatt
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There have been numerous leaks in the context of the Federal Council's Covid-19 business. This is shown by an analysis of the parliamentary supervision ... Show more
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“Dear Councilors, do you really want that?”: The Council of States agrees to a postulate that could severely restrict media freedom. It doesn't work that way ...
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“Dear Councilors, do you really want that?”
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Today in Austria: A roundup of the latest news on Friday: The medical association calls for free masks and tests, Switzerland wants to renegotiate the migration ...
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Today in Austria: A roundup of the latest news on Friday
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Swiss Election Runoffs Counter Right-Wing Gains: Switzerland’s left and centrist parties secured surprise wins in runoffs for the upper house of parliament ...
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Swiss Election Runoffs Counter Right-Wing Gains
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Today in Switzerland: A roundup of the latest news on Thursday: Negotiations are underway to stave off a strike at Geneva airport; tenants hit a setback in the ...
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Today in Switzerland: A roundup of the latest news on Thursday
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Asylum law for Afghan women: Politics and the judiciary disagree: To the great delight of aid organizations, the Federal Administrative Court wants to generally ...
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Asylum law for Afghan women: Politics and the judiciary disagree
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Freedom of movement for all Muslim women: The Federal Administrative Court approves asylum for two Afghan women - and thus drives the parliament properly into ...
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Freedom of movement for all Muslim women: The Federal Administrative Court ...
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Expansion of rail traffic: Council of States wants 100 million for new rail tunnel on Lake Zurich
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Expansion of rail traffic: Council of States wants 100 million for new ...
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Overall results of the National Council and Council of States elections: How this election will now play out
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Overall results of the National Council and Council of States elections: ...
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Thierry Burkart wants to make rich families happy: The Council of States wants to lift the ban on maintenance foundations. Why this should particularly please ...
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Thierry Burkart wants to make rich families happy
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The extra sausage ensures the next extra round in the rental value - Zofinger Tagblatt
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The extra sausage ensures the next extra round in the rental value - ...
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Council of States is letting women down: research into endometriosis is not being funded more - Zofinger Tagblatt
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Council of States is letting women down: research into endometriosis is ...
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Jans, Cassis and a quiet Jositsch: The three most important findings about the Federal Council election - Zofinger Tagblatt
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Jans, Cassis and a quiet Jositsch: The three most important findings about ...
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Almost no women in management: the HWZ business school is criticized for its lack of women. SP Councillor of States Daniel Jositsch is also partly responsible ... Show more
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The new Schaffhausen Council of States member Simon Stocker (also) lives in Zurich. Is that legal? Is that legitimate? - The World Week
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The new Schaffhausen Council of States member Simon Stocker (also) lives ...
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Council of States: No research for 200,000 women: The Council of States rejected a motion that called for research into endometriosis. But the Federal Council is ...
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Council of States: No research for 200,000 women
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Switzerland votes: All results of the Council of States elections: All results of the second round of voting for the Council of States in the cantons of Geneva ...
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Switzerland votes: All results of the Council of States elections
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Switzerland set to allow double surnames again: Since 2013, double-barrelled surnames have not been permitted in Switzerland, but this rule looks set to be ...
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Switzerland set to allow double surnames again
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Alain Berset looks back: “Politics is not my only purpose in life” - Freiburger Nachrichten
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Alain Berset looks back: “Politics is not my only purpose in life” - ...
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67 new members of Parliament took up their new positions in the National Assembly on Monday, December 4th. or Council of States ... Show more
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For today, the Council of States has been counted - 31 of the 46 seats have been allocated. A second round of voting will take place in 10 cantons ... Show more
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“Like the first day of school” - This is what happened to Simon Stocker before his swearing in
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“Like the first day of school” - This is what happened to Simon Stocker ...