Support for scrapping Switzerland’s imputed rent, a fictional rent added to home owners' taxable income, looks to be fading, ...

Switzerland’s government is considering forcing cantons to keep teaching a second national language in primary schools. The Federal Council said on September 19th that it would draft a law to that eff ...

Switzerland’s federal government must save CHF 2.4 billion in 2027 and CHF 3 billion in both 2028 and 2029. On Friday the Federal Council sent its austerity plan to parliament, reported RTS. The Counc ...

Switzerland’s Council of States has rejected a popular initiative on subsidised childcare but endorsed a watered-down ...

Most Swiss are not keen on blanket 30km/h limits in urban areas. A new poll by YouGov, commissioned by the Touring Club ...

This week, Switzerland’s lower house has narrowly backed a temporary VAT rise to finance the country’s new 13th month of ...

Swiss households on average will pay a little less for electricity next year—but the relief will be uneven. Average tariffs ...

Guy Parmelin, Switzerland’s economics minister, has travelled to Washington to present a revised proposal aimed at ending a ...

Zurich is the latest German-speaking Swiss canton to question Switzerland’s policy of teaching French from the first years of ...

Finding a home in Switzerland is getting harder. For the fifth year in a row the share of vacant flats has fallen, slipping to 1%. In other words, 99% of the country’s housing stock is now occupied. T ...