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With wind turbines popping up haphazardly around Switzerland, the time has come for better planning and dialogue to avoid opposition which the machines provoke.
Switzerland is earmarking nearly a billion francs to clean up soil contaminated by heavy metals leached from spent bullets.
The government is pushing ahead with proposed spending cuts to the tune of SFr1.6 billion ($1.56 billion) annually until 2013 to balance the federal budget.
The new federal alcohol law wants to ban happy hours in Swiss bars on Fridays and Saturdays “ a move that has come in for strong criticism.
Re-establishing a more even distribution of federal posts between the four main language regions will be a tough task, admits the new federal multilingual delegate.
Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz has announced his resignation “ the fourth cabinet member to step down before the end of the current legislative term.
Finance Minister Hans-Rudolf Merz has announced his resignation “ the second cabinet member to step down this year.
A court ruling upholding a ban on 24-hour opening hours at petrol station shops has raised questions about Switzerland™s strict Sunday and evening labour laws.
Elections to replace one or possibly two cabinet members will be high on Switzerland™s political agenda in the coming months.
Speculation has been mounting that Switzerland could chalk up a first in its political history “ four to five women in its seven-member cabinet.
Switzerland™s image abroad is too closely tied to the banking sector, says Marina Carobbio Guscetti, a parliamentarian for the Italian-speaking community from Ticino.
Trade unions and centre-left parties have launched a campaign against unemployment insurance reforms as part of their policy to highlight social security issues.
Transport Minister Moritz Leuenberger has announced his resignation for December after 15 years in Switzerland™s multi-party government.
Transport Minister Moritz Leuenberger has announced his resignation for the end of 2010 after 15 years in government.
Revelations by a parliamentary watchdog that the secret service collected data on about 200,000 people might seem like a repeat of a political scandal 20 years ago.
Forced deportation flights of rejected asylum seekers will start again this month, having been suspended following the death of a Nigerian in March.
There was a time when few foreigners were able to obtain a Swiss passport; but now Switzerland has caught up with most other European countries.
Swiss voters will be asked to decide in a nationwide ballot on two proposals to expel foreign criminals, parliament has agreed.
Six months after Switzerland banned the construction of minarets, parliamentarians in canton Aargau want to see a nationwide ban on Islamic full-body veils in public places.
In the early hours of March 11 an inmate in a prison in western Switzerland suffocated in his cell after setting fire to his mattress. Help came too late.
A Swiss organisation representing accident victims and their families hopes to put the brakes on motorists who drive too fast.