During the summer of 2015 there were two packs of wolves spotted in Switzerland, one in canton Ticino and another in the mountains between the cantons of Graubünden and St. Gallen. These recent sightings bring the total number of wolves in Switzerland to less than 40. Although wolves are a...
Catholicism is the major religion of the French-speaking cantons and the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino. Throughout Switzerland there are both Protestant and Catholic youth organizations, labor unions, and women's associations. In addition, the Swiss political parties have been shaped by the ...
Cantons of Switzerland CantonCapitalPopulation (Dec. 31, 2023)[1]AreaOfficial languages ZürichZurich1,605,508668 sq mi (1,729 sq km)German BernBern1,063,5332,301 sq mi ( sq mi (5,960 sq km)German, French LucerneLucerne432,744577 sq mi (1,494 sq km)German ...
11 Between federal and cantonal government there is a kind of job-sharing, as universities and universities of applied science are in charge of the cantons and mainly financed by them. Federal government takes the role of strategic thinking and developing concepts about science, R&D, and ...
The region once boasted around 2,000 hectares (4,900 acres) of vine in the mid 19th Century, when viticulture took off in the area. The region boasts around 20 producers, on both sides of the lake. The southern end of which is divided between the cantons of St.Gallen and Schwyz which...
The fDi rankings for 2025 also include the cities of Geneva, Lugano and Basel in the top ten, in addition to the cantons of Zurich, Zug and Geneva. Basel was named as the small city with the best investment promotion strategy. more Study confirms precision of Liom’s non-invasive ...
Constitutional Change in Swiss Cantons:An Assessment of a Recent Phenomenon". Hanspeter Tschaeni. The Journal of Federalism . 1982Hans Peter Tschaeni, "Constitutional Change in Swiss Cantons: An Assessment of a Recent Phenomenon," Publius 12, no. 1 (1982): 11331....
Towards the end of 2020 SERI and the cantons of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft approved Swiss TPH's new strategy (2021-2024). At the heart of the new strategy are the eight strategic topics (STOs; Table 2), which replaced the former KAAs and reflect Swiss TPH's ability to constantly ...
Institutions and Outcomes of Swiss Federalism: The Role of the Cantons in Swiss Politics The analysis of Swiss federalism today focuses upon the role of the cantons and the strategies they engage in to protect their interests. In the first part... A Vatter,W Linder - Defining the Field of ...
25 binding referendums under the Swiss system of direct democracy could still fail should they not carry a majority of individual cantons as well. In other votes that day, proponents of banning factory farming were narrowly ahead but opponents were gaining ground, arguing that Switzerland already ...