Graubuenden Communes Sketch a Second-Home Tax They Do Not Yet Have
The legal tool is still a September question. The village arithmetic is already a Tuesday meeting.
February 2025
14 posts in the February 2025 file.
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Friday, 21 February 2025
Federal Council Briefs Parties on the Draft EU Package
The file has a new name every year. This winter it is a package, and the fight is already about the ballot question.
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Basel-Stadt Budget Debate Turns on Pharma Tax and Trams
The smallest canton lives on large invoices. The budget debate is about how visibly to admit that.
Friday, 14 February 2025
Valais Resorts Call Mid-February Snow Adequate, Not Generous
The high glaciers did their job. The village postcards still needed a careful crop.
Wednesday, 12 February 2025
Human Rights Council Brings February Traffic Back to the Palais
Carnival week in Basel is drums. February in Geneva is badge queues and a speaking clock.
Tuesday, 11 February 2025
Basel Cortege Rolls After Two Nights of Piccolo and Snow
The morning after Morgenstreich is not a rest day. It is a parade with sore feet and better light.
Monday, 10 February 2025
Business Groups Treat Environmental No as a Closed File
The no was wide enough that trade associations spent Monday talking about orders, not about a recount.
Basel Fasnacht Starts at 4 a.m. With Morgenstreich
At four in the morning the drums took over a city that had spent Sunday counting ballot papers.
Sunday, 9 February 2025
Voters Reject Environmental Responsibility Initiative by a Wide Margin
Swiss voters said no, in every canton, to a Green-backed text that would have rewritten economic policy around ecological limits.
Polling Stations Open on a Quiet Vote Sunday Before Fasnacht
The country voted on planetary limits while half of Basel was saving its energy for 4 a.m.
Saturday, 8 February 2025
Campaigns Fall Silent as Environmental Ballot Papers Sit in Kitchens
By Saturday afternoon the arguments were leftovers. The envelopes on the table would do the deciding.
Friday, 7 February 2025
Basel Hotels Fill for Fasnacht as Vote Sunday Cuts Some Trains
The city can host a carnival and a federal ballot in the same weekend. It cannot put both on the same tram.
Wednesday, 5 February 2025
Lucerne Fasnacht Fills the Quays Before Basel's Morgenstreich
Brass and drums took the Seebrücke while Basel was still counting the sleeps until 4 a.m. Monday.
Monday, 3 February 2025
Final Polls Put Environmental Initiative Well Behind
A week out, the Green-backed text was losing in every language region. Campaigners on the yes side talked about late mail ballots anyway.