Lausanne Metro Summer Works Put Buses on a Hill That Prefers Rails
A city built on a slope is unforgiving when the metro pauses. The buses will prove it.
June 2025
14 posts in the June 2025 file.
Friday, 27 June 2025
Thursday, 26 June 2025
UBS Intensifies Summer Lobbying Against Full Foreign-Unit Backing
The slogan in Bern is never again. The slogan in the bank is not like this.
Tuesday, 24 June 2025
Ticino Heat Arrives Early and Fills the Lakeside Path
The southern canton does not wait for the official summer. It just gets hot.
Saturday, 21 June 2025
Lake Zurich Bathing Season Opens to Record Early Crowds
The first weekend that felt like summer turned the lakefront into a second city centre.
Thursday, 19 June 2025
Art Basel Opens to the Public as the City Runs on Two Clocks
The doors that matter to the public opened at 11. The deals that matter to the booths had a two-day head start.
SNB Cuts Policy Rate to Zero and Keeps the FX Door Open
Zero is not a slogan at the SNB. It is a number, and it arrived with a familiar warning about the franc.
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Art Basel Preview Days Fill Messe and the Hotels Between
The fair has not opened to ticket holders. The city has already opened its prices.
Monday, 16 June 2025
Engadine Clerks Brief Councils on a Second-Home Tax Still in Mid-Air
You cannot write a tariff for a law the country has not yet accepted. You can draw the columns.
Friday, 13 June 2025
Federal Council Opens Consultation on the Switzerland-EU Package
The package left the negotiating table and entered the Swiss machine: cantons, parties, and a deadline in October.
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Basel Rhine Traffic Recovers as Summer Water Holds
The river is doing its summer job: carrying other people's factories toward the sea.
Tuesday, 10 June 2025
E-ID Opponents Table Their September Arguments in June
The law is already written. The adjectives for September were being tested in a room without voters.
Thursday, 5 June 2025
Summer Session Farm Debate Leaves Direct Payments Mostly Intact
Nobody went home with more money. Several went home with the same money, which was the point.
Tuesday, 3 June 2025
Summer Session Corridors Fill With EU Package Whispers
The order paper listed farm and transport. The whispers listed Brussels.
Monday, 2 June 2025
Summer Session Starts Under Heat and a Long Ballot Calendar
The session is three weeks. The campaign for September had already begun in the corridors.