SBB Warns of Full Trains Toward the Alps for the Easter Weekend
The holiday is a week away. The reservation graph is already a problem.
March 2026
24 posts in the March 2026 file.
Tuesday, 31 March 2026
Thursday, 26 March 2026
Geneva Hosts a Quiet Disarmament Week After the Ballot Noise
After a five-item Swiss Sunday, the Palais went back to the work that never appears on a cantonal poster.
Tuesday, 24 March 2026
SVP Opens the National Phase of the 10 Million Initiative
The next Sunday already has a number on the poster: 10 million, written as a warning.
Friday, 20 March 2026
Spring Session Closes With Overflow Already Dated for April
Three weeks in March were not enough. They almost never are.
Thursday, 19 March 2026
SNB Leaves Policy Unchanged at Its March Assessment
The central bank's March sentence was the one markets had written down in advance: no change, and a reminder about the franc.
Monday, 16 March 2026
Spring Session Midpoint Returns to Premiums and Transport Credits
Sunday's percentages left the building. Monday's papers did not include them.
Thursday, 12 March 2026
March Turnout Lands Near 56 Percent Across the Five Items
Five questions did not produce five turnouts. They produced a band just under 56 percent.
Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Cash Stays Legal After Voters Prefer the Counter-Proposal
Notes and coins remain part of the constitution's furniture. Cards remain what most city tills prefer.
Tuesday, 10 March 2026
Parties Read Monday's Map: Broadcasting Kept, Climate Fund Buried
Everyone found a sentence that fitted their poster. Only some of those sentences fitted the percentages.
Climate Fund Dies at 29.3 Percent With No Canton in Favour
A spending vehicle that wins no canton is not a near miss. It is a verdict on the vehicle.
Monday, 9 March 2026
SRG Treats the Licence-Fee No as a Reprieve, Not a Mandate
The broadcaster survived the ballot. It did not escape the budget.
Individual Taxation Yes Starts a Long Rewrite of Tax Software
The principle is simple. The migration of a million tax files is not.
Sunday, 8 March 2026
Voters Keep the Licence Fee and Reject a Climate Fund
Public broadcasting survived. A large climate spending vehicle did not. Two other items on the same Sunday did better.
Midday Turnout Looks Like a Serious Sunday, Not a Record
By lunch the pattern was familiar: heavier in the east, lighter on the lake, enough envelopes to call it a real Sunday.
Polling Stations Open on a Five-Item Federal Sunday
The rooms in school gyms look the same every Sunday. The stack of papers on the table does not.
Saturday, 7 March 2026
Last Stalls Go Up in Olten Before the Five-Item Sunday
Olten is where the country's trains meet. On the last Saturday, so do the flyers.
Friday, 6 March 2026
Communes Log a Steady Postal Flow Ahead of Sunday
Most Swiss votes are decided at the kitchen table, then walked to a yellow box.
Thursday, 5 March 2026
Final Polls Point to a No on the Fee Cut and the Climate Fund
The last numbers before a Swiss Sunday are not a prophecy. They are a map of which fights are still alive.
Wednesday, 4 March 2026
Individual Taxation Is a Fairness Vote With an IT Bill Attached
The principle fits on a flyer. The migration of a million files does not.
Tuesday, 3 March 2026
Cash Vote Is Two Texts and a Deciding Question
You can like cash and still prefer the government's paragraph to the initiative's.
Climate Fund Asks Voters for a Permanent Slice of GDP
The fund's backers talk about flood walls. Its opponents talk about a second budget that never closes.
Monday, 2 March 2026
Licence-Fee Cut Would Hit Regional News First, SRG Says
The number on the poster is 200. The number in the newsroom is how many desks remain in Chur and Lausanne.
Spring Session Opens With a Vote Sunday Already in the Diary
The first gavel of the year landed six days before a five-item ballot. The two calendars will trip over each other all fortnight.
Sunday, 1 March 2026
Five Federal Items Share One March Sunday
It is a lot of constitution and statute for a single breakfast table.