Special Session Closes and Points Straight at the June Ballot
The extra days did their job. The next crowd will not be in this chamber.
April 2026
16 posts in the April 2026 file.
Thursday, 30 April 2026
Wednesday, 29 April 2026
Rail Credits Clear the Special Session After March Bottleneck
Track possessions are booked in months, not in speeches. That is why this dull vote had a deadline.
Tuesday, 28 April 2026
Special Session Day Two Grinds Through Transport Money
The public gallery was half empty. The credit lines were not.
Monday, 27 April 2026
Special Session Sits for Four Days on Overflow Files
Four extra days in Bern is not a crisis. It is a sign the ordinary calendar did not fit.
Friday, 24 April 2026
Civilian Service Referendum Enters Its Last Seven Weeks
The army says too many conscripts leave for civilian service. The referendum committee says the door should stay a door.
Thursday, 23 April 2026
Deputies Prepare a Four-Day Special Session on Overflow Files
Four extra days in Bern is a scheduling confession, not a crisis.
Monday, 20 April 2026
Sechselaeuten Burns the Boegg on a Cold Third Monday
The guilds marched. The Boegg burned. The lake wind did not take a holiday.
Thursday, 16 April 2026
Farm Unions Warm Up Against Mercosur Before the Summer Sitting
The trade text is still a committee file. The market-square argument is already written.
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
Valais Reopens High Roads After the Mid-April Dump
The snow that closed the weekend did not stay in the forecast. It stayed on the road.
Sunday, 12 April 2026
Late Spring Avalanches Close High Routes After a Heavy Dump
Spring sun on new snow is a pretty combination and a bad one.
Friday, 10 April 2026
10 Million Campaign Finds a Hearing in Aargau Factory Towns
The housing queue is real. Whether a population ceiling would shorten it is the argument.
Wednesday, 8 April 2026
Energy Committee Prepares the Vote to Lift the Nuclear Ban
The 2017 door-closing law is now a committee paper about opening it again.
Monday, 6 April 2026
Easter Monday Return Traffic Backs Up Below the Jungfrau
The postcard towns emptied from the car parks outward.
Sunday, 5 April 2026
Easter Sunday Draws Crowds to Einsiedeln and the Lake Churches
The abbey square took the pilgrims. The landing stages took everyone else.
Friday, 3 April 2026
Good Friday Empties City Centres and Fills the Trains That Remain
The bells marked a fast. The reservation system marked a peak.
Thursday, 2 April 2026
Zurich Main Station Fills as Easter Weekend Travel Starts Early
The holiday weekend began in the underpass, not at the church door.