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Trade
The Swiss trade and industry are not convinced of the benefits of membership. Switzerland has always negotiated with the world. Moreover, exports accounted for half of the income of the country.A national vote in 2001 rejecting proposal to open negot...
Outside the EU
Switzerland is not member of EU. Increase the possibilities of membership in that the majority of Swiss are convinced that the EU is here to stay. In 1992, the Swiss voters defeated a small margin of votes in the entry of Switzerland in the European ...
Federal Court
The Federal Court, the Supreme Court of Switzerland, is based in Lausanne, southwest. The Federal Insurance Court, which considers cases relating to insurance programs of the state, is located in Lucerne, central. And in April 2004, the criminal divi...
Across the country
There is no region of Switzerland which does not aspire to exercise some kind of tourist attraction. It's Alpine resorts, with mountaineering in summer and skiing in winter, with many resorts on the shores of lakes, offering water sports. Many Swiss ...
Short breaks
Currently, there are seasons of winter and summer, and seasons( bi-seasonal ), complemented with spas (spas) and congress tourism.The latest trend, after "active holidays", tourism is the well-being - a combination of relaxation with thermal baths, b...
Sources premature
Tourism as such began in the nineteenth century. But in the early years of the seventeenth century literary or simple reports of picturesque natural beauty Swiss attracted intellectual elites from abroad.Initially, tourism was only a summer activity....
Third export industry
A Swiss traditional source of revenue is tourism, although today, traveling to the Swiss abroad spend almost as much as the foreigners who visit the country.The balance, however, remains positive. Tourism is the third largest Swiss industry, employin...
Fund for the Arts
The system of division of costs that are required for the cantons is insufficient to subsidize the costs of local authorities with theaters, orchestras and ballet companies. Therefore, currently, the big cities take at least half the cost of cultural...
Federalism
bilingualism has always been carefully maintained in large corporations of the state, such as railways and postal services, while the bodies of official armed forces.Religion and language are two areas of potential issues with the structures of Swiss...
Rumantsch Grischun
The emergence of English as a language commercial, pop music, Internet, etc.., Helped to weaken the Swiss trilingualism.The broad and ancient system of military security that most of the soldiers came a time when the country's different language regi...
Romanche
Officially, only 35,000 Swiss Romansh use from day to day, as a first language. However, they are probably about 50,000 who have the Swiss Romansh as their mother tongue, but live in other parts of Switzerland.Considerable efforts are being made to k...
Bilingual
Officially, there are even bilingual cities, as Friborg / Freiburg or Biel / Bienne. There the visitor can use their knowledge of German or French, with good potential to be understood.It is very likely, however, that a Swiss-French, on the shores of...
Eternal tension
Thus, the Swiss-German artists living eternal tension between the language they speak and to write, when writing a novel or a program for art exhibition, concerts or.The Swiss German-speaking born with a language and a maternal language, but have to ...
Diversity
The only common factor to the Swiss company is its extreme diversity. Any attempt to obtain a homogeneous profile is doomed to failure.The main reason is its linguistic composition, which comprises three main languages - German, French and Italian, s...
Allowances
Swiss farmers need 2.5 billion Swiss francs (U.S. $ 1.96 billion) in annual payments or in direct government subsidies, or not have to face this competition.Some estimates suggest that support for farmers to cost 4 billion Swiss coffers of dollars an...
Fewer farmers
It is difficult to find a segment of the Swiss economy which has suffered so many blows in the last ten years, as agriculture.It is part of national folklore that Swiss farmers have the habit of complaining. In reality, however, they dropped their pr...
Painters and sculptors
Many of the art historians see Ferdinand Hodler as a figure of embryonic Swiss painting. His works dating from the late nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century are popular and reach high prices at auctions of art.Hodler's paintings ...
Music
Many Swiss have become known in the world of classic music: Arthur Honegger and Othmar Schoeck were respected composers. Honegger spent most of his life in France, where he was part of a vanguard group of its time, the beginning of the twentieth cent...
Writers
Friedrich Dürrenmatt is perhaps the most dramatic pieces by known, such as The Physical, although police have also written novels and film scenarios.His contemporary, Max Frisch, who graduated architect in Zurich before becoming a writer is probably...
Theater
Switzerland has an ancient and rich theatrical tradition. Basel, Bern and Zurich offer productions, whose success goes far beyond its borders. The same happens to Geneva.The large theater, with or without orchestras and / or bodies of ballet, consume...
Contemporary Architects
More recently, Mario Botta, the Swiss Italian, who gained international fame with his bold designs.Among his works was the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, and the recent restoration of the opera house in Milan, La Scala. Botta teaches at the U...
Architecture
Thanks to its urbanization and industrial growth, Switzerland has always been a breeding ground for architects.Switzerland was not only the birthplace producer of several famous architects but also is a pole of attraction for some big foreign names.B...
Tunnels
The Alps have always been a barrier for road and rail connections. Tortuous steps were inevitably closed in winter due to snow. But with the advent of railroads and new techniques for the construction of tunnels in the second half of the nineteenth c...
Bridges
The mountainous topography of Switzerland requires a lot of bridges on highways and railroads, so it is not surprising that bridges the old days retain a mythical connotations.The so-called Devil's Bridge, near Andermatt, in step the Gotthard, receiv...
Freight traffic
The Swiss policy of transport or transfer to rail throughout the movement of freight from roads and highways - primarily for environmental reasons. This applies mainly to transit traffic between the northern and southern Europe.The current lines of t...
Networking
While many Swiss are fanatics for cars, they use the train more often than anywhere else in the world, except Japan in the infrastructure of public transportation covers the whole country.Today there are almost one car for every two Swiss, whether ma...
Reform
The Radical Party, center-right, wants to introduce a national policy on education in school full-time and hourly harmonized across country.The pressures for change have emerged from international comparisons, such as the Pisa (Program for Internatio...
Multiple systems
The Federal Constitution stipulates the right to education and the obligation to attend school. But the Cantons are responsible for schooling.This means that there are currently 26 different education systems in Switzerland, though there have been ap...
Reform
Army XXI is the most radical transformation of the Swiss defense since the Second World War. Modern design requires military units to fight more flexible, dynamic and mobile.Divisions are turning into brigades and many static formations are being reg...
More Professional
The growing professionalization of the units means that new and more extensive forms of services are now required.The permanent wing of the air force has for decades operating at full time. The increasing technical nature of armies now requires that ...
