Europe Switzerland Switzerland should make military service compulsory for women as well in the view of the president of the Swiss Officers' Association (SOG), which has roughly 22.000 members
Europe Switzerland A shortage of qualified staff is forcing Swiss hospitals to look across borders; for years, foreign care staff in Switzerland have accounted for 30-40% of the sector's workforce
Europe Switzerland Fribourg secondary school pupils will have the opportunity, from the beginning of the next school year, to obtain a bilingual baccalaureate in which one of the two is Italian, an education that also includes a one-year stay in a Ticino school
Europe Switzerland Rents in Switzerland are getting more and more expensive: in 2022, average rents for new or re-rented flats rose by an average of 3%, with some cities showing variations of up to +6,7%
Europe Switzerland According to a survey by Comparis, more than a quarter of the population expects their financial situation to worsen in 2023, mainly due to rising compulsory health insurance premiums and energy prices