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Newly Swissed is a flagship online magazine about Switzerland. From Swiss world records to quizzes or random facts about Switzerland, it’s all right here! In Switzerland, the industry works in such a way to please each traditional individuals and to reply to the money desires of enormous firms. The country has very little flaws in the social and economic level. This created it the right candidate for the position it occupied when the primary war. It became the biggest gold market within the world. If you are interested in politics in Switzerland, please visit our archive with dozens of articles.
Stephanie
Dimitri BurkhardDada Birthday Bash – When Zürich Meets New York
So the Dada movement threw itself an early birthday party - two years before the centennial in 2016. Why would a centennial need to be at exactly 100 years?
ChristianImmigration Policy: What Switzerland Could Learn from the U.S. (and vice versa)
Switzerland and the United States have a track record of adopting each other's policies. Consider 1787, when the founders of...
3 popular initiatives about money and salaries in Switzerland
Switzerland has long been known as an island of wealth in Europe, but there is growing discontent in the country of cheese and chocolate...
Elections: No Thanks, Say the Swiss. Again.
Last week the Swiss voted on a topic of profound national importance that would boggle the minds of most Americans...
Bill Harby
A Lesson from Liechtenstein
If you love cultural diversity, you’ve got to love Switzerland. Among only 8 million residents, 25%+ of whom are immigrants, we have four official languages, at least 18 types of cheeses...
Graubünden 2022: Olympic Dream or Nightmare?
Higher, faster, stronger. Those three words are the theme of the Olympic Games. Every two years, the countries do their best to come together and cheer on the world's best athletes. Yet for an institution that tries so...
11 Things Americans Can Learn From The Swiss
Most Americans relate Switzerland to clever knives, Heidi, and secret bank vaults, but there’s a lot more the Swiss can teach us about how they achieve such a high quality of life...
DJ Forza
Explaining the Smoking Ban Initiative (Sept 2012)
I felt like I was stepping back in time when I moved to Switzerland in 2012. In fact, with all this second-hand smoke for free, I have often wondered why people (particularly at train stations) will pay for cigarettes...
Nualan
Does Switzerland have an image problem?
Using claims such as “Made in Switzerland” and “Swiss Quality” has long been the dream of any marketer. But during recent years...
The Plastic Garbage Project
15 seconds: That’s how long it takes for this pile of garbage to enter the world’s oceans. This is truly incredible, given that this process is going on 24/7/365...
The Book Poster Debate
Anyone living in Switzerland knows that the Swiss are often asked to vote on political and social issues. Whether it be EU integration, gun ownership, minimum wages or the amount of holidays working people should be...
