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Switzerland is offering a cash prize for solutions to remove munitions from its lakes. The ammo was dumped in lakes between 1918 and 1964 as the Swiss military believed it to be safe.
After World War II, Switzerland experienced an economic boom that fuelled a demand for labour. Agreement-based recruitment programs with southern European countries, particularly Italy, [2] Spain, [3] and Portugal, facilitated the arrival of thousands of “guest workers.” During this period, Switzerland’s immigration laws centred on ...
Population growth in Switzerland is mostly due to immigration: in 2009, there have been 78,286 live births recorded (74% Swiss, 26% foreign nationalities), contrasting with 62,476 deaths (92% Swiss, 8% foreigners). Thus, of the population growth rate of 1.1% during 2009, about 0.2% are due to births, and 0.9% due to immigration.
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1 January - New Year's Day; 2 January - Berchtoldstag Day; 6 January - Epiphany; 1 March - Republic Day; 19 March - Saint Joseph's Day; 3 April - Näfels Ride; 18 April - Good Friday; 21 April - Easter Monday; 1 May - International Workers' Day; 29 May - Ascension Day; 9 June - Whit Monday; 19 June - Corpus Christi; 29 June - Saints Peter and Paul
For tax purposes, residence may also arise if a person stays in Switzerland for 30 days, or for 90 days if he or she does not work. [11] Moreover, non-residents are also taxed on certain Swiss assets or on the income from certain Swiss sources, such as from real estate, permanent business establishments or pensions. [12]
A recreation of a scene from the report, showing a woman harvesting cooked spaghetti from the branches of a tree. The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from a "spaghetti tree".
Rank Canton GRDP per capita (in CHF) 1 Basel-Stadt: 209,782 2 Zug: 192,958 3 Geneva: 119,644 4 Neuchâtel: 106,165 5 Zürich: 104,620 6 Ticino: 102,190 7