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by Ferdi Hodel, Managing Director of ZBV
(5 December 2025) The associations had until 31 October 2025 to submit their comments on the “Stabilisation and Further Development of Switzerland–EU Relations” package to the federal government. The board of the “Zurich Farmers Association” (ZBV) has also drafted a statement:
by Ulrich Schlüer*
(28 novembre 2025) For the Swiss Federal Council, the register decided upon by the EU to record all assets of EU residents and EU companies is a taboo subject that is strictly banned from all discussions. But the decision to introduce a comprehensive asset register has been passed in the EU. Its introduction will begin next year, i.e. in 2026.
by Dr Peter F. Mayer*
(28 November 2025) I covered the nearly 1,000 kilometres from Zhengzhou to Shanghai in 3 hours and 45 minutes. Sixty train pairs travel the route every day. China’s dense railway infrastructure is one of the cornerstones of its economic success, as economists such as Prof. Michael Hudson and Prof. Richard Wolff explain.
by Felix Abt*
(28 November 2025) Behind the shiny façade of the US, with its record-breaking stock markets and AI rhetoric, lies an economy in which eight out of ten Americans can barely survive.
by Carl Baudenbacher*
(21 November 2025) On 20 December 2024, the Swiss Federal Council approved a package of agreements with the European Union (EU) without fully knowing their content. However, the institutional features were clear.
The agreements provide for the dynamic adoption of EU law by Switzerland, de facto surveillance of Switzerland by the European Commission and the settlement of disputes by a pro forma arbitration tribunal under the supervision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
(21 November 2025) (CH-S) It is not only the founding of the “Freedom of Speech Alliance” (www.buendnisredefreiheit.ch) for Switzerland and Germany that has attracted attention recently. In Zurich, another high-profile association has presented itself to the public, which also represents the concerns of citizens against increasingly intrusive statehood:
Ueli Maurer (former Federal Councillor, SVP), Thilo Sarrazin (former Finance Senator of Berlin, ex-SPD) and Hans Georg Maassen (former German President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution) presented the “Leonhard Circle” to a wider public on 27 October.1 This is an urgently needed step against the creeping decline of civic spirit, the rule of law, and the desire for peace beyond Switzerland’s borders.