All About Switzerland
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An up-to-date guide to Swiss society and current affairs, All About Switzerland features a selection of 29 news and background articles, opinion pieces and personal essays by Clare O'Dea. The articles were first published online between 2022 and 2024 by The Local Switzerland news platform.
Author of the bestselling The Naked Swiss: A Nation Behind 10 Myths and the novel Voting Day, Clare O'Dea has been writing about Switzerland for 20 years. In All About Switzerland, she provides insight on Swiss current affairs and society, with sections on money, the future, women, foreigners, Europe and more. Who are the elite in Switzerland? What are the best cantons for foreigners to live in? Why is Switzerland failing in the fight against money laundering? Can you ever hope to clean your house like the Swiss? Find out the answers to these questions and many more this new title from a Swiss insider.
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Introduction
Money
Five failings in Switzerland's fight against money laundering
Why Switzerland needs to scrap its fabled 1,000-franc note
How to save money on healthcare in Switzerland
Switzerland's richest are getting richer but is that what the country wants?
Switzerland and Europe
How likely is it that Switzerland will join the EU in the next decade?
The Swiss Cold War manual inspiring Ukraine's fight against Russia
Switzerland's neutrality not immune to impacts of Ukraine's invasion
Foreigners
Switzerland's denial of voting rights to foreigners is motivated by fear
Are foreigners to blame if they find the Swiss unfriendly?
What are the best Swiss cantons for foreigners to live in?
Seven tips on how to learn one of Switzerland's national languages
The Future
Will Switzerland be able to feed itself in the future?
Nine million population threshold sparks soul-searching
An impossible dream: will we come to dread Swiss summers in future?
Are the Swiss finally going to get serious on tackling the climate crisis?
Women
Part-time work is a costly compromise for women in Switzerland
Switzerland can no longer justify a lower retirement age for women
Weighing up achievements since the 2019 women's strike
Society
Switzerland has found a winning formula for its primary schools
Swiss trains are an expensive success story
Why so many Swiss are quitting the church and taking their money with them
Old bastions of privilege endure in Switzerland
Only in Switzerland
Signatures for cash cheapens Swiss democracy
Is the Swiss obsession with privacy too much of a good thing?
Job hunting tips: what Swiss employers are looking for
And finally...
Cleanliness is next to Swissness
How to make the most of the hectic Swiss summer
English-language bookshops have become a community haven
The true signs you're becoming more Swiss than the Swiss
Key Swiss facts
About the author
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