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Re-election of the CSA for the 2025-2029 mandate

The election of the delegates of the Council of the Swiss Abroad (CSA), the supreme body of the Organization of the Swiss Abroad (OSA), will take place worldwide between January and June 2025. (Information available in German and French)

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Swiss communities abroad

Discover active Swiss communities around the globe: facts, traditions, club life, and contacts – brought to you by Swiss citizens living abroad.

The new edition of "Swiss Review" is out

Switzerland’s culinary heritage – a patchwork of delights | Swiss-EU relations – the moment of truth awaits | Reaching for the sky in Switzerland – high-rise buildings made of wood

Get to know the candidates

From April 12 to May 11, 2025, you can vote for your CSA delegates in 13 constituencies. The complete PIN codes have been duly sent to the voters; the original delivery error has been resolved.

Scholarships for an education in Switzerland?

The “Foundation for the Swiss Abroad” has been managing funds since 1961 to support young Swiss abroad

The new director of the Organization of the Swiss Abroad

The OSA Board has unanimously elected Dr. Lukas Weber as the new Director of the Organization's Secretariat. He succeeds Ariane Rustichelli, who is taking on a new professional challenge after 17 years with the OSA. (Media release in German)

Swiss Abroad Statistics 2024

The Swiss abroad population grew to 826,700 in 2024, with most holding multiple nationalities.

Fifth Switzerland | Sentiment turns against the Swiss Abroad

Indifference and disdain – the mood in Switzerland has turned against the Swiss Abroad of late. No longer flavour of the month, or symptomatic of a more general malaise?

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Join the Council of the Swiss Abroad (CSA) – the Parliament of the Fifth Switzerland!

For the first time, centralized online direct elections are being held in 13 countries or country groups. Is your country one of them? If so, you can nominate yourself as a candidate until Saturday, February 15.

Webinar: Environmental Responsibility Initiative

Swiss politics understandable to everyone: Find out now about the upcoming popular votes on February 9. Available in German and French.

Winter camp in Davos – A Thrilling Start to the Year

From December 27, 2024, to January 5, 2025, 36 young Swiss nationals living abroad kicked off the year with an unforgettable ski and snowboarding camp in Davos.
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RaiseNow fundraising platform under fire for rejecting Swiss People’s Party

14. May 2025 - Last year's decision by RaiseNow, a Swiss online fundraising and payment platform, to refuse to offer payment solutions to the right-wing Swiss…

St Gallen weighs playground smoking ban to protect children

13. May 2025 - The city of Chur in southeastern Switzerland has led the way in smoke-free playgrounds; now a similar initiative is gaining ground in St Gallen in the…

Honesty over success: the true values of the Swiss population

12. May 2025 - What is most important to people in Switzerland and the Swiss Abroad to be satisfied in life? According to a survey by the Swiss Broadcasting…

‘Without immigration, more than a third of the Swiss population would disappear per generation’

12. May 2025 - Switzerland is a country of emigration, but at the same time it has a high level of immigration. This is typical of an open, globalised country, says…

The seven weirdest Swiss votes of all time

10. May 2025 - By far the most referendums in the world take place in Switzerland. So it’s no wonder that some are a bit odd, for example whether to ban absinthe,…

How the Jungfraujoch helped launch the Eurovision Song Contest in 1956

09. May 2025 - The idea for the first Eurovision Song Contest came from a Swiss director. But the contest was originally a technical test: could a live programme be…

Lugano appoints new exorcist amid rising demand

08. May 2025 - Medieval tradition or modern need? Between faith and occultism, the role of an exorcist is reborn in a contemporary context and regulated by…

The tragic story of a Swiss farmer who perished on the Titanic

07. May 2025 - One of the Titanic victims was a Swiss farmer from the town of Uster, near Zurich. An exhibition in Germany now tells his tragic story. "It was really…

Historic Swiss maternity hospital in France under threat

06. May 2025 - In 1939, Zurich teacher Elisabeth Eidenbenz opened a maternity hospital in a small village in the French Pyrenees. Hundreds of women to whom she…
 

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