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Swiss Review
February 1/26

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Media shift and spending caps: Swiss broadcasting is under pressure

Changes in media usage, rounds of cost-cutting and job cuts: the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR), Switzerland’s publicly financed media…

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Peter Lyner | Baker

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Children or pets, poverty or wealth?

Switzerland in figures

School | The place where people learn to teach (again)

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Puzzle | Úrsula Schläppi, Colombia

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The left wants billions in climate investment

Politics

Two initiatives, two resounding defeats

Politics

OSA Director Daniel Hunziker – “working tirelessly on behalf of our global expatriate community”

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Council of the Swiss Abroad | New challenges ahead for the CSA

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Hamo Morgenthaler | “He was never concerned with literature, but with life, his life”

Literature series

Youth Service camps: laughter, adventure – and pinpoint logistics

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Belinda Schulz | “A look beyond my own horizons”

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Movetia – Language assistance in Switzerland

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Switzerland from the comfort of your home

From the editor’s desk

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Notes from the Federal Palace

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Swiss Review
February 1/26

Media shift and spending caps: Swiss broadcasting is under pressure

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Stories around the campfire

Uncertain future for swissinfo’s international offering

Should smartphones be banned at school?

A climate exhibition without the lecturing

A Swiss farmer living in France becomes National Councillor

Switzerland’s youngest municipality is a satellite of Lausanne

Switzerland and the war in Ukraine

Measuring time: Swiss expertise applied to sport

The winner is... Dorothee Elmiger