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Here are three news stories from Switzerland this week. What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments! --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch or subscribe to our YouTube channel.

To celebrate Swiss National Day, we look at one of Switzerland's most distinctive features: its direct democracy. Watch the video on our main channel to find out more. Are you celebrating Swiss National Day? How? Let us know in the comments. --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch...

Based on the border between North and South Korea for over seven decades, a small unarmed Swiss military contingent might seem to be a historical afterthought, but the mission still has an important role to play. --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch or subscribe to our YouTube...

A group of farmers is betting on lentils and chickpeas as part of the solution to climate change in Switzerland. Such legumes are both drought-resistant and protein-rich but growing them is anything but easy. Watch the full video on our main channel to find out more. --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and...

Legumes such as lentils are not a popular crop in Switzerland, even though they are rich in protein and resistant to drought. Plant breeders and researchers want to change this and have started field trials. Amid rising temperatures, legumes are taking root in Switzerland: hot, dry summers favour plants such as lentils, chickpeas and lupins, while thirsty crops like potatoes, beets or corn are yielding increasingly poor harvests – which also leads to increased prices for consumers....

Send us a Text Message. (https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/910414/open_sms) In this episode, SWI swissinfo.ch sat down with Claude Zellweger, Google's in-house design guru. We discussed the role of designers in tech innovation, AI, and the future of education. He also shared his thoughts on the challenges facing the tech industry and how we can overcome them by putting people first.  You can find more written and video content about this story on SWI...

Overview: An unexpected decline in Japan's unemployment did not prevent a retreat in the yen to a four-day low ahead of tomorrow's data and conclusion of the BOJ meeting. The dollar has probed the JPY155 area where nearly $3.5 bln options expire today. An unexpected contraction Germany's Q2 GDP was offset in the aggregate by better French, and especially Spanish figures, leaving the euro consolidating in a narrow range (~$1.0815-$1.0835). The greenback is softer...

Many who support state regulation of free markets claim that they are not against free markets, just against unregulated free markets. They argue that regulation is needed to mitigate the harm that may be suffered during market participation, such as people working long hours for low wages or suffering racial discrimination. As Ronald Hamowy explains in his introduction to Friedrich von Hayek’s “The Constitution of Liberty,” these arguments were influential in the...

What is the Mises Institute? The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard. Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order....

Did you know there are Swiss soldiers in the Korean Demilitarised Zone (DMZ)? In July 1953, the Swiss government decided to send soldiers to the area, marking the beginning of the military promotion of peace by Switzerland. --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events. For more articles, interviews and videos visit swissinfo.ch or subscribe to our...