Posted by Konrad K Häuptli | Jan 13, 2026 | News from Berne |
The Case: Swiss agriculture faces growing challenges: Fewer approved pesticides, limited alternatives as well as new pests. The Commentary: The Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) plans to address these problems with its Strategy for Sustainable Crop Protection 2035, featuring ten measures, such as promoting resilient varieties, expanding biological pest control…
Read MorePosted by Konrad K Häuptli | Jan 12, 2026 | News from Berne |
The Case: 2026 will be a politically heavily loaded year in Switzerland with several nationwide referendums on the EU, health, climate and digital measures, immigration as well as budget and security issues. The Commentary: Referendums: Reducing the SRG fee, reforming individual taxation, creating a climate fund (0.5 – 1 %…
Read MorePosted by Konrad K Häuptli | Jan 10, 2026 | Regulatory |
The Case: US President Trump has recently pledged to prevent institutional investors from buying single-family homes, explicitly framing the move as an affordability measure, emphasizing housing affordability and instructing mortgage agencies to purchase mortgage bonds to help lower rates. At the same time other policies, including higher defence spending, tighter…
Read MorePosted by Konrad K Häuptli | Jan 9, 2026 | Information Technology |
The Case: Our first article was published on Lexology today: for details see link The Commentary: Hub page of k-flash: for more details see link
Read MorePosted by Konrad K Häuptli | Jan 9, 2026 | Regulatory |
The Case: The Federal Council has opened a consultation on amendments to the Banking Act as well as the Capital Adequacy Ordinance. The proposals would require systemically important banks to fully capitalise their foreign subsidiaries, with higher capital requirements phased in over seven years. The consultation closes tomorrow.
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