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Tenants' Rights in Switzerland: How to Lower Your Rent, Handle Noise and Deal with Defects
Switzerland is very much a country of tenants: only around 36% of private households live in a home they own. For many people who move to Switzerland, renting an apartment or house is therefore not only the first housing option but often the only realistic one.Swiss tenancy la
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A Career You Can Take With You: Yulia Veluchko on Cake Making and Starting Over in Switzerland
A pastry or a cake might seem like one of the most ordinary things to order online. But Yuliia Velychko believes that people first place their trust in the person — and only then in the recipe.That is why a single Instagram post about her move to Switzerland brought her first
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Who Decides What Can Be Built in Switzerland: The Owner, the Municipality or the Neighbours?
A landowner may propose a development, but they do not have the sole authority to decide what can be built on their property. The municipality checks whether the project complies with local regulations, while neighbours may, under certain conditions, request that the decision
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Camping in Switzerland: Where You Can Spend the Night and What You Need to Know
There is no blanket federal ban on wild camping in Switzerland. But that does not mean you can pitch a tent beside any lake, in any forest or on any Alpine meadow. The rules depend on the canton, the municipality and the legal status of the area. Here is how the Swiss system
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The Extract from the Debt Enforcement Register: Why This Document Often Decides Whether You Get the Flat in Switzerland
In Switzerland, trust in a person's ability to pay is often confirmed not with words but with a single sheet of paper — the extract from the debt enforcement register (Betreibungsregisterauszug). Landlords ask for it before a tenancy agreement is signed; banks, leasing companies and
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Accident Insurance in Switzerland: When Your Employer Protects You — and When Only You Do
When a Ukrainian starts working in Switzerland, accident insurance usually feels like something the employer takes care of automatically. In principle that is true: compulsory accident insurance covers employees through their job. Yet behind this apparent simplicity lies a detail tha
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10 days ago
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Ukrainian Artist Alyona Rieznichek: "Switzerland Is Where I Chose to Truly Become an Artist"
Iryna Mykhalkiv-Vynnyk Member of the National Union of Journalists of UkraineThis article was prepared with editorial support from the UAinfo team.When Russia's full-scale invasion forced Alyona Rieznichek to leave Ukraine in 20
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Selling, Gifting or Bequeathing: What Happens to Swiss Property When the Owner Wants to Let It Go
Owning a home is only one chapter of the story. Sooner or later the opposite question arises: how to part with the property. There are three routes — to sell it, give it away, or pass it on — and each comes with its own rules and, above all, its own tax logic. The paradox is that the
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How One Small Mistake Can Cost Tens of Thousands of Francs: Common Situations from Everyday Swiss Life
In Switzerland, serious financial losses rarely begin with a bad investment, a risky business decision or an expensive purchase. Far more often they grow out of something that looks trivial at the time: an official letter left unopened, a contract signed without being read, an insure
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The Swiss Rental Agreement: Tenant Rights That Are Easy to Underestimate
For most Ukrainians settling in Switzerland, the rental agreement is the document that marks the real start of everyday life. It is often signed in a hurry, in the relief of having finally found a place to live, and that is precisely why misunderstandings surface later: about the dep
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The Ukrainian Memorial Stone in Losone: 80 Years of History
Iryna Mykhalkiv-VynnykMember of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine"To the Fighters for the Freedom of Ukraine, 1918–1946"In 2017, I prepared a research article for the Ukrainian press about Polish soldiers who
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The Swiss Rental Agreement: Tenant Rights That Are Easy to Underestimate
For most Ukrainians settling in Switzerland, the rental agreement is the document that marks the real start of everyday life. It is often signed in a hurry, in the relief of having finally found a place to live, and that is precisely why misunderstandings surface later: about the dep
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The First Year in Switzerland: Ten Mistakes Ukrainians Most Often Make
A year after arriving, two Ukrainians can be living in two completely different Switzerlands. One already works in their profession, speaks German and is looking into a mortgage; the other still postpones decisions, pays bills they needn't, and cannot see why the system "doesn't work
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21 days ago
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Why Switzerland Has No Single Minimum Wage — and What That Means for People Working Here
Anyone taking a first job in Switzerland sooner or later asks a question that sounds elementary: what is the least my employer is obliged to pay me? In most countries the answer fits in a single line of law — there is a national floor, and nothing may fall below it. Switzerland is bu
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22 days ago
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CHF 2,000 Fine for Missing One Day of School: How Switzerland Deals with Unauthorised Absences
Imagine this situation: summer holidays are about to begin, the flights are booked, the suitcases are packed, and your family trip is just around the corner. What could possibly happen if a child misses the very last day of school before the holidays?For one mother in the Swis
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Ticks in Switzerland: Risks, Vaccination and How to Stay Protected
For many people, ticks are something they rarely think about until they encounter one during a hike, a walk in the park, or a day spent outdoors. In Switzerland, however, ticks are taken more seriously than in many other European countries.The reason is simple: ticks are widespr
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2 months ago
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Status S and Permit B in Switzerland: What Could Change for Ukrainians After 2027
For tens of thousands of Ukrainians in Switzerland, Status S has long stopped feeling like a short-term emergency solution. People are working, renting apartments, integrating into local communities, enrolling their children in Swiss schools and increasingly planning their lives year
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2 months ago
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Why Many People in Switzerland Plan Their Own Funeral in Advance: A Story from Basel
Swiss magazine Beobachter recently published the story of a 72-year-old woman from Basel who nearly lost the chance to have a traditional burial because of financial difficulties.A practicing Catholic, she did not want to be cremated. For religious reasons,
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2 months ago
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700 Years of Tradition: How Switzerland Still Votes by Raising Hands
Participants of the Landsgemeinde vote by raising their hands in Appenzell Innerrhoden Author: Nicklaarakkers /
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3 months ago
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Starting a childcare centre in Switzerland: how to take the leap and build something that truly works
The desire to start your own business can live with you for years. It returns at different moments - as a thought, an idea, a feeling that you are capable of more. But between that desire and the actual step, there is always a difficult phase: doubts, unanswered questions, and the fear of doing s
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