Course: Switzerland in Europe: Money, Migration and Other Difficult Matters

In the modern world, no country is an island. Switzerland is part of a highly interconnected world. What this means may have an influence on other countries, and vice versa. …

Here you can find the results of the vote of the previous step. Make sure to come back later as more people go through the course and cast a vote. …

The Swiss example shows that international tax standards may lead to changes in the national law. Over time, Swiss banking secrecy came under increasing international pressure, first from the United …

In this article, we will discover how the EU–Swiss dispute on corporate taxation was resolved, though through a different avenue than the one first envisaged by the European Commission. We …

In our last step, we have heard about the Swiss legal system with respect to corporate taxation. Every country on our globe has its own particular national tax system. At …

The Swiss federal state structure has important implications for corporate taxation and for the country’s global standing in this field. In Switzerland, there is tax competition between the Swiss sub-states, …

In this article, we turn to a practical case in order to illustrate one of the ‘difficult issues’ involving Switzerland, an issue that is of both European and global importance. …

As stated before, our course explores the economic, political and legal position of Switzerland in Europe, in particular vis-à-vis the European Union (EU). We have defined five specific learning goals …

As we all know, the exact same issue can often be viewed from very different perspectives. This is just as true for the position of Switzerland in Europe and for …

In this short animation you can see two historical postcards, from 1916 and 1917, respectively. Using the imagery of an island that is – obviously – not based on the …

The University of Basel welcomes you to ‘Switzerland in Europe: Money, Migration and Other Difficult Matters‘. Though located in the heart of Western Europe, Switzerland is not part of integration …