On Trump’s Radar: What Now Needs to be Considered The U.S. accuses Switzerland of unfair trade practices—what lies behind these allegations? How should Switzerland respond? 26.03.2025, Simon Stocker, Lukas Schmid
The Role of Small Open Economies Think Tank Summit 2022 Discussion with Markus Herrmann Chen, Kristy Hsu and Kishore Mahbubani 08.04.2022, Patrick Dümmler
The Dead End of Repatriation Analysis Globalization, not self-sufficiency, for security of supply and prosperity 26.05.2020, Patrick Dümmler, Peter Grünenfelder, Pascal Lago
Why Does Switzerland Have Sugar Subsidies? Why Does Anyone? Expensive subsidies for sugar are delaying structural change 26.11.2019, Patrick Dümmler
Key Lessons for Switzerland’s New Parliament Two new publications by Avenir Suisse authors come packed with good advice 31.10.2019, Haig Simonian
What if… 13 possible developments and their consequences for Switzerland 31.10.2019, Peter Grünenfelder and Jürg Müller (Editors)
Lording it over the Rest of the World Why Switzerland should resist the temptation of legal imperialism 13.05.2019, Patrick Dümmler, Fabian Schnell
Trade Should Be Free and Extraterritoriality Avoided A ‘one size fits all’ attempt to export one country’s rules and standards is not helpful 01.03.2019, Haig Simonian
The Farmer as an Executive Body Deregulation in Switzerland's agricultural sector could stimulate innovation and nurture farmers' entrepreneurial spirit 31.08.2018, Peter Grünenfelder
Close Ranks and Keep Cool Trump’s trade wars could prompt an EU rethink in Switzerland 29.06.2018, Haig Simonian
The Future of Democracy? Events Impressions from Avenir Suisse's 2018 Think Tank Summit 15.02.2018, Verena Parzer-Epp
Is Canola Oil a Factor in Switzerland’s Economic Growth ? After Europe, the largest market for Switzerland is the United States. However, if this market were to become more difficult to access, Switzerland might have to envisage the possibility of entering into new free trade agreements in order to exploit the vast potential of fast-growing Asian markets. Nevertheless, the Swiss agricultural lobby is firmly opposed to a foreign trade agreement with Indonesia. 16.05.2017, Peter Grünenfelder
Trump’s Tax Plans Are a Significant Threat to Switzerland Is Switzerland under increasing pressure to reform? 18.04.2017, Marco Salvi
Rethinking International Trade and Migration after Brexit and Trump Focus of the month, Think Tank Summit Think-tankers from six countries analyzing the changing geopolitical framework 14.03.2017, Mariusz Lukasiewicz
A Trumpian Revolution in International Trade Speech of Frances G. Burwell, Distinguished Fellow Atlantic Council, on international trade, at the Avenir Suisse Think Tank Summit 2017 03.02.2017, Frances G. Burwell
Migration or the Challenge of Explaining Counterfactual Evidence Think Tank Summit Chief economist Patrik Schellenbauer on global migration 01.02.2017, Patrik Schellenbauer
Promoting Trade over Protectionism Focus of the month Switzerland’s Free Trade Policies 18.01.2017, Mariusz Lukasiewicz
The New Reality of Global Trade Analyzing the economic consequences of the US presidential elections: A Swiss perspective 14.12.2016, Peter Grünenfelder, Patrik Schellenbauer, Patrick Dümmler, Fabian Schnell, Marco Salvi
Trade Rather than Protectionism A three pillar strategy for Switzerland's foreign trade 05.10.2016, Patrick Dümmler, Kevin Kienast
