Trump Divides America Whilst Switzerland Divides Its Economy into “Good” and “Evil” The new U.S. tariffs have increased pressure on Swiss companies, leading people to look for scapegoats, which is the worst possible reaction to geopolitical shocks. 30.10.2025, Jürg Müller, Michele Salvi
Service at Its Finest: The Underrated Trade in Services One million jobs in Switzerland depend on trade in services. For Switzerland’s competitiveness, it is becoming ever more important. 30.09.2025, Simon Stocker, Michele Salvi
Tariffs, Power, and Walls: What Trump Is Doing to Switzerland—and What Switzerland Should Do Itself For the National Day, Switzerland received an unfriendly greeting from Washington: certain exports are to be subject to punitive tariffs of up to 39%—difficult to justify economically, but politically all the more explosive. 27.08.2025, Michele Salvi
Solutions to the Tariff Dispute Analysis How Switzerland Can Strengthen Its Competitiveness Over the Next 12 Months 27.08.2025, Jürg Müller, Patrick Leisibach, Michele Salvi, Patricia Schafer, Lukas Schmid, Diego Taboada
Switzerland-USA: 9 Ideas to Get Back to Business Switzerland can either complain about tariffs and threats from Washington or take action to benefit both countries in the long term. 30.04.2025, Christoph Eisenring
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
Swiss Concessions to India The trade agreement between the EFTA and India may be a coup, but it lacks breadth and depth (Part 2). 27.09.2024, Marion Panizzon and Simon Stocker
Switzerland Bets on India The new agreement between the EFTA and India breaks with traditional trade agreements (Part 1). 26.09.2024, Simon Stocker
Trade On International trade is no guarantee of peace, but still has its perks. 31.05.2024, Simon Stocker, Jürg Müller
Let’s Stop Milking the Cow Twice Swiss agricultural policy favors the agricultural sector at the expense of farmers, consumers and taxpayers 27.10.2023, Patrick Dümmler
Is a Self-Sufficient Switzerland Really All It Seems? Hannah’s Quicktakes on Swiss agriculture 28.02.2023, Hannah Wise
The Concentration of Critical Minerals The only thing securing Switzerland access to lithium and rare earths is openness. 27.02.2023, Simon Stocker
The Balancing Act between USA, EU und China Hannah’s Quicktakes into Avenir Suisse's latest study "Navigating troubled waters" 01.06.2022, Hannah Wise
Navigating Troubled Waters Three Options for Switzerland in its Dealings with China 31.05.2022, Patrick Dümmler, Teresa Hug Alonso, Mario Bonato
How Effective Are Sanctions against Russia? The greatest impact comes when allies are coordinated and sanctions are implemented multilaterally 31.05.2022, Jan Averkin, Patrick Dümmler
When Politicians Pull the Plug Homemade Problems Are Jeopardizing the Supply of Electricity 08.03.2022, Patrick Dümmler
Open the Digital Frontiers The Digital Single Market creates new opportunities for Europe’s digital economy – but what about Switzerland? 26.10.2021, Corina Gall, Céline Neuenschwander
