Author: Lorenzo Piccoli
The nccr – on the move blog has been read by over 2000 people during 2018. The most popular post is «High-Skilled but Unemployed: The Absence of Expat Wives from the Labor Market», by Kate Kirk. The three most read contributions of the year are dealing with family migration and ...
+ Read moreUnlike his brother Granit Xhaka, who plays for the Swiss national team, the Basel-born Taulant Xhaka opted to play for Albania, where his parents were born. The two brothers did not play against each other at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. If Switzerland would have qualified for the ...
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On Wednesday, 1 November, Ignazio Cassis formally replaces outgoing federal councilor Didier Burkhalter as the seventh member of the Federal Council of Switzerland. Born to Italian parents in the Swiss canton of Ticino, Cassis gave up his Italian citizenship just weeks before being elected. His decision sparked a heated debate on whether elected politicians should surrender their foreign passports and renounce their dual citizenship, once elected to a post. In Switzerland, there is no legal obligation to do so.
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