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Is Switzerland still the safe haven? Watch what it decides
Switzerland is the last country in Europe where the size of the state, the currency and the right to property are still decided by the people who pay for them. That settlement is being tested in the open right now, and so far it holds. But you cannot vote on any of it. All you can do is watch what the Swiss decide, understand what each decision means for your move and your money, and time your entry before a door you were counting on gets narrower.
On 27 September the Swiss vote on staying out of wars. You do not get a ballot. Read the text anyway.
You are planning to entrust a country with your family, your money and your future, and this autumn that country publicly debates the most existential question a state has: how it stays out of other people's wars. You cannot vote. But you can read the actual text, and you should, because how a country decides this tells you more than what it decides.
Read on 12 August 202620 billion dollars, one bank, no backroom: inside the fight over UBS capital
You are thinking about moving your life and your money to Switzerland, and the financial press keeps telling you the country is at war with its own biggest bank. Before you let that headline rearrange your plans, look at what is actually on the table, who put it there, and what they agree on. It is not what the coverage suggests.
Read on 31 July 2026Washington set pharma tariffs at 100 percent. Switzerland pays 15. Study that gap.
You are about to move your life to a country of nine million that just went toe to toe with Washington in the worst trade climate in decades, and the headlines make it sound like Switzerland lost. Check the numbers in the documents before you believe that. The gap between the headline and the tariff schedule is where your decision lives.
Read on 30 July 2026HMRC just closed the book on the non-dom era. Here is what the last page says.
If you are British and planning your exit, you have read the exodus headlines and the reassuring columns, and you trust neither. Right. Here is what the legislation actually says, what HMRC's own figures actually show, and the one number that decides whether leaving even works.
Read on 16 June 2026The tax that would have followed you out the door, and the 78 percent who killed it
Your real fear about wealth taxes was never the rate. It is that one day the rules change, the change reaches backwards in time, and leaving no longer saves you. Switzerland just voted on exactly that design, clause by clause. Read what was actually in the text before you read the result.
Read on 28 May 2026Switzerland admits at most 8,500 workers like you per year. It decides the number every November.
You assume that if you are good enough, Switzerland will take you. Almost. Switzerland decides every November the maximum number of people like you it will admit the following year, writes that ceiling into an ordinance, and starts counting on 1 January. Here are the numbers for 2026, and the part of the system nobody tells you about.
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