Swiss cantons have very different tax bases, tax rates and spending. Until 2008, all cantonal taxes remained within cantons. Since then rich cantons have been required to support poor ones via the national financial equalisation mechanism. Next year, every French-speaking canton, with the exception of Geneva, will receive a financial boost from their wealthier German-speaking
Switzerland has invited over 160 delegations "at the request of Ukraine", including countries from the G7, G20, BRICS and numerous other countries as well as the EU, UN, OSCE, the Council of Europe and representatives of the Vatican and the Patriarch of Constantinople.
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