The Swiss canton of Zug, where 36 percent of the local population are foreigners, has tightened its requirements around naturalisation including the language level needed.
People in Switzerland have become reluctantly accustomed to seeing the cost of their obligatory health insurance go up each year. But the canton of Zug is planning to reverse this trend.
Moving to Switzerland and can't decide between Zurich and Zug? We look at some factors to consider in these two cities, from the population to wages, rents and international connections.
Though this canton in central Switzerland is one of the most expensive places in the country, its high cost of living may be at least partially offset by the famously low tax rate — which is set to get even lower.
Switzerland is a country with many immigrants, but not necessarily an easy place to integrate. One canton has an integration program that helps immigrants learn about the country and make local friends, as writer Ashley Franzen experienced.
The Zug section of the populist Swiss People’s Party (SVP) filed a motion to require applicants for citizenship in the canton to have better German skills. Here's what's going on.
German tabloid Bild on Sunday compared the coronavirus situation in Germany and Switzerland, reporting that the freedoms in the latter made Switzerland a “coronavirus paradise”. But is it really?
Johnson and Johnson have denied claims by Swiss public broadcaster SRF that the company's Janssen Vaccine would be available to private companies in Switzerland.
Residents of the central Swiss canton of Zug have been sent forged letters, informing them that they must quarantine. Cantonal authorities have warned the population that such directions would not be carried out via mail.
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From Aargau to Zurich, we take a whistle-stop trip around the highlights for Switzerland's 26 cantons vising castles, lakes and mountains along the way.
Crossing the street too slowly and touching food before buying it: these are just two of the complaints about tourists raised by a local politician in the Swiss city of Zug.
We want our readers to help us get to know Switzerland better and would like to get your help for a new series of articles highlighting the benefits of life in different parts of the country.
The canton of Zug has rejected an initiative put forward last November to exempt rich foreigners from having to learn German if they want to be permanent residents.
Multi-millionaires wanting to become permanent residents in the canton of Zug could be exempted from having to learn the local language under a proposal put forward by cantonal authorities.
Markus Hürlimann has stepped down as the president of the right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP) in the canton of Zug following a sex scandal involving another politician, according to several reports.
A 47-year-old man from the canton of Aargau, found guilty of duping a wealthy Zurich woman into investing 44 million francs in a solar cell "invention", is appealing a court order to pay the money back.
The cantons of Zug and Zurich remain the most attractive places in Switzerland for companies to locate in Switzerland, according to a report from Credit Suisse released on Wednesday.
A Swiss prisoner jailed for violent crime in 2009 died on Wednesday after launching a hunger strike more than ten weeks ago to try to win his freedom, security authorities in the canton of Zug said.
Zug cantonal police are facing criticism for mishandling an investigation into the whereabouts of a 20-year-old Danish student, who went missing last Tuesday.
