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• Borrowing costs increase

  Switzerland is being pulled into a global surge in borrowing costs

• Majority reluctant to give up cars

  Only 6% of Swiss residents say they would be willing to sell their car to fight climate change

• Wide variation in property valuations

  Swiss homeowners are being warned that the same property can be valued by two different brokers with a gap of up to CHF 180,000

• VAT increase on pensions being considered

  Switzerland will decide on 29 November whether to raise VAT to pay for the 13th state pension

• Second language debate

  Switzerland is deeply divided over whether to make a second national language compulsory in primary schools nationwide

• Lake Geneva steamships at risk

  A majority of National Councillors want the Confederation to step in to rescue Lake Geneva's historic steamships