Bulgaria won the Eurovision Song Contest on Sunday with Dara's catchy floor-filler "Bangaranga" sweeping the 70th edition of the world's biggest live televised music event and pushing into second place Israel, whose participation had triggered a major boycott.

In Switzerland, each canton sets its own tax rates. But how much or little you pay will also depend on the local municipality in which you live. So which towns and cities are the most (and least) tax-friendly to their residents?

In Switzerland, when tenants move out, property owners can increase prices for the incoming renters. How can you find out how much previous tenants paid, and what can you do about unjustified increases?

Swiss households would pay higher taxes if SVP’s bid to cap immigration becomes law, and government says the immigration-capping proposal has some merits— these are among the news that The Local reported this week. You can catch up on everything in this weekly roundup.

The Swiss government and many economists believe the new package of agreements between Bern and Brussels – the so called ‘Bilaterals III’ - is crucial to Switzerland’s prosperity. But one expert thinks otherwise.

Switzerland’s government has outlined not only the downsides it sees if the ‘No to 10 million’ initiative passes in June, but also some potentially positive aspects of the proposal.

Government concedes there are some merits in the far-right's proposal to curb immigration; Geneva announces security measures ahead of the G7 summit; and more Swiss news in our Friday roundup.

German has more than one special word for the practice of taking a day off to make the most out of public holidays that fall close to a weekend. But which word should you use? That depends a bit on where you are.