The Swiss motorway system requires the purchase of a road tax disc-which costs 40 Swiss francs-for one calendar year in order to use its roadways, for both passenger cars and trucks.

Therefore, in its transportation policy the party endorses the expansion of the Swiss motorway network and is against the preference of public transportation over individual transportation.

* A35 motorway ( France ), a road connecting the German and the Swiss borders via Strasbourg

The A2 Swiss motorway begins at Chiasso.

The A3 belongs to the Swiss motorway network.

It is located at a hub of the Swiss rail and motorway networks.

The most important transversal, so to speak the backbone of the Swiss Plateau, is the A1 motorway that connects all the big cities going from Geneva over Lausanne, Bern, Zurich and Winterthur to St. Gallen.

In 2010, a report by Swiss MP Dick Marty claimed to have evidence that a criminal network tied to the Kosovo Liberation Army and the Prime Minister, Hashim Thaci, executed prisoners and harvested their kidneys for organ transplantation.

The Swiss road network is funded by road tolls and vehicle taxes.

From 1847, the Spanisch-Brötli-Bahn, the first railway on Swiss territory, connected Zurich with Baden, putting the Zürich Hauptbahnhof at the origin of the Swiss rail network.

The connection to the Swiss railway network in 1864 was important, as was the connection of mountain and valley with an electric tram at the beginning of the 20th Century.

Treni Regionali Ticino Lombardia ( TiLo ), a joint venture between the Italian Ferrovie dello Stato and the Swiss Federal Railways launched in 2004, manages the traffic between the regional railways of Lombardy and the Ticino rapid transit network via a S-Bahn system.

In May 2012, it was reported that Swiss and Italian police investigating " a network of personal and business relationships " allegedly used for " international corruption " were looking at the activities of Enviro Pacific Investments which charges " multi-million pound fees " to energy companies wishing to deal with Kazakhstan.

On the retail side, Popular Securities has an extensive network of brokers in Puerto Rico, rivaled only by Swiss giant UBS and more recently by Banco Santander.

The Swiss Federal Railways rail network is almost totally electrified.

The entire Swiss Federal Railways network was out of service during rush hour and an estimated 200, 000 people and 1500 trains were stuck at stations or somewhere on the track.

The Rhaetian Railway (,,, abbreviated RhB ) is a Swiss transport company, owning the largest network of all the private railways in Switzerland.

The Swiss Lancia dealer network offered an upgrade of 200Ps with full warranty for the 8-valve engine, up to 260PS with a reduced warranty.

It also manages the network of Swiss diplomatic and consular representations.

In 1974 Wilkes encountered a Swiss data network ( at Hasler AG ) that used a ring topology to allocate time on the network.

After several attempts to penetrate the network they succeeded in pressuring the Swiss to close it down ; this occurred in October 1943 when its radio transmitters were closed down and a number of key operatives were arrested.

* SWITCH Information Technology Services, the Swiss education and research network

With a state-funded annual budget of 4. 1 million Swiss francs and a staff of approximately 20, in addition to a network of contributors, WRS produces three live programs per day, amounting to nine hours of regular daily broadcast content.

In 1997, she hosted a talk show series called Gittes venner for a Danish TV network and some TV shows for RTSI, the Swiss television in the Italian language.

Baden is connected to the national express train network, the Swiss Federal Railways, at Mutschellen at the station named Berikon Widen on the Bremgarten-Dietikon-Bahn.

In 2002, Askon Beratung was spun off from Askon consulting as a separate, independently operating company within Altran, and the company's Swiss network had added a new component with the purchase of Sigma.

The 1847 to 1914 period saw the development of the Swiss railway network.

This is an unsolved problem which probably has never been seriously investigated, although one frequently hears the comment that we have insufficient specialists of the kind who can compete with the Germans or Swiss, for example, in precision machinery and mathematics, or the Finns in geochemistry.

One of Nikita Khrushchev's most enthusiastic eulogizers, the U.S.S.R.'s daily Izvestia, enterprisingly interviewed Red-prone Comedian Charlie Chaplin at his Swiss villa, where he has been in self-exile since 1952.

Statistically, Aarau has the most jobs per capita of any Swiss city.

2008 has brought announcements of new or additional sales to Singapore, Finland, Morocco and South Korea ; in December 2010 the Swiss government requested 150 AIM-120C-7 missiles.

The Bahamas has a few notable industrial firms: the Freeport pharmaceutical firm, PFC Bahamas ( formerly Syntex ), which recently streamlined its production and was purchased by the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Roche ; the BORCO oil facility, also in Freeport, which transships oil in the region ; the Commonwealth Brewery in Nassau, which produces Heineken, Guinness, and Kalik beers ; and Bacardi Corp., which distills rum in Nassau for shipment to the U. S. and European markets.

Located where the Swiss, French and German borders meet, Basel also has suburbs in France and Germany.

It has the oldest university of the Swiss Confederation ( 1460 ).

The Swiss chemical industry operates largely from Basel, and Basel also has a large pharmaceutical industry.

Since then, the Swiss People's Party has moved to the extreme right and is no longer considered to be conservative.

The Anti-Defamation League has accused them of manipulating issues such as immigration, Swiss neutrality and welfare benefits, awakening anti-Semitism and racism.

It has inspired a new genre, the Robinsonade as works like Johann David Wyss's The Swiss Family Robinson ( 1812 ) adapt its premise and has provoked modern postcolonial responses, including J. M. Coetzee's Foe ( 1986 ) and Michel Tournier's Vendredi ou les Limbes du Pacifique ( in English, Friday ) ( 1967 ).

His reference to gold washing in rivers has been taken as evidence for an early presence of the Helvetii in the Swiss plateau, with the Emme as being one of the gold-yielding rivers mentioned by Poseidonios.

Other products are Cenovis, a Swiss spread and since 1913, Vegex, a similar autolyzed yeast product has been available in the USA.

Article 58. 1 of the April 18, 1999, Federal Constitution of the Swiss Confederation ( official, French version ) provides that " Switzerland has an army.

For example, Switzerland is constitutionally a confederation of cantons, and has four official languages, but it has also a ' Swiss ' national identity, a national history and a classic national hero, Wilhelm Tell.

In modern times, the Swiss psychologist Carl Jung defined the mythological figure of Proteus as a personification of the unconscious, who, because of his gift of prophecy and shape-changing, has much in common with the central but elusive figure of alchemy, Mercurius.

A halberd ( or Swiss voulge ) is a two-handed pole weapon that came to prominent use during the 14th and 15th centuries but has continued in use as a ceremonial weapon to the present day.

The Swiss were victorious, and the Swiss Confederacy was proclaimed, and Switzerland has retained a republican form of government to the present.

Swiss cheese has a savory, but not very sharp, taste.

Since 1848, the Swiss Confederation has been a federal state of relatively autonomous cantons, some of which have a history of confederacy that goes back more than 700 years, arguably putting them among the world's oldest surviving republics.

From then, and over much of the 20th century, continuous political, economic, and social improvement has characterized Swiss history.

The Swiss government has been a coalition of the four major political parties since 1959, each party having a number of seats that roughly reflects its share of electorate and representation in the federal parliament.