Its shares, 52.7% of them owned by the Swiss cantons and cantonal banks, are listed on the Swiss stock exchange.
Health insurance is compulsory; though a legal framework has been established on the federal level, the health system is largely organized along cantonal lines, and health contributions vary considerably between cantons.
He does not like the redistribution of tax revenues among the cantons, or other proposals for harmonising various policies of cantonal governments.
Romansh, the standard language of Graubünden canton, has been a national language in Switzerland, used for cantonal but not federal purposes, since 1938.
The canton comprises the districts acquired by the city of Bern, the cantonal capital, between the 14th and the 16th century.
With local elections falling two years after the general and cantonal elections, no sooner have months of negotiations on power-sharing ended than electioneering starts again.Both the election and the opinion polls reveal a popular demand for change.
Some cantonal banks have looked at the possibility of trying to assert sovereign immunity as state-owned enterprises.
However, the Swiss cast their vote not only in federal, cantonal and communal elections but also in federal referendums on specific issues three or four times a year, as well as in cantonal and communal ones.
Travnik's cantonal government is beginning to function normally.
On February 11th elected members of Tuzla's cantonal assembly met its plenum to discuss the idea of a government of non-party experts.
One big home-made problem is a steep rise in recent years in public spending at all levels of government federal, cantonal and communal which has pushed up the public-sector deficit.
