Posted on May 07, 2025 at 14:22. / Modified on May 07, 2025 at 6:00 p.m.
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The Confederation proclaims its attachment to federalism, but the facts tell a completely different story: that of a methodical disengagement vis-à-vis the so-called “peripheral” regions for the benefit of urban centers. As Yves Petignat explains so well in one of his very recent chronicles and published here, addressed “to those who pile up in trains”, demographic projections of the Federal Statistics Office (OFS) show a continuous concentration of the population around a few large poles: Zurich, the Lémanic Basin, Lucerne, Argovie, Saint-Gall.
The rest of the country, notably the cantons of Jura, Neuchâtel, Schaffhe or Appenzell Rhodes-Exterior, is promised to stagnation, or even hindsight. While some regions are depopulated, it is the major agglomerations that attract all flows.
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