Basic principles
The four basic principles – self-ownership & self-determination, the non-aggression principle, personal responsibility & freedom, and law –…
Read more →Positions
The philosophy of liberalism – that is our most important principle. We therefore derive all our positions and views logically from it. Below you will find concrete position statements on selected topics.
The role of the state
State coercion is an illegitimate encroachment on freedom and must therefore be rejected in principle. As an organised collective, the state may ex…
Read more →Organisation of the minimal state
Key pillars of a minimal state are the rejection of legal monopolies and federalism. Democracy is a means of limiting power and, in that sense, is …
Read more →Liberal core values
The liberal core values are the basis on which our philosophy rests.
Read more →Personal responsibility
One of the most important principles of liberalism is personal responsibility. Only a society in which everyone can decide for themselves does just…
Read more →Education
We campaign for free choice of school and for education that is separated from the state as far as possible.
Read more →Mobility
A country that wants to develop dynamically depends on efficient transport infrastructure. That efficiency, however, is undermined by current trans…
Read more →Taxes
At a rate of 59 per cent, we pay too much in taxes and levies. The room left for living costs and housing keeps narrowing. The state and the social…
Read more →Health
Switzerland has a good healthcare system, but one that shows problems in many places. Unfortunately, the methods by which politics seeks to solve t…
Read more →Surveillance
Massive surveillance on the internet, video surveillance in public spaces, the dismantling of banking secrecy at home: state control in every area …
Read more →Agriculture
Swiss agriculture is rightly known for the high quality of its products. Here too, however, political control means that outdated structures are pr…
Read more →International relations
Even though Switzerland likes to describe itself as «neutral», it is not really so. Through a jungle of international treaties and the payment of b…
Read more →Family
The best family policy is no family policy. People's ways of life are so different and so varied that there can be no single definition of the fami…
Read more →Pension provision
Politics is plainly failing to organise our old-age provision: the AHV suffers from the changing ratio between the generations, the BVG from mistak…
Read more →Public debt
We are already spending our grandchildren's money, because Switzerland affords itself one of the most expensive administrative systems in the world…
Read more →Housing
Rents in Swiss cities are considered very high. Politics therefore intervenes heavily in the housing market. Yet the scarcity of housing and the hi…
Read more →Work
Entrepreneurship Today, most young people look for a job with an existing company after their training, or even with the state. Hardly anyone wishe…
Read more →Environment
Sustainability Individual freedom and sustainable economic activity stand in tension with one another. A workable middle course must therefore be f…
Read more →Monetary policy
Our present monetary system has serious flaws. An almost unlimited expansion of the money supply and a policy of low or negative interest rates pro…
Read more →Taking your own life into your hands
People have unlearned personal responsibility. They can no longer decide about their own lives. And they no longer want to. That is why we urgently…
Read more →A citizens' pension instead of a pyramid scheme!
Imagine standing face to face with a robber who wants money from you. You ask him why he wants to rob you. He replies that he too was robbed many y…
Read more →Migration
Self-ownership includes the right of every person to settle in the place of their choice, and it forbids the state to use coercion against peaceful…
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