Six years after striking down a narrower ban, the Constitutional Court let a new law stand, provided schools treat it as a child-protection measure rather than a religious one.
A proposal to push French out of primary school and into secondary lost by three points, in a vote that French-speaking Switzerland watched as a referendum on national cohesion.
The 142 units, rented to nurses, teachers, and paramedics at half the market rate, are a small answer to one of Europe’s least affordable housing markets, and a model the city says it will repeat.