Last Friday, a Swiss parliamentary committee backed a plan to relocate some Eritreans with rejected asylum applications to a third country, such as Rwanda. Questions remain on the feasibility of ...
Switzerland will not be participating in the European Copernicus programme to monitor climate change from 2021 to 2027. The reason for this is the strained state of federal finances, according to...
Rejected asylum-seekers and young undocumented migrants in Switzerland will have easier access to basic vocational training from June 1. From this date, they will only need to have attended compu...
Russian star soprano Anna Netrebko will not be performing in Lucerne. The concert on June 1 at the KKL Culture and Congress Centre has been cancelled owing to pressure from the Lucerne government...
Family members of people temporarily admitted to Switzerland should in future be able to join them after two years instead of three. The proposed amendment to the law is the government’s respon...
2023 was a record year for the Rhaetian Railway in several respects. Never before has the narrow-gauge railway in Graubünden, eastern Switzerland, transported so many passengers and cars. The pr...
A new four-legged robot with artificial intelligence can seamlessly change its gait. With the aim of avoiding falls, the robot from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) switc...
Last year, more racist incidents were reported in Switzerland than ever before. For the first time, the majority of reports did not concern incidents in the workplace, but incidents in schools. A...
Chief financial officers (CFOs) in Switzerland are more optimistic about the near future than they were six months ago. Their main concerns are geopolitical uncertainty and the important trading ...
Labour Day events are being held across Switzerland on Wednesday under the slogan “Premiums down, wages up!”. Following the success at the polls of the 13th monthly pension payment in March, ...
More organ donations were recorded in Switzerland in 2023 than ever before. This was despite a high rejection rate of 58% by surviving relatives. The annual report published on Tuesday by Swisstr...
The landmark ruling that condemned Switzerland for climate inaction confirmed governments’ obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But what about their liability in the face of climate-r...
Seven years after the death of record-breaking Swiss mountain climber Ueli Steck, his estate is going to the Alpine Museum of Switzerland in Bern. Steck’s partner Nicole announced on Tuesday th...
Dominic Nahr, known for his war reportages, is the big winner of the Swiss press photography awards this year. We take a look at some of his work and that of other photographers. Nahr, 40, was bo...
The European Union’s (EU) New Pact on Migration and Asylum aims to curb irregular migration within Schengen, Justice Minister Beat Jans said in Ghent on Tuesday. The head of the justice ministr...
A people’s initiative launched on Tuesday has called for the legalisation of growing and selling cannabis. The committee includes unnamed individuals from German-speaking Switzerland. The peopl...
Thanks to well-filled gas stores in Europe and increased availability of French nuclear power, the Swiss Federal Electricity Commission (ELCOM) is optimistic about the coming winter. However, unc...
A Swiss parliamentary committee has called for partially resuming support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) – but has imposed condit...
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Apple has poached dozens of artificial intelligence experts from Google and has created a secretive European laboratory in Zurich, as the tech giant builds a team to battle rivals in developing n...
Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter has repeated calls for banks and their holdings in subsidiaries abroad to hold more equity. She argued that more equity capital would make it easier to wind u...
Last year, the Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) conducted 27 investigations and initiated 17 preliminary investigations. Its most recent decision was to set telecoms firm Swisscom a deadline ...
Although Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) achieved higher revenue at the start of the year, it suffered a dip in profits. Operating profit fell to CHF30.7 million ($33.6 million) in the firs...
In bilingual cities like Biel/Bienne or Fribourg, the proportion of French-speakers is growing at the expense of German. Why? Overall, the proportion of German speakers in Swiss cities has declin...
In the wars in Ukraine and in the Middle East, new, autonomous weapons are being used. Our Inside Geneva podcast asks whether we’re losing the race to control them – and the artificial intell...
China’s rapidly ageing population and a growing middle class are opening up new opportunities for two Swiss medical companies who are targeting the country as their next growth market. Many cou...
A week after a steamboat on Lake Lucerne was recognised as a “treasure of European film culture”, we take a scenic cinematic tour of films in which Switzerland’s natural beauty and landmark...
Switzerland should do away with “restrictive” animal testing. On Monday, five organisations submitted a petition in Bern with over 40,000 signatures in favour of "pain-free animal" scientific...
Two petitions signed by around 45,000 people are calling on the Federal Council and parliament to secure funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). The...
At the end of January 2024, 6,881 men and women were behind bars in Switzerland. This is 7% more than a year ago. The occupancy rate has risen to its highest level in ten years. The number of pri...
The number of cases of child abuse recorded in Swiss paediatric clinics rose to 2,097 in 2023, an all-time high. This significant increase (+13% from 2022) is mainly due to improved recording. Ca...
According to the Swiss Trade Union Federation (SGB), income policy in Switzerland is heading in the wrong direction. While top salaries continue to rise, low and middle salaries are stagnating in...
Recently, there have been multiple arrests in Germany linked to suspected espionage for China. Similarly, a case has gained attention in Switzerland: a former hotel manager in Meiringen, a munici...
The storm that hit La Chaux-de-Fonds in canton Neuchâtel on July 24, 2023 caused more damage to buildings than previously thought. The insurance company for cantonal buildings estimates the dama...
People in Switzerland spent CHF2.17 billion ($2.38 billion) on sporting goods last year. This was 1.5% less than in the previous year, according to Swisspo, the specialist agency for sporting goo...
The International Committee of the Red Cross will not replace the UN Palestinian Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). "We already have enough to do without trying to replace other organisations," sai...
Zurich Airport expects a long-term annual rise in passenger numbers of 2%. Its director, Lukas Brosi, explains how rising demand can be met without necessarily increasing flights and without comp...
The Swiss Youth Hostel Association (AJS) has reported a record number of overnight stays in 2023. While Swiss guest proportions rose by 3.1 points from 2019, there was a minor decline for interna...
Reports of racist incidents in Switzerland rose by almost a quarter in 2023, according to the annual report of the counselling centres published on Thursday. Of the 876 recorded cases, the majori...
The Swiss Evangelical Reformed Church intends to conduct a study on sexual abuse, and it submitted an application to the church parliament this week, said President Rita Famos in an interview on ...