Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse is under the scrutiny of regulators over massive losses from the bankruptcies of British financial firm Greensill and US hedge fund Archegos. Switzerland’s Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) on Thursd...

The new Rhaetian Railway (RhB) trains have won two Red Dot Awards for product design. Designed by studio NOSE in Zurich, the “Capricorn” trains were created according to the specifications of the narrow-gauge railway in Graubünden in eastern Sw...

The Swiss government has presented a detailed timetable for relaxing Covid restrictions over the next few months. The proposals foresee three stages which are largely defined by the percentage of the population that has been vaccinated against the v...

The government has pledged CHF7.8 million ($8.5 million) over the next three years to help Swiss companies participate in major infrastructure projects abroad. The aim is to coordinate cooperation between the private sector and the government admini...

Gianni Infantino has condemned the “closed shop” European Super League and warned the clubs involved of the consequences. “We can only strongly disapprove of a Super League which is a closed shop, a breakaway from current institutions,” Infa...

German drugmaker CureVac has submitted an application for the approval of its Covid-19 mRNA vaccine with Swiss drugs regulator Swissmedic. Until now Switzerland has approved three vaccines, two of which are being used. Switzerland has already placed...

The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) says it is worried about Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's health. The opposition leader has been transferred to a prison hospital near Moscow after 20 days on hunger strike. The Swiss foreign ministry ...

Switzerland’s only national park, located in canton Graubünden, has been included on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)’s ‘green list’ of best governed protected areas in the world. Only 59 protected areas feature on...

Christoph Franz said he was in favour of compulsory jabs if vaccination coverage rates were insufficient and if there was a social consensus on the issue. "Solidarity is needed to overcome this crisis together," Franz said in an interview with the ...

The traditional burning of the Böögg snowman effigy bodes well for a warm, dry summer in Switzerland this year. Explosives planted in the Böögg’s head took 12 minutes and 57 seconds to decapitate the stuffed effigy. According to legend, the so...

For the first time in Swiss history, women make up the majority in a cantonal parliament. Voters in Neuchâtel have elected a local parliament compromising 58% women. In 2013, the Neuchâtel parliament was made up of 23% women while in 2017 it was 3...

Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny has been honoured by 25 NGOs in Geneva for his courage. He is currently imprisoned in Russia and has been on a hunger strike for three weeks. Navalny, a prominent opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin,...

Filippo Lombardi, vice-president of the Organisation for the Swiss Abroad (OSA), has been elected to the city council of Lugano in southern Switzerland. Lombardi, 64, is thus returning to politics almost 18 months after losing his place in the Senat...

Farming has been blamed for the dangerous decline of several Swiss plant, bird and insect species, including the Damon blue butterfly and whinchat bird. The agricultural research centre Agroscope found a richer biodiversity in mountainous regions th...

Over a third of employees worked from home at least some of the time last year as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Figures varied depending on the sector, with ICT (information and communications technology) workers putting in the most hours from h...

Swiss tennis great Roger Federer will take part in the Geneva Open in May for the very first time, it has been announced. Organisers confirmed the rumours of the star’s participation in the clay court tournament on Sunday. “The Gonet Geneva Ope...

There were 572 recorded cases of racial discrimination in Switzerland in 2020, according to figures released on Sunday. The coronavirus pandemic has shifted incidents closer to home. The highest number of cases - 95 - were at the workplace, said the...

Martin Ackermann, president of the government’s scientific Covid task force, has warned of a “significant risk” ahead of the relaxing of Covid-19 restrictions in Switzerland on Monday. He was referring to the fact that from April 19, restauran...

Swiss President Guy Parmelin says he is not going to rock the boat when he travels to Brussels on April 23 for talks aimed at trying to break a negotiating deadlock with the European Union. “I am not going to do a Boris Johnson in Brussels,” Par...

Almost 1,000 people gathered in the northern Swiss town of Schaffhausen to protest against government measures to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. The demonstration was peaceful, local police say. The demonstration, which was not authorised by the autho...

Switzerland would like to host a possible upcoming summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his United States counterpart Joe Biden, according to reports in the Swiss media. Overtures have already been made through diplomatic avenues, the...

Canada has been placed on Switzerland’s list of countries with an increased risk of infection by the coronavirus. Those arriving from Canada must go into quarantine. Announcing the move, which came into force on Friday evening, the Swiss Federal O...

Scientists in Lausanne have found that streams and rivers – or “running waters” – emit on average 27% more carbon dioxide (CO2) at night than during the day. The results have implications for how the global carbon cycle is calculated. The re...

The United States has removed Switzerland from its list of currency manipulators despite the Swiss National Bank (SNB) spending CHF110 billion ($119 billion) in the foreign exchange market last year. Reporting to Congress on Friday, the US Treasury ...

An investigation has confirmed cases of sexual harassment at French-language Swiss public radio and television, RTS. Two perpetrators have been sanctioned, it was revealed on Friday. The wide-ranging probe was launched last year by RTS (and SWI swis...

Business, tourism and trade union leaders have put forward an action plan to get Swiss air transport back in action as the coronavirus pandemic drags on. The “Back in the Air” plan was presented to Swiss President Guy Parmelin at Zurich airport ...

The European Commission (EC) has accused Switzerland of time-wasting and of failing to take responsibility for finding a solution to finalise an institutional “framework agreement” aimed at simplifying future ties between the two sides. The damn...

Swiss courts dealt with 52 major cases of economic crime last year that amounted to CHF355 million ($384 million) in losses, the consultancy firm KPMG said on Thursday. Public institutions were especially targeted by fraudsters. The total number of ...

Roughly half of Swiss workers want their employer to play an active role in encouraging staff to take the jab against the coronavirus, a new survey shows. Of the 1,500 people polled by the consulting firm Deloitte, 49% believed vaccination was a pri...

Pharmaceutical companies are currently among the most innovative firms in the world alongside tech and software giants such as Apple and Alphabet, according to the Boston Consulting Group (BCG). But Swiss pharma companies rank low in their latest Top...