The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has indicted former FIFA President Sepp Blatter with fraud and other offences after a six-year investigation into a controversial CHF2 million ($2.2 million) payment. The prosecutor’s office accuse...

The offer of a non-mRNA Covid vaccine in Switzerland has failed to speed up the government’s vaccination campaign, experts say. Virginie Masserey of the Federal Office for Public Health said about 22,000 doses of a viral vector vaccine from the Am...

The Swiss government’s centre for cybersecurity says the number of cyberattacks nearly doubled in the first half of this year. The National Cybersecurity Centre said a total of 10,234 incidents were reported – almost twice as many as in the firs...

A national conference attended by Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter is considering better protection for victims of violence in Switzerland. The one-day meeting focuses on possibilities of electronic monitoring and on child victims of domestic vi...

The SwissCovid app and the Covid certificate app enjoy a relatively high level of trust among the public, according to a survey. More than half of respondents expressed no reservations about using the computer software for the Covid certificate. The...

Swiss President Guy Parmelin has called on all countries to renew efforts to meet climate goals outlined six years ago by the Paris Agreement. Speaking at the COP26 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, on Monday, Parmelin said that glo...

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis officially opened the new extension to the Palais des Nations – home to the United Nations offices in Geneva. The new “H Building” took five years to build and is part of an CHF830 million ($905 million) r...

Life expectancy for people living in Switzerland has recovered dramatically from the pandemic induced dip, with mortality rates in 2021 poised to be at their lowest ever levels. Last year, with Covid-19 filling intensive care beds and resulting in 7...

Hundreds of artifacts littering a Roman battle site in Switzerland have been uncovered thanks to the persistence of an amateur archaeologist. The finds – including a dagger, well-preserved slingshot stones, coins, nails and part of a shield – ar...

Europe must prevent illegal immigration within the Schengen area, says Swiss Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter. If the European Union can’t protect its external border, there can’t be freedom of travel within Europe, she insists. Having recen...

Three restaurateurs in the Swiss mountain resort of Zermatt have been arrested for ignoring orders to shut up shop after refusing to check their clientele’s Covid certificates. On Sunday morning the police arrested the three owners. The establishm...

A survey of more than 23,000 Swiss residents has revealed that most prefer to pay little or nothing more for fuel, heating and flights with a view to reducing carbon emissions. The climate survey published on Sunday in Swiss papers revealed the gap...

Opponents of Covid-19 measures and vaccination certificates marched into the city on Saturday, as did counter-demonstrators. Those against Swiss pandemic measures chanted "Freedom" and called on citizens to vote against a controversial law setting t...

Four weeks before a nationwide vote on ‘strong nursing care’, nursing staff took to the streets demanding better working conditions. On Saturday afternoon, more than a thousand people marched to the parliament square in Bern in support of the so...

As the Covid vaccination campaign continues to stagnate in Switzerland, increasingly polarised attitudes about the pandemic are a major cause for concern, a new survey has revealed. The poll carried out by the Sotomo research centre on behalf of SRG...

Switzerland and the European Union have taken a first step towards the resumption of a political dialogue, with the announcement of a high-level meeting in Brussels on November 15. Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said on Twitter on Friday that...

Australia will reopen its embassy in the Swiss capital Bern in 2022 after a 30-year break, the two countries announced on Friday. Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis shared the news on Twitter, saying that it was a “significant step on the occas...

A two-day session of parliament has opened in Bern on Friday attended by 246 women to mark 50 years of suffrage in Switzerland. The female-only session will discuss various issues from equality and violence against women to science and digitalisation...

The violent storms that hit Switzerland this summer will cost the country’s insurance sector CHF2.2 billion ($2.4 billion), according to the Swiss Insurance Association (SIA). This represents the second largest payout since 2005. Natural disaster...

Immigration to the wealthy nations that make up the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) fell by nearly a third in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. The decline was less pronounced in Switzerland, where foreign profession...

One in three Swiss workers were over the age of 50 in 2020, according to the Federal Statistical Office (FSO). The unemployment rate for people in the 50-64 age bracket is lower than those between 25 and 49. In 2020, 1.65 million employees aged 50 o...

The Swiss National Bank (SNB)’s mission is not to make the world greener but to meet monetary policy goals, a top central bank official has declared. The Swiss central bank is regularly accused of lagging behind in green investments. But board mem...

Switzerland has not developed enough renewable energy over the past ten years, according to Environment Minister Simonetta Sommaruga. The country should be obliged to store more energy in winter to prevent future power outages, she said in an intervi...

The government plans to continue a number of measures to combat the Covid-19 pandemic next year. It called on parliament to extend the legal basis for the current policy beyond the end of this year, notably for the health sector, labour protection, ...

More than 1,000 unexploded ordnance objects were found in Switzerland in 2020, a rise of 60% on previous years. The pandemic – in a roundabout way – was behind the figures, the army says. Due to the boom in outdoor activities inspired by Covid-1...

Certified health workers in Switzerland say their jobs are often not compatible with family life. They also ask for more regular shift work and more flexible working conditions, according to a long-term study by the Zurich college of applied science...

People with a high risk of developing serious complications from Covid-19 may now receive a third vaccine booster jab, the Swiss medicines regulator has stated. Swissmedic cleared the use of boosters from vaccine makers Moderna (Spikevax) and Pfizer...

Less than 2% of all movies watched on video on demand (VoD) platforms in Switzerland were Swiss productions, according to official statistics released on Tuesday. Swiss films only made up 5% of the total 29,000 movies on offer by VoD providers in 20...

The Covid-19 pandemic has worsened gender inequalities in the world of work, according to an annual survey. Women are “significantly less satisfied” than men in all six categories that are monitored; four years ago this was the case only for stre...

A parliamentary sub-committee will examine the role of the police and judiciary in prosecuting a woman for attempting to blackmail Swiss interior minister Alain Berset. Parliamentarians will determine whether prosecutors acted appropriately or if th...