According to new statistics, 9.1% of those convicted were placed in a private facility, such as a psychiatric clinic, residential home or special care facility. Not all offenders in Switzerland serve their sentences in prison. At the end of March 20...

Switzerland will implement from 2024 the minimum tax rate for large multinational firms under a global tax deal. The federal government will get a quarter and regional and local authorities three-quarters of revenue, it said on Thursday, outlining ho...

The Swiss cities of Zurich and Geneva are the world’s third and sixth best cities to live in, respectively, according to an annual report from The Economist. Zurich moved up to third place – shared with Calgary, Canada – from seventh in the la...

German authorities say they have prevented a bomb attack in Switzerland after arresting two Swiss men suspected of recently trying to buy explosives in Stuttgart in southern Germany. On June 20, German special forces arrested two Swiss men, aged 24 ...

Four months after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Swiss residents continue to fear an escalation in the ongoing fighting, according to a new survey. Most of the 2,422 people who participated in a Link survey published on Thursday expressed ongoing c...

The Swiss Federal Railways has decided to issue security personnel on trains with bodycams due to increasing reports of passenger violence. The Swiss public broadcaster, SRF, on Thursday reported that body cams would be issued to rail police nationw...

The triangular chocolate bar will also be manufactured in Slovakia from the end of 2023. Toblerone’s parent company, confectionery giant Mondelez International, confirmed the Slovakian outsourcing plan on Wednesday, according to Swiss public radio...

Refugees with a special legal status will be able to exchange a limited amount of Ukranian banknotes for Swiss francs. The Swiss government on Wednesday announced that adults with a protection S status may exchange one amount of up to 10,000 hryvnia...

The government has presented plans for an upgrade of the country’s railway network, including an additional Alpine tunnel in western Switzerland. An additional CHF720 million ($745 million) - and a total of CH25 billion - have been set aside to up...

The government has earmarked CHF20 million ($20.7 million) to promote sustainable tourism and innovative projects in Switzerland. The funds, which still need approval by parliament, are also meant to boost digitalisation in the sector and city touri...

The KOF Swiss Economic Institute has revised downwards its growth forecast for this year and 2023. However, the unit of the ETH Zurich remains optimistic despite the war in Ukraine and rising inflation, according to a statement published on Wednesda...

A court in the Swiss town of Biel/Bienne has convicted Muslim preacher Abu Ramadan of welfare fraud and inciting racial hatred. Ramadan, a Libyan national, was given a 14-month suspended jail sentence and faces expulsion from Switzerland for six yea...

A British subsidiary of Swiss commodities giant Glencore on Tuesday pleaded guilty to seven counts of bribery in connection with oil operations in several African countries. At a court in London, Glencore Energy formally admitted to paying more than...

Swiss biotechnologist Madiha Derouazi has been awarded a prestigious European Inventor prize together with the French immunologist Elodie Benoue. The two scientists won the European Inventor Award jointly in the SMEs category from the European Paten...

Patients in Switzerland should be more involved in health care decisions, says the Federal Quality Commission in its first annual report published on Tuesday. There are also other “gaps” in the Swiss health system, including an overly sectoral a...

Nine out of ten Swiss citizens said at the beginning of the year that they feel secure and their optimism about the future has increased compared with 2021, according to a new survey. The latest edition of the annual report by the military academy a...

Switzerland still lags behind other European countries when it comes to the production of solar and wind power. The latest survey by the private Swiss Energy Foundation – an organisation pushing for sustainable energy – found Switzerland in posi...

President and Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis says the planned Ukraine conference is Switzerland’s contribution for stability in Europe. Cassis said the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC2022) was not meant as a donor event but as a step towards ref...

Cannabis generates an annual turnover of around CHF1 billion ($1.03 billion) in Switzerland, according to a new study. The figure, published by the University of Geneva on Monday, contains production, import and trade in the shadow economy as well a...

Officials have paid homage to Konrad Steffen, a prominent Swiss glaciologist who died in Greenland in 2020, by naming a glacier in the north of the territory after him. It was announced on Monday that three glaciers in Greenland had been named after...

Around 15% of the Swiss population could get infected this summer with new Omicron subvariants, warns the former head of the government’s Covid-19 taskforce. Tanja Stadler believes the risk of intensive care units becoming overloaded by this new w...

Swiss researchers have created a risk map of sub-Saharan Africa, based on population density and infrastructure, which they hope can help anticipate the spread of disease outbreaks. The research by the federal technology institute ETH Zurich and the...

While he is grateful for the Swiss organisation of the upcoming Ukraine Recovery Conference, Switzerland could do more to chase down Russian oligarchs, Artem Rybchenko says. Rybchenko, the Ukrainian ambassador in Bern, told the Blue News website tha...

Russian oligarch Vitaly Malkin plans to sue Credit Suisse for CHF500 million ($515 million) due to losses caused by a former employee of the bank, according to a newspaper report. The SonntagsZeitung writes that Malkin is chasing the bank in connect...

Huge crowds turned out for the Pride Parade in Zurich on Saturday, which this year focussed on the rights and challenges of transgender people. Organisers spoke of some 40,000 participants in the Swiss city, which would make it the biggest edition s...

The Swiss Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF has trained a computer programme to churn out avalanche forecasts which are just as accurate as those written by human forecasters. The artificial intelligence (AI) tool, trained with two decad...

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), located on the French-Swiss border near Geneva, has decided to end all cooperation agreements with Russia and Belarus when they expire in 2024 over their roles in the war in Ukraine. The CERN Co...

The pharmaceutical industry and several NGOs have criticised deals on vaccines and food security made at a six-day meeting of the Geneva-based World Trade Organization (WTO). The WTO’s 164 members agreed on a package of trade reforms in the early ...

The Swiss government has resolved to "step up" exploratory talks with the European Union aimed at resolving differences concerning future bilateral relations. Switzerland has repeatedly rejected EU demands to replace a series of separate treaties wi...

An attempt to mediate a dispute between crop science company Syngenta and a group of NGOs over the sale of an insecticide in India has acrimoniously collapsed. Both parties blamed each other for failing to make progress on resolving claims that Syng...