A group of NGOs has issued a criminal complaint against Swiss bank UBS for allegedly helping the former Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) president launder money out of the country. Swiss-based Public Eye, the Platform to Protect Whistleblowers...

France offered Switzerland a financial sweetener, worth an estimated CHF3.5 billion, to buy its Rafale fighter jets rather than US F-35A aircraft, according to a secret document seen by Swiss public broadcaster SRF. The document sheds light on backg...

Gazprombank has announced it may sell its Swiss banking branch as it explores “potential strategic options” for its business in Switzerland. “These options include, but are not limited to, potential divestment of selected assets or the sale of...

Judges at the Federal Criminal Court have acquitted former FIFA boss Sepp Blatter and ex-UEFA head Michel Platini of allegations of corruption and fraud. The judges said on Friday they found no proof of wrongdoing in relation to a CHF2 million ($2.0...

The implementation and value of protection status S, a permit that has been granted to people fleeing the war in Ukraine, must be evaluated quickly, says Swiss Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter. Speaking to the media on Thursday, Keller-Sutter sa...

Several professional football clubs in Switzerland were reportedly compensated twice for Covid-related losses and received around CHF10 million ($10.3 million) too much. Nine clubs from the Super League and the Challenge League – the two highest S...

The Swiss economy has recovered well from the Covid-19 crisis, but despite the free movement of people agreement with the EU, some sectors are struggling to recruit qualified staff, says a government report. The unemployment rate in spring 2022 retu...

The president of the Swissgas industry platform says Switzerland is not aware of how fragile the situation is and that “it would not take much” to lead to a winter shortage. André Dosé told the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) newspaper on Thursday...

An action thriller with Brad Pitt and Sandra Bullock is to kick off this year’s Locarno Film Festival. Bullet Train by David Leitch is one of 17 films to be screened on Locarno’s 8,000-seat open air Piazza Grande arena in the southern Swiss town...

New statistics from Switzerland show the abortion rate remained stable – and comparatively low – in 2021. Longer term, the average age of those terminating pregnancies is rising. A total of 10,869 abortions were recorded in the country in 2021, ...

The Swiss health authorities have called on people over the age of 80 to update their vaccination against the Covid-19 virus. A government advisory commission and the Federal Office of Public Health issued a recommendation also urging people with a ...

The Federal Office of Police (Fedpol) says a lack of information and awareness from civilian authorities slows down the fight against the Italian crime syndicates in Switzerland. Fedpol director Nicoletta della Valle said it is key that labour inspe...

For the first time the Fields Award, the “Nobel prize of mathematics”, has been given to two researchers in Switzerland for insights into sphere-packing and phase-transition theory. Maryna Viazovska from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology...

Switzerland will double its aid to Ukraine to CHF100 million ($104 million) by the end of 2023, Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis announced at the Ukraine Recovery Conference in the Swiss city of Lugano. He also freed up CHF15 million to support the c...

Ten years after it discovered the Higgs boson, the world’s biggest particle accelerator is poised to smash together protons at record energy levels at the CERN particle physics laboratory near Geneva, as scientists resume their search for clues to ...

An international conference on reconstructing post-war Ukraine has opened in the Swiss city of Lugano with the intention of creating a charter for recovery. Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis called on delegates to agree on a “Lugano Declaratio...

The price of household goods for Swiss consumers rose 3.4% in June compared to the same month last year, led by the surging cost of fuel and heating oil. “Inflation, which has de facto been absent for more than a decade, is back with a vengeance,�...

Yves Rossier, the former Swiss ambassador to Moscow, squarely blames Russia for the war in Ukraine, but he says the West and Ukraine made mistakes in the run-up to the war. “The blame for the war lies solely with Russia, that’s clear,” Rossier...

The Swiss authorities have dismissed reports about cyberattacks from Russia against the Swiss foreign ministry. The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) said it had no knowledge of targeted cyberattacks against Swiss government units or critical in...

The participants of the international conference in Switzerland on the reconstruction of Ukraine have reportedly agreed the principles of reforms. The NZZ am Sonntag newspaper reported that the planned final declaration of the Ukraine Recovery Confe...

Energy Minister Simonetta Sommaruga has warned of possible shortages of natural gas in Switzerland during the winter months. She said the government prepared made plans to prevent energy blackouts due to a drop in Russian gas imports in the context ...

The food giant had urged Swiss officials to lobby against junk food warning labels mooted by the Mexican government in 2019. Emails obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by Swiss public broadcaster RTS indicate that Nestlé had contacted t...

Same-sex couples have been advised to think carefully about how they achieve marital status if they want to apply for facilitated Swiss citizenship. Several couples have welcomed a change to the Swiss law to allow same-sex marriages by tying the kno...

Pulling out of Russia and Poland will cost Swiss industrial company Sulzer at least CHF125 million ($130 million) in depreciation costs, the group has announced. The sum will be booked in the company’s half year results, which will be published on...

Swiss biotech company Lonza has announced plans to build a large-scale plant that will focus on crucial stages of vaccine production. The Basel-based multinational, which supplies the pharma industry, expects the CHF500 million ($522 million) facil...

The Swiss financial regulator has partially lifted restrictions on the Swiss branch of Russia’s Sberbank so it can pay off non-sanctioned creditors. The Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) introduced protective measures for Sberbank Swi...

Swiss State Secretary Livia Leu and the Secretary-General of the European Commission, Ilze Juhansone, have signed a memorandum of understanding for Switzerland to pay a so-called cohesion contribution of CHF1.3 billion ($1.36 billion) to Brussels. C...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is highly unlikely to personally attend a conference in the Swiss city of Lugano next week that will discuss ways to rebuild the war-shattered country. Instead, Zelensky will probably address international dign...

The Swiss authorities have been censured for failing to implement measures that are designed to protect the country’s groundwater. The parliamentary Audit Committee of the House of representatives said on Thursday that only CHF8 million ($8.4 mill...

Switzerland’s central bank is buying lower volumes of foreign currencies to support the franc as it balances the needs of exporters with the rising cost of goods. The Swiss National Bank (SNB) shelled out CHF5.7 billion ($5.9 billion) in the forei...