Rudolf Hauri, president of the cantonal doctor’s association, has said that while the autumn wave may not yet have peaked, he is not expecting the same difficulties as in past years. The virus has become “less frightening”, he said. In an inte...

Three out of five serious accidents last year occurred on two wheels. Accidents involving young people on motorbikes and e-bikes have increased in particular, according to the Swiss Council for Accident Prevention (BFU). Since last year 16- and 17-y...

The large influx of refugees has filled accommodation centres to bursting point, obliging the Swiss authorities to distribute a greater number of asylum seekers to cantons to house. Switzerland expects to see 22,000 asylum applications by the end of...

Online speech and face recognition digital systems should be better regulated to protect consumers, a Swiss technology think tank has recommended. Virtual assistants that react to voice commands, such as Alexa, can bring both benefits and hidden dan...

Switzerland will begin its two-year term at the United Nations Security Council table on January 1 sitting between Russia and the United Arab Emirates. According to a plan unveiled on Monday evening by a website specialising in Security Council proc...

The global community should formulate concrete steps to help Ukraine recover from its invasion by Russia, said Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis. Cassis, who holds the rotating Swiss presidency this year, advocates action similar to the US Marsh...

One year after the Women’s Session 2021, an alliance of women’s organisations has drawn a positive assessment of the exercise: half of the 23 petitions submitted on that occasion have been processed or are well on the way to being processed. In ...

Two projects in the running for a future national exhibition, Nexpo and X27, have signed a declaration of cooperation, they announced on Tuesday. This opens the door to a joint bid. For the seventh national exhibition in Swiss history, “the spirit...

The Federal Audit Office has reviewed what the financial aid during the Covid pandemic has brought to the Swiss industry. It is satisfied with how the money was spent. Self-employed people received more than CHF2.5 billion ($2.5 billion) from the au...

The Swiss Film Archive in Lausanne is paying tribute to the Italian film director and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini on the centenary of his birth with the screening of five films next month. Pasolini, who was born on March 5, 1922, and murdered in myst...

Ticket prices for Swiss public transport will remain stable for 2023 for the seventh consecutive year. Only “a few tourist businesses” are planning to adjust their fares for next year, says the SwissPass Alliance. In addition, from December 11, ...

The inhabitants of Vernier, a municipality in Geneva, are set to have their say on banning advertising billboards. A referendum launched against a new law banning this form of communication has collected 2,300 signatures, the co-chairman of the refe...

More than a third (38%) of Swiss don’t follow the news. Young adults in particular are no longer interested in current affairs, according to an annual survey of the Swiss media landscape. This is a problem for democracy, as people who don’t foll...

More than a third of the extra-parliamentary activities of Swiss federal parliamentarians are paid for by companies or associations. Centre-right and right-wing politicians have significantly more paid mandates than their colleagues on the left, acc...

Credit Suisse Group and the French financial prosecution office have agreed to settle a tax fraud and money laundering case in France with a €238 million (CH234 million) payment to the state, a French court heard on Monday. The settlement still ne...

The pilots of Swiss International Air Lines have decided to drop plans for a strike to press for better working conditions. The pilots' association Aeropers and airline management reached an agreement at the latest round of negotiations over the wee...

The Art Basel art fair looks back on a successful first edition in the French capital, Paris. Around 40,000 people visited the fair at the Grand Palais Ephémère on the four public days and the preview day. The fair's management also reported "stro...

Switzerland should initiate the abolition of the major powers’ right of veto during its two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council, suggests former State Secretary Michael Ambühl. From January 1, Switzerland will be one of ten non-perma...

Leading Swiss brands have withdrawn from Russia because of the war in Ukraine. However, research by a Swiss newspaper shows that while a company can leave a country, its products often remain on shelves. “It’s a mass exodus. Since Russia invaded...

With exactly one year to go before the federal elections, the Swiss People’s Party, the Radical-Liberal Party, the Liberal Green Party and the Green Party have set out their stalls and their ambitions. The Liberal Greens and the Greens are each cl...

Retiring Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer has tried to explain a controversial comment on gender-neutral people – in which he said he doesn’t want to be replaced by an “it” – by saying it was a deliberate provocation. Maurer, 71, from th...

Several climate activists from Renovate Switzerland temporarily blocked the Mont Blanc Bridge in Geneva on Saturday. They called on the government to speed up the thermal renovation of buildings. The blockade of the road near the bridge at the railw...

Two men’s World Cup downhill ski races that were to start in Switzerland and finish in Italy have been called off owing to a lack of snow on the final 300 metres of the course following an unseasonably warm autumn. Added to the calendar this seaso...

A 48-year-old businessman in Geneva has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence for making a fraudulent claim for a Covid loan that was 100 times the correct amount. He was found guilty of fraud and forgery of documents. “You expressly dec...

Swiss Economics Minister Guy Parmelin assumes the energy crisis will last several years. It is important, he says, not only to think about the winter, but to do everything to ensure that Switzerland produces more energy – that means more renewable ...

Despite worries about power shortages, the light spectacle “Rendez-vous Bundesplatz” will take place again this autumn. For five weeks, starting on Saturday, the show can be seen almost every evening. However, unlike previous years there will be...

Swiss President Ignazio Cassis thanked his Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu for her country’s solidarity with Ukraine at a meeting in Chisinau, capital of Moldova, on Friday. The meeting focused on the consequences of the war in Ukraine and the hum...

Two exhibitions opening on Saturday at Basel Fine Arts Museum (Kunstmuseum) highlight not only important works but explain some of their links with the Nazi era. One of them focuses on Curt Glaser, the Jewish art collector and curator who was persec...

Independent UN experts said on Friday that Switzerland has made advances in certain areas but needs to invest more in others. Speaking at a meeting in Geneva of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), they welcome...

Ground staff at Swiss International Airlines (SWISS) have reached agreement with the company on pay rises from January. "The significant wage increases from January 1 suggest that management has, at least for ground staff, recognised the need to mak...