The Swiss coffee brand Nespresso plans to trial paper-based compostable capsules next year in Switzerland and France. Nespresso, which makes home coffee machines, pods and accessories, will launch paper-based capsules that can be composted at home "...

Six members of the far-right Junge Tat movement unfurled a banner and set off firecrackers on the roof of Basel’s main train station on Sunday. Police later took them into custody. Cantonal police said it had received multiple messages reporting t...

Ignazio Cassis told delegates at the 18th summit of French-speaking countries that Geneva was a key player in the field of digital governance. In a speech on the closing day of the gathering in Djerba, Tunisia, Cassis made a sales pitch for the Swis...

After going into a second straight night of deliberations, the climate conference ended with an agreement to set up a long sought-after fund to pay developing countries for loss and damage resulting from climate change. Switzerland has yet to confirm...

The Bern native has won one of the country’ top literature awards for the debut novel, Blutbuch (Blood Book), a month after picking up the prestigious German Book Prize. In choosing this year’s winner, the jury singled out de l’Horizon for “...

One year after the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child adopted recommendations for the Alpine nation, no progress has been made in certain areas, according to Child Rights Network Switzerland. “It is high time that the federal gove...

Some ski lift companies are charging up to 15% more for passes this winter as high energy prices bite, a survey by CH Media shows. Out of 16 destinations surveyed, roughly two out of three will be charging more for ski passes than last winter, the n...

The army will mobilise 5,000 soldiers in an exercise, dubbed “PILUM 22”, that has taken two years to prepare. Four mechanised battalions, along with a logistics battalion and a mountain infantry troop, will undertake the training between Novembe...

Speaking to reporters on the eve of the football tournament, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said criticism of Qatar 2022 by Europeans was nothing but hypocrisy. Infantino began a press conference in Doha on Saturday with an hour-long monologue in w...

Ignazio Cassis signed an agreement on Friday for a second contribution to the small European Union state that will finance projects to the tune of CHF3.56 million ($3.73 million) until 2029. Cassis said the implementation plan for Switzerland’s fi...

Nine climate activists were handed fines ranging from CHF1,200 to CHF1,800 ($1,260-$1,900) for blocking access to Credit Suisse bank during a protest. Switzerland has seen a string of court cases relating to similar climate demonstrations, with vari...

Car hailing firm Uber will stump up CHF35 million ($37 million) in backdated social security and driver compensation payments to get back its license to operate in Geneva. The legal settlement follows a court decision earlier this year that the comp...

An influential parliamentary committee had decided against Switzerland adopting more sanctions against Iran on human rights grounds. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the Senate voted against a motion for Switzerland to follow European Union measures...

The number of illegal immigrants who have been picked up by police in Switzerland quadrupled in October compared to the same month last year. The Federal Customs and Border Security service said 7,891 people had been found living in Switzerland with...

A large-scale project to build a second road tunnel through the Gotthard mountain has run into problems due to the presence of underground military bunkers, Swiss media has reported. The Tages-Anzeiger wrote on Friday that at least one military bunk...

An arrangement between the central banks of Switzerland and Ukraine to allow refugees to exchange their hryvnia currency into francs has been discontinued. The facility was set up in June after arriving refugees found that Swiss banks were unwilling...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree confirming his country’s selection of Iryna Venediktova as the new ambassador to Switzerland. A document on the president’s website, reported by the Ukrainian state news agency Ukrinform...

A Ukrainian cybercriminal who US authorities have been chasing for a decade has been arrested in Switzerland. Vyacheslav Penchukov was arrested in October while he was visiting his wife near Lake Geneva, the Krebs on Security website first reported ...

The St Gallen Cultural Foundation has awarded a special prize to Milo Rau, the Swiss theatre director, writer and filmmaker, for his lifetime’s work. On Thursday, he received the “Great Culture Prize”, which is awarded every three years by the...

Switzerland and the United Kingdom have signed a deal on the mutual recognition of conformity assessments. It means that for certain business sectors, product testing by a British conformity body is no longer required for exports from Switzerland to ...

The virus has been detected in a grey heron and a peacock in canton Zurich, Swiss authorities say. The infected birds were located at Seuzach in canton Zurich. These are the first cases in Switzerland this winter, the authorities said on Thursday i...

The average price of a holiday home in the Swiss and French Alps rose by almost 6% over the past year as hybrid working and a desire to be closer to nature boosted demand, a ski property index reveals. Anyone who bought a chalet in the Swiss or Fren...

As the Friday deadline for the COP27 climate summit in Egypt looms, many contentious issues reportedly remain unresolved. Switzerland’s environment minister says there is still time to take effective climate measures. “It is a very difficult cli...

The pharma firm has decided to give the disputed doses to Switzerland for free, following a spat with regulators about pricing. The nasal spray, used to vaccinate children and youths against flu, was the source of tensions between British-Swedish As...

While a preoccupation with climate change remains, young people in Switzerland are becoming less keen to place their hopes in big street protests, a survey has found. Data from the gfs.bern research institute published on Wednesday show that in 2022...

The government has approved funding of CHF2.59 billion ($2.74 billion) for a large-scale clearing of an old ammunition depot in the Bernese Alps. The money for the clean-up operation will now head to parliament to be debated by the two chambers, the...

According to Switzerland’s highest court, Pierre Maudet acted improperly in accepting an all-expenses-paid trip to Abu Dhabi during his time as cantonal minister in Geneva. It’s the overturning of an overturning: after Maudet was found guilty by...

In case of a shortage, households and businesses which heat with piped gas would be asked to lower temperatures to 20°C, the government has said. The contingency scenario agreed by ministers is a slightly modified version of a four-stage plan annou...

The government has decided to curtail numbers arriving from the Balkan state by invoking a ‘safeguard clause’ for 2023. The decision comes less than a year after Croatians were granted unrestricted access to the Swiss labour market for the first...

A lack of transparency around the pricing of many top-selling Swiss drugs is also a problem, said an umbrella group of health insurers on Wednesday. The Curafutura association said that around a fifth of all medicine costs – some CHF8 million ($8....