Switzerland and France are strengthening cooperation between their judicial, police and customs authorities to step up the fight against cross-border crime, Swiss authorities have announced. “Currently, highly mobile, organised international crimi...

The luxury Swiss watch brand Rolex hopes to invest CHF1 billion ($1 billion) in a new production site at Bulle in western Switzerland that should result in 2,000 new jobs. The watchmaker hopes to build a new production site at Bulle in canton Fribou...

Switzerland’s police, judiciary and social welfare services need to strengthen levels of trust among women who are victims of violence, a government minister says. Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter on Monday launched a nationwide initiative tha...

A 20-year planning process has finally resulted in drilling being commenced at a Swiss geothermal project, designed to heat up to 3,000 homes. The project in the French-speaking part of Switzerland is one of 20 such plants envisaged by the western c...

Swiss International Air Lines aims to hire 1,500 new staff to keep up with surging demand for flights after the lifting of coronavirus lockdowns. The airline is focusing on cabin crew during in its hiring spree next year, including 1,000 flight atte...

Managers of a foundation set up to manage $3.5 billion (CHF3.34 billion) in frozen Afghanistan central bank funds are meeting for the first time in Geneva. A Swiss government spokesperson confirmed the meeting to the Reuters news agency on Monday. ...

The Swiss national football team has backed down in the face of sporting sanctions on a pledge to have their captain wear a World Cup armband sporting the “OneLove” message of diversity and inclusion. FIFA, world football’s governing body, has...

A Swiss-British deal, granting access of consultants, engineers and IT workers to each other’s markets, will be extended until the end of 2025. Some 4,000 British professional services providers have made us of the 90-day market access facility si...

A large infestation of Asian long-horned beetles, which causes major damage to trees and forests, has been reported in central Switzerland. The Swiss authorities said numerous trees infested with Asian long-horned beetles had been discovered in Zell...

The head of the Swiss Federal Electricity Commission (Elcom) says the risk of energy shortages this winter has not been completely averted and it is important to keep saving electricity. Europe’s gas storage facilities only cover half of winter de...

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 ...