Switzerland will participate in the World Expo 2025 in Osaka, Japan. Parliament approved the CHF17.6 million ($18.7 million) budget for the Swiss Pavilion on Thursday without opposition. The budget for the 2020 World Expo in Dubai was CHF15 million....

An activist group erected protest billboards in FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s Swiss hometown of Brig on Wednesday to demand world football’s governing body compensate migrant workers for alleged human rights abuses in Qatar, host of the footb...

Many retirees in Switzerland can continue to put money aside, with a majority also willing to bequeath the money they have saved. Specifically, 34% of the people surveyed in Switzerland aged 65 and over are building up assets instead of reducing the...

Organisers of a referendum against a law banning advertising billboards in Vernier, a municipality in Geneva, have failed to collect enough valid signatures. Street advertising therefore remains illegal there. In October the co-chairman of the refer...

Switzerland’s 26 cantons will receive 75% of the additional revenue from the minimum taxation of large companies, the government 25%. On Tuesday the House of Representatives agreed with the Senate on the proposal to tax all companies with a turnov...

Third-generation foreigners living in Switzerland should be able to become Swiss more easily, according to the House of Representatives, which on Tuesday voted to accept a parliamentary initiative from the responsible committee. The issue now goes t...

Interior Minister Alain Berset will take on the rotating role of Swiss president next year, parliament has decided. As expected, current vice-president Berset was selected from the seven-member executive body to start his second term as president fr...

The war in Ukraine and sporting events had people heading for search engine Google more than anything else this year. The search terms of the year were “Ukraine”, followed by “WM 2022” for the football World Cup, currently underway in Qatar, ...

Switzerland's parliament has appointed two new ministers to replace outgoing members of the country’s seven-member government. Albert Rösti of the right-wing Swiss People's Party and Elisabeth Baume-Schneider of the left-wing Social Democratic Pa...

A 6-1 hammering by Portugal has brought an end to Switzerland’s football World Cup adventure in Qatar, with the Swiss media criticising both the tactics of manager Murat Yakin and the performance of the team, whose meagre attack was as much to blam...

The number of fatal accidents while freeriding – skiing off-piste – doubled last year compared with the average of previous years. To reduce the risk when skiing in deep snow, the Swiss Council for Accident Prevention recommends using marked free...

A total of 71 bands are scheduled to perform at the Gurten music festival on Bern’s local mountain next July. Almost two dozen were announced by the organisers on Tuesday. German rockers Die Toten Hosen, Belgian pop singer Angèle and US artist Li...

The current heads of the Zurich cantonal department of justice are not responsible for the data leak between 2006 and 2012 in which sensitive data is said to have come into the hands of criminals involved in drugs and prostitution. An external admin...

Online media replaced television as the most influential media genre in Switzerland for the first time in 2021, according to a study. Large brands such as 20 Minuten and Swiss public radio and television, SRF, lost influence in favour of smaller titl...

The Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) has increased the tariff quota for butter by 3,000 tonnes from January 2023. The domestic butter supply remains insufficient to cover demand in Switzerland next year, according to industry estimates. The mil...

Credit Suisse is “definitely stable”, Chairman Axel Lehmann has told Swiss public television, SRF, adding that the embattled bank had seen a stabilisation in the outflows of client funds. The bank has reported sharp outflows as wealthy clients m...

Amnesty International has welcomed a decision by one chamber of the Swiss parliament to redefine rape as sex without consent. The organisation said the decision by the House of Representatives was a crucial step to protect victims against sexual vio...

Football's world governing body FIFA has brought disciplinary charges against Serbia for alleged misconduct by players and fans during a World Cup match against Switzerland. However, it stopped short of launching a probe against the Swiss team or it...

New figures show that men and women in Switzerland did unpaid work worth CHF434 billion ($463 billion) in 2020. Women volunteers accounted for 60% of the total 9.8 billion hours of unpaid work completed, according to a statement by the Federal Stati...

Police in western Switzerland have detained two suspects and questioned another 96 people in a large-scale operation against child pornography. The operation was carried out from the beginning of September to the end of October, as the Vaud cantonal...

Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan will have to stand trial in the Swiss city of Geneva next year accused of rape and sexual coercion. Justice officials and lawyers of the parties confirmed that the 60-year old will be tried following four years of inves...

Hotel owners reported a sharp rise in overnight stays last summer compared to the previous year. But overall figures were still lower than for summer 2019, before the Covid-19 pandemic. The Swiss hotel sector recorded 22.4 million overnight stays be...

Inflation in Switzerland in 2023 is expected to remain above the Swiss National Bank's (SNB) target range, according to the leading Swiss business umbrella organisation. Economiesuisse said that although the country's economy would likely avoid a re...

Swiss-based Glencore said on Monday it would pay $180 million (CHF168 million) to the Democratic Republic of the Congo as part of an agreement covering all present and future claims to alleged corruption by the mining firm in the country between 2007...

The Swiss Competition Commission (COMCO) has opened an investigation into whether dozens of banks were sharing information about what they pay some staff. “A large number of banks in the German-speaking part of Switzerland regularly exchange infor...

Work stoppages due to mental illness are at a record high in Switzerland. According to an assessment cited on Sunday by the NZZ am Sonntag, work breaks due to mental health issues have increased by 20% this year compared to 2021. According to Andre...

A 24-year-old man fell to his death after being swept away by an avalanche at Piz Radönt in canton Graubünden. Three people in a group of four were swept away by an avalanche on Saturday at Piz Radönt mountain in the Albula Alps. One of them fel...

Child abductions by a parent have been on the rise for the past ten years in Switzerland. The increase in bi-national unions is one cause, according to Le Matin Dimanche, citing data from the Federal Office of Justice (FOJ). In 2011, 35 requests f...

The centrist party wants the government to negotiate Swiss membership of the EEA. The Liberal Greens want Switzerland to reattempt to join the EEA agreement. The previous attempt was rejected by the Swiss people in 1992. The party will table a mo...

Switzerland's Federation of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) has raised concerns about possible violations of subsidy law by the Swiss Post. The SME umbrella association has written to the Swiss Federal Audit Office (SFAO) to ask it to con...