Pierin Vincenz, the former CEO of Swiss banking group Raiffeisen, must pay a fine of almost CHF1 million for tax evasion, according to the SonntagsZeitung newspaper. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Swiss Federal Court ...

Visitors will be able to attend the inauguration of the restored Metzler organ at St Peter's Cathedral to mark the 490th anniversary of the Reformation in Geneva. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Two concerts are scheduled ...

Thousands of publicly accessible electric car charging stations can be found around Switzerland. However, the number and capacity utilisation varies greatly from canton to canton. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According ...

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has inaugurated the new Swiss embassy in Athens. It is designed as a "Swiss House for Culture, Research and Diplomacy" and brings together the embassy, the Swiss School of Archaeology and a cultural foundation un...

The traffic jam in front of the Gotthard road tunnel in Switzerland is continuing to grow rapidly on Saturday morning. In the early hours it was already 10km. Shortly before 10am the traffic jam in front of the north portal had already doubled in len...