Swiss manufacturer Burckhardt Compression has announced up to 220 job cuts, of which 150 will be in Switzerland and 70 at international sites. In addition to the job cuts, the organisational structure is to be simplified, selected functions consolida...

After a break of almost four years, Switzerland is resuming the transfer of asylum-seekers arriving from Italy. "The first flights have been booked," Magdalena Baker, spokesperson for the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM), confirmed to Swiss publ...

A study by Agroscope Zurich and the University of Hohenheim, Germany, shows a significant decline in wild honeybee colonies in Europe. The honeybee is classified as critically endangered, the Swiss organisation FreeTheBees announced on Tuesday. The o...

A Ukrainian man who was arrested in Switzerland and extradited to Germany was sentenced on Tuesday to 15 months’ imprisonment for espionage. According to the prosecution, he had been planning arson attacks on behalf of Russia. The Stuttgart Court o...

The Swiss Senate’s Political Institutions Committee has gone further than the government on the issue of the safeguard clause relating to immigration within the Switzerland–EU package of agreements. It has introduced an incentive tax as an additi...