Since Friday, the United States has abolished duty-free imports of goods with a value of less than $800 (CHF640). +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox President Donald Trump had initially cancelled the exemption for China, and ...

Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker has made his first official visit to Switzerland since taking office. The talks in Bern with Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter and Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis centred on bilateral relations. +Get the most i...

All 17 top projects of the Swiss armed forces are to be monitored by external consultants from the start of 2026, including the procurement of F-35 fighter jets. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Federal Department of D...

Two mountaineers have been found dead on the Weissmies peak in Switzerland after a lengthy search operation involving helicopters. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Several days earlier, one of the two men fell while descen...

Zug, Basel-City and Zurich top the list of Swiss cantons with the most competitive economies, according to a UBS study. Graubünden sits at the bottom of the rankings. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Cantonal Competit...

Eighteen Swiss health groups, including cantonal and university hospitals, have founded a national cyber-security centre to act as an early warning system against cyber attacks. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The cantona...

A police officer in the Swiss canton of Vaud has been linked to a racist WhatsApp chat group, which was uncovered as Vaud’s main city, Lausanne, erupted into rioting earlier this week. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A ...

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) has rejected contingency plans from too-big-to-fail bank PostFinance, which are designed to mitigate the damage of possible bankruptcy. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your in...

Swiss prosecutors have opted not to appeal the acquittal of former football officials Joseph Blatter and Michel Platini on charges of corruption. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The acquittal for fraud, embezzlement, mism...

Assets managed by Swiss banks reached record levels in 2024, fuelled by an influx of foreign clients escaping geopolitical uncertainties. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to a statement issued by the Swiss Banker...

Tariq Ramadan's Swiss conviction for rape and sexual coercion is definitive after the Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the Islamologist. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Thes guilty verdict against Ramadan had been init...

The threat of United States tariffs has dampened Swiss economic growth expectations for 2026. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Real gross domestic product (GDP) rose by just 0.1% on an adjusted basis compared to the starti...

Noah was the most popular first name for newborn boys in Switzerland, while Emma led the ranking for girls last year. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Emma overtook Mia, the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) announced on Th...

Switzerland is likely to stave off deflation despite the tariff uncertainties facing its economy, according to central bank vice- president Antoine Martin. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Speaking in an interview with new...

The development of 16 hydroelectric projects of overriding Swiss national interest has been delayed due to unforeseen difficulties. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The power stations, approved by the electorate in the Ele...

The number of flights over Swiss airspace has reached pre-pandemic levels. Punctuality has also improved, with 95% of all flights now on time. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In the first half of 2025, the Swiss air traff...

The wage gap between married mothers and fathers in Switzerland is significantly worse than that between single woman and men, according to a government report. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Married women earned 16% les...

After seven years of research, specialists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) have unveiled the secret of beer foam stability. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The results were published in the jour...

A 52-year-old man has confessed to stabbing his ex-wife and two daughters, aged ten and three, to death in Corcelles, canton Neuchâtel. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to expert reports, the victims died no lat...

Swiss Federal Railways wants to lease up to 40 high-speed trains for international connections to France, Italy and Britain. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The reason for this is the railway company's tight financial sit...

After two nights of rioting, calm has returned to the Prélaz district in the Swiss city of Lausanne. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Although there were a few people outside in the area at around midnight, the situation ...

The new football campus 'Swiss Football Home' is being built in Thun. The centre, based on an international model, will include pitches for the senior national teams and the headquarters of the Swiss Football Association. The aim is to make the city ...

The recovery of the small plane that sank on July 28 began in Lake Lucerne on Tuesday morning. The aircraft was stuck about a hundred metres below the surface with its nose in the silt. In the morning, it was pulled out of the silt and raised to arou...

Among other things, there are gaps in criminal and civil law protection against racism on the internet, a report published on Tuesday suggests. A lack of sufficient harmonisation in the implementation of measures was identified by the report that ana...

AI tools like ChatGPT continue to gain ground in Switzerland: for the first time, a majority of the Swiss population is using them. Younger people use AI more frequently than older people, and men also use it more often than women. According to the s...

The Swiss machine and engineering industry remains caught in a downward spiral. In the current year, the number of orders have continued to fall, as has turnover. The industry association Swissmem assumes that the order situation will deteriorate eve...

The Swiss agency for therapeutic products Swissmedic has warned against counterfeit, misleading or unauthorised weight loss products. They may contain undeclared substances that are harmful to health and may be of poor quality or incorrectly dosed. G...

There are more little owls living in Switzerland than there have been for 40 years. The owl species, which almost became extinct throughout Switzerland 25 years ago, now occupies 161 territories in Switzerland, the bird conservation organisation Bird...

The profit forecasts for the year as a whole have been adjusted upwards. Thanks to the increase in passenger traffic, turnover rose by 2% to CHF641 million, the airport operator announced on Tuesday. The flight segment increased by 4% to CHF327 milli...

Almost two-thirds of the Swiss population would like more freedom to choose their retirement age, according to a survey by Deloitte Switzerland. A large majority of those polled also expressed reservations about the pension system reforms proposed to...