The right-wing Swiss People's Party is once again proposing a debate in parliament on a ban on headscarves in schools. It wants to ban the wearing of the hijab for girls under the age of 16 with several motions. One of these proposals could find a ma...

Thieves stole luxury cars and licence plates on Saturday worth over CHF1.7 million ($2.1 million) in cantons St Gallen and Thurgau, Swiss police reported on Sunday. Police arrested three people from France. +Get the most important news from Switzerla...

The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Mirjana Spoljaric, has called on Switzerland to reaffirm its full commitment to international law, saying this is the most effective way to safeguard the security of its own popula...

The Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF) has awarded its Grand Prix 2026 to the Iranian satire Divine Comedy. The 40th edition of the festival set a new attendance record. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Grand P...

Switzerland will continue negotiating a trade agreement with the United States beyond the planned March 31 deadline, Swiss President Guy Parmelin said on Saturday on the sidelines of the Swiss People's Party's delegates’ assembly. +Get the most imp...

Philippe Lazzarini, the Swiss head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), is leaving after a bruising term defined by the Gaza war and sustained attacks on the agency. On his way out, he takes aim at Switzerland’s stance....

Around 4,000-5,000 people took part in an "anti-fascist carnival" on Saturday in Lausanne in western Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The second edition of the "anti-fascist carnival" was organised in the city ...

Fruit growers in canton Valais in southern Switzerland are anxiously watching the weather as frost threatens the region’s apricot trees. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "The first torches were lit around 11pm," Jean-Noë...

Heldin (Late Shift) by Swiss-Italian screenwriter and director Petra Volpe was chosen as the best feature of the year at the 2026 Swiss Film Awards in Zurich on Friday evening. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The film star...

The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) cut 83 asylum‑processing jobs at the start of the year due to a decline in new arrivals to Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox SEM cut 60 jobs involved in processing asy...

A huge shipment of 12 tonnes of KitKat - over 400,000 chocolate bars - was stolen last week in Europe while being transported by truck between production and distribution facilities. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Swi...

The Office of the Attorney General of canton Nidwalden has opened a criminal investigation into two employees of Titlis Bergbahnen as part of the probe into the March 18 cable car accident in the Swiss ski resort of Engelberg. +Get the most important...

Switzerland's secretary of state for economic affairs, says she is "worried" about the future of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Helene Budliger Artieda made the statement on the sidelines of the WTO ministerial meeting in Yaoundé, Cameroon, las...

This year the European Union will introduce handling charges for small parcels imported into the EU. The Swiss Retail Federation is calling on Switzerland to follow suit. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In a statement issu...

A vegan alternative to milk cannot mention the word milk, according to the Swiss Federal Court. In a public hearing on Friday, the judges rejected by four votes to one the appeal lodged by Danone, which was marketing a carton bearing the words "not m...

The average salaries of top managers in Switzerland rose further in 2025, with two earning more than CHF20 million ($25 million). But not everyone benefited from an increase. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox An analysis by ...

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) and its sister airline Edelweiss are increasing their fuel surcharges owing to the sharp rise in aviation fuel prices following the outbreak of the war in Iran. This was decided by the Lufthansa Group for its air...

Exhausted, lost, stuck: around 1,500 people were rescued unharmed in the mountains last year. This increase is striking, the Swiss Alpine Club (SAC) said in its mountain emergency statistics on Friday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in...

The payment app Twint remains popular with the Swiss public: according to a consumer survey, the company that runs it (Twint AG, Zurich) was confirmed as the company with the best reputation for the third time. +Get the most important news from Switz...

Just a few days before the Easter holidays, Switzerland is once again faced with a rapidly growing demand for eggs and a domestic production that cannot keep up. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Retailers do not expect a ge...

Flooding in Valais curbs Porsche production in Germany and light snowfall disrupts the electricity market: natural disasters often trigger invisible domino effects that can affect entire industries and remote regions. +Get the most important news fro...

The Solar Butterfly caravan is back in Switzerland after its world tour. In the course of a four-year journey, the solar-powered vehicle developed by Lucerne students travelled through 47 countries. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in yo...

Once again, the Swiss recorded music market achieved a year-on-year increase, with total sales of CHF259 million ($325 million). +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox After reaching a low point in 2015, the local music market gr...

Winter is back: fresh snow led to a number of road accidents in Switzerland on Thursday and caused a widespread power cut. In the evening, the Gotthard Tunnel even had to be closed owing to snowfall. But it will be spring-like warm at Easter. +Get th...

The WTO ministerial meeting in Yaoundé should be a time for coming together in the face of the current political tensions, according to Swiss President Guy Parmelin. On Thursday, via video link, he called on members not to postpone the urgent reform...

The use of chlorothalonil remains prohibited in Switzerland, the Federal Administrative Court ruled in a judgment published on Thursday. The judges rejected Syngenta's appeal, which contested Switzerland's ban on fungicides containing this substance....

Referendum and initiative committees in Switzerland can now sign up to a new code of conduct. The Swiss government claims a decline in cases involving fake signatures since the first criminal complaint was filed 3.5 years ago. The Federal Chancellery...

The war in Iran has driven fuel prices in Switzerland even higher. Within a week, the price of petrol rose by a further 5 centimes per litre. This is shown by analyses from the Touring Club Switzerland (TCS). Whereas a litre of unleaded 95 cost an av...

Faced with a major crisis in Swiss winegrowing, the canton of Geneva wants to introduce an alternative to uprooting grape vines. The canton will pay CHF 18,000 (about $22,741) per hectare per year to maintain the plots, but with no obligation to prod...

The Basel-Mulhouse airport run jointly by France and Switzerland has announced eight new destinations in its summer flight schedule for 2026. These include Bodrum (Turkey), Chisinau (Moldova), Lille (France) and Podgorica (Montenegro), as detailed in...