The Swiss multinational Nestlé's Spanish subsidiary is to invest €15 million (CHF14.3 million) in its Nescafé factory, which produces instant coffee and Nescafé Dolce Gusto capsules, in Girona near Barcelona. The aim is to develop more recyclabl...

Malfunctions led to a worldwide outage of the social media platform service X (formerly Twitter) several times on Monday. The website was temporarily unavailable to users, including those in Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland ...

The Swiss bank UBS was fined €75,000 (CHF71,410), the maximum penalty, in Paris on Monday for moral harassment by its French subsidiary of two whistleblowers, who had denounced the tax evasion system organised by the bank. +Get the most important n...

Wildlife wardens in the eastern canton of Graubünden, together with hunters, shot 48 wolves between September 2024 and January 2025, in an effort to reduce attacks on livestock during the next grazing season, the canton said on Monday. +Get the most...

The Glarus high court must re-examine an asbestos compensation case, after the Federal Court approved the survivors' request for a revision of its decision. The European Court of Human Rights had condemned Switzerland in February 2024 for failing to ...

Singer-songwriter Zoë Më, who hails from Fribourg, will represent Switzerland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2025 in Basel, the city where she was born. She unveiled her ballad Voyage on Monday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your...

The Swiss government's reaction to the current crisis in multilateralism is not congruent with what is at stake for International Geneva, says the head of the Geneva Government. In her opinion, Switzerland's image risks being weakened. +Get the most ...

At the stroke of 4am on Monday, the street lights went out in Basel's city centre for the carnival kick-off, known as Morgenstreich. In dry weather, the streets and squares were transformed into a sea of lanterns, accompanied by the sounds of piccolo...

Due to strikes at airports in Germany, 66 flights were cancelled at Zurich airport on Monday. From Geneva, all 14 flights heading to Germany were cancelled, according to the Geneva airport website. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in you...

The United States has placed Switzerland on a list of countries with "unfair trade practices". +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The blacklisting was confirmed by the Director of the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (S...

The German Verdi union began a strike at Hamburg Airport on Sunday, one day earlier than announced. With no departures or arrivals all day, Swiss International Air Line flights are also affected. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your ...

Leading German politicians are putting pressure on Switzerland to further increase defence spending, according to the SonntagsZeitung newspaper. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Swiss parliament has already decided to d...

Swiss state-owned telecommunications operator Swisscom has to defend against 200 million cyberattacks on its own infrastructure every month. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This corresponds to around 77 cyberattacks per se...

International Women's Rights Day saw some 4,800 demonstrators march in the Swiss cities of Lausanne and Geneva on Saturday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In Lausanne, the Vaud feminist strike collective called for a marc...

The Swiss watch industry is going through difficult times. Suppliers of watch movements and the canton of Jura are suffering particularly badly. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox At Atokalpa, a company in the Jura municipali...

Around 1,000 people gathered on Zurich's Paradeplatz on Saturday afternoon for an unauthorised demonstration to mark International Women's Day. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Groups from left-wing autonomous circles had c...

Swiss Federal Railways plans to create several new lines to connect Europe, including a direct line to London that could be operational as early as 2030. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox However, several adaptations are nec...

Dismantling diversity programmes is a backwards step for equality, warns former Swiss government minister Simonetta Sommaruga. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The political backlash has started in the United States and cou...

Demonstrations are planned in several Swiss cities this Saturday to mark International Women's Day. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox While the routes of the processions in Geneva and Lausanne have been decided, unauthorised...

Citigroup bank has been fined CHF500,000 ($568,000) by Switzerland’s stock exchange regulator for failures after a London staffer’s fat-finger trade caused a flash crash in European stocks in 2022. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in...

Switzerland has lifted certain sanctions against Syria in light of the change of government in Damascus. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox In doing so, it is following the decision of the European Union, which has also eased...

Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter, says foreign policy has not changed in light of recent United States decisions. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "Volume is not a measure of the quality of foreign policy," said Keller-S...

The Swiss government has rejected a Centre Party initiative to abolish tax penalties for married couples. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Federal Council declined to offer a counter-proposal, referring instead to ongoi...

Strategically important steel companies in Switzerland are eligible for state aid from the start of this year until the end of 2028. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox On Friday, the Federal Council announced the retroactive ...

Many Swiss companies are failing to carry out their legal obligation to monitor equal pay, says the Federal Office of Justice. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox More than half of companies have not fulfilled their obligation...

The Swiss Federal Supreme Court has overturned the conviction of a commodities trader who had been given a suspended sentence and fined CHF72 million. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The judges noted that the proceedings c...

The Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers has acknowledged Swiss progress following a conviction for climate inaction by the European Court of Human Rights. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Council of Europe is awa...

Zurich airport saw improved revenues and record profitability, buoyed by higher passenger numbers last year. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox At group level, revenues came to almost CHF1.33 billion, compared with CHF1.24 bi...

Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche has announced the opening of an innovation centre, also for its United States subsidiary Genentech, on Harvard University's corporate research campus in the Boston neighborhood of Allston. +Get the most important news...

The world of development and multilateralism will never be the same following the 90-day suspension of US humanitarian aid, says the head of Switzerland's development agency. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The overnight A...