The Geneva-based goods auditor SGS will not go ahead with a planned merger with French competitor Bureau Veritas. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Talks between the two parties did not lead to an agreement and have been co...

Swiss president Karin Keller-Sutter will represent Switzerland in Poland on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Two survivors...

Preventive regulation of the wolf population, rules for the import of dog puppies and higher minimum wages in the hospitality industry. On February 1, changes to laws and ordinances as well as other innovations come into force in Switzerland. Here is...

After a windy first day, the International Balloon Festival in Château-d'Oex, canton Vaud, took off on Sunday. Dozens of hot-air balloons took to the skies over the Vaud Alps. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The first fl...

The Swiss government's 2024 accounts, forecast to show a deficit of CH 2.6 billion ($2.8 billion), should be better than expected, announces Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter. But for the following years, the situation will not improve, she warns....

Switzerland is excluded by the US from the group of allied countries which have unlimited access to chips required for artificial intelligence (AI). + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The US recently changed the rules for th...

Eleonora Camizzi's documentary Bilder im Kopf (Images in mind) won the Prix Visioni at the Solothurn Film Festival on Saturday evening. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The prize, worth CHF20,000 ($22,076), is one of the f...

The Liberal Greens together with an alliance of representatives from economic, social and political circles are launching an initiative for an 18-week family leave. This was decided today by delegates meeting in Thun, canton Bern. + Get the most impo...

Some 2,200 people took to the streets in Geneva Saturday to show solidarity with the Palestinian people and to denounce Swiss policy in the Middle East. The demonstration had been called by the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement. + Get the most ...

The 13th edition of Art Genève takes place at Palexpo, Geneva, from Thursday to Sunday. A total of 81 international modern and contemporary art galleries will be exhibiting their works. Also on show are 22 institutional projects. + Get the most impo...

The first day of the International Balloon Festival in Château-d'Oex, canton Vaud, has been cancelled due to wind, organisers announced on Saturday. However, entertainment and captive flights will continue. + Get the most important news from Switzer...

A good team increases productivity. In Switzerland, 81% of employees perform better when they feel a sense of community with their colleagues. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This is the conclusion of a new survey by recr...

Three parties are holding their delegates' meetings this Saturday. The right-wing Swiss People's Party wants to rally its party base to fight against the treaty package negotiated with the EU. The Greens and the Liberal Green Party want to launch the...

The World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva is planning cost-cutting measures following the decision by the United States to withdraw its membership. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Hiring will be frozen in all but the ...

The number of rejected asylum seekers leaving Switzerland rose by 18.5% last year. The total was 7,205, compared with 6,077 in 2023, the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) reported on Friday. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your ...

Switzerland is calling on Iran to disband the morality police and the right to a fair trial in the Middle East country. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The demands were made by a representative of the Swiss mission to the...

After failing to recover the wreckage of a steamship, Swiss salvagers are now turning their attention to the remains of an aircraft that crashed into Lake Constance in 1957. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Ship Salvag...

Steelmaker Swiss Steel announced on Friday its intention to delist its shares from the SIX Swiss stock exchange. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Management is considering the possibility of trading its shares over the cou...

After a long legal battle with Credit Suisse, billionaire Bidzina Ivanichvili is now targeting Julius Bär, accusing the Swiss private bank of political blackmail. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The leader of Georgia's r...

Outgoing Swiss defence minister Viola Amherd says her succession is going to plan. "I don't see that the situation is chaotic", she said in an interview with Tamedia. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Amherd explained that ...

Switzerland’s finance minister is concerned that the economic slump in the European Union and Germany will also hit Swiss companies, as both are among the most important trading partners of the country. + Get the most important news from Switzerlan...

Researchers from Bern have recovered a freshly fallen meteorite in Oman. It is the second such find in which the Natural History Museum in Bern has been involved. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The meteorite also contain...

Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter told the media on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum that Switzerland is under pressure as the US and EU diverge on trade relations and various policy issues. + Get the most important news from Switzerland i...

The hospital information systems of several Swiss hospitals suffer from serious security flaws, according to a report from the National Testing Institute for Cybersecurity (NTC). + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Hospital i...

The Swiss had to pay more for leisure activities in December. Prices for vacation apartments, package tours and mountain cable cars in particular rose significantly. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to the Compar...

A new centre for monitoring epidemics was inaugurated in the Swiss capital of Bern on Thursday. The Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics (CPB) aims to improve the monitoring of epidemics in Switzerland by analysing genomic data. + Get the most importan...

A new mathematical model developed by Swiss researchers aims to improve the prediction of epidemics in the future. In the new model, the reproduction number, the R value used during the Covid pandemic, is replaced by a reproduction matrix. + Get the ...

Switzerland, as a member of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), signed a free trade agreement with Thailand on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Swiss ...

Swiss foreign minister Ignazio Cassis met the de facto foreign minister of Syria at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Wednesday. Following the meeting, Cassis said there was no immediate plan to ease sanctions against the transitional government. + G...

The federal audit office has identified major problems in the financing and planning of a major drone procurement project by the Swiss government. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Switzerland is currently procuring an unma...