During a visit to Geneva, the United States ambassador to the United Nations in New York, has spoken of a need to "rexamine" the UN's presence in the "most expensive cities". + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Ambassador Mik...

A nine-year Italian prison sentence handed out to Swiss industrialist Stephan Schmidheiney, relating to asbestos deaths, has been quashed because the 2025 verdict was not translated into German. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your ...

The biggest acquisition in Swisscom's history is having an impact on the company's results. Profits at the Swiss telecoms firm plummeted due to the costs of integrating the acquired Vodafone Italia. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in y...

Thousands of masked and costumed people have thronged the streets of Lucerne for the launch of the Swiss city's carnival. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The so-called 'Dirty Thursday' was launched at 5am with traditional...

Switzerland’s Franjo von Allmen has won his third gold medal of his debut Olympics after topping the times in the men’s Super‑G. No Swiss athlete had ever won three golds at a single Winter Games before him. + Get the most important news from S...

After critical feedback during the consultation, the Swiss government has decided to revise one of the proposed measures in the package designed to safeguard wage protection as part of the Bilateral III negotiations between Switzerland and the Europe...

Swiss voters will head to the polls on Sunday June 14 to decide on two national issues. They will be asked to vote on the right-wing Swiss People’s Party initiative “No to ten million Switzerland” as well as on a reform of civilian service, whi...

The Swiss government says it wants to support the victims in Crans-Montana as quickly as possible. On Wednesday, it asked the justice ministry to draft the necessary legislation by the end of the month. + Get the most important news from Switzerland ...

Swiss companies are set to send power modules and high‑output generators to Ukraine over the coming weeks. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Swiss government has approved an aid package worth up to CHF32 million ($41....

The head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has warned of “chaos” if the global trading system were to fall apart. But keeping things as they are is not an option, WTO Director General Ngozi Okonjo‑Iweala said on Wednesday in Geneva. + Get t...

More flats were completed in the city of Zurich in 2025 than the year before, even though more buildings were torn down. The city itself delivered more new housing than the building cooperatives. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your...

Entrepreneur Alfred Schindler will step down as chairman of the Foundation Board of the Institute for Swiss Economic Policy (IWP) at the end of the year. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox According to a report in the Neue Z...

The Swiss army’s fleet of 248 M113 armoured personnel carriers has been banned from being driven after faults in their side‑drive system were detected. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A defect could cause the vehicles...

Avalanche danger in canton Valais, in southwestern Switzerland, has risen since Tuesday evening, with authorities now warning of a high risk. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox On Wednesday morning, the Swiss Federal Institu...

US President Donald Trump cited Switzerland as an example to defend his trade policy, arguing that countries such as Switzerland prosper because “we allow them to rip us off and make all this money,” he told Fox Business. + Get the most important...

The Swiss government is taking new technologies into account in the development of vocational training. It has approved the new profession of artificial intelligence specialist in response to the growing importance of AI in companies. +Get the most i...

Swiss banks continue to enjoy a solid level of trust among the Swiss population but criticism of the banking centre is growing. The perception of excessive profit-seeking and a lack of sustainability are tarnishing its image, according to a study by ...

A 79-year-old Frenchman has been charged with the alleged sexual assault of 89 minors in France and other countries. Some of the offences were committed in Switzerland, the Grenoble public prosecutor's office announced. +Get the most important news f...

A majority of Swiss people would be in favour of abolishing the five-centime coin - or five-Rappen, according to a survey. However, cash is still popular. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox More than half, namely 54% of the S...

The lack of fire safety checks in the bar Le Constellation, which was the site of a deadly fire on New Year's Eve, can be explained primarily by a change in the IT system according to statements by the Crans-Montana safety officer. +Get the most impo...

Swiss companies remain pessimistic about the euro. According to a study by UBS, the Swiss franc is expected to appreciate slightly against the euro in 2026. This comes as no surprise, as the euro-franc exchange rate has been falling for years. +Get t...

Zurich-based electrical engineering giant ABB sees the greatest opportunities for growth in the short to medium term in the United States, explains CEO Morten Wierod. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "That is where the grea...

The onslaught on melting glaciers is becoming a problem. According to researchers, tourism could threaten the fragile ice landscapes that it actually wants to make tangible. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox An international...

Stadler Rail has signed a contract with Turkish railway company TCDD Tamaclk for the delivery of 35 diesel-electric locomotives for freight services. They will be manufactured at the Thurgau-based group's plant in Valencia, Spain. +Get the most impor...

In a poll, the Swiss people have come out against an increase in value-added tax (VAT) in favour of the army or the 13th month of old-age pension (AHV/AVS). These are the findings of a poll conducted on behalf of the newspaper Blick. +Get the most im...

Switzerland has lost ground in the fight against corruption in the public sector. In the latest ranking by the organisation Transparency International, it has dropped one place to 6th place. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox...

Teenage pranks like egg‑throwing are no reason to deny a Swiss passport, an Aargau court has ruled, as it upheld an Eritrean woman’s appeal against a naturalisation refusal. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The young wo...

Swiss pair Franjo von Allmen and Tanguy Nef won gold in the Olympic Alpine skiing men's team combined on Monday. Mathilde Gremaud also retained her Olympic title in the slopestyle freestyle skiing competition. +Get the most important news from Switze...

Swiss authorities are investigating a possible link between infant formula contaminated with the toxin cereulide and symptoms of illnesses that have appeared in babies in recent days. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Fe...

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has opened the first of five international conferences marking Switzerland's chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2026. The two-day meeting on combating anti-Semitism ...