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The canton of Zug is to provide CHF55 million ($68.5 million) for the establishment of a joint leaing and research centre run by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich and representatives of Zug’s business community. The facility is intended to combine academic education with professional practice on the Tech Cluster Zug AG site in the Göbli area of Zug. According to a report to Parliament, students from ETH Zurich, researchers, lecturers and apprentices from Zug-based companies ...

Cadmium, a toxic and carcinogenic heavy metal found in soils, is present in our food. A study by the French-speaking Swiss Consumer Federation has detected cadmium in 67 out of 90 everyday products that were tested. None of the products contained cadmium levels that exceeded safety standards, but it raises the question of the cumulative effect of small doses ingested over several weeks. Cadmium occurs naturally in certain rocks and is used in agriculture through phosphate fertilisers, which incr...

The war in Iran took its toll on the Jungfrau Railways in the first half of 2026. As a result, significantly fewer travellers from Asia visited the Jungfraujoch. Tuover and profit fell sharply as a consequence. Operating revenue fell by 9% to CHF137 million ($170 million), the Beese Oberland mountain railway operator aounced on Friday. The bottom line was a profit of CHF29 million, 22% less than in the previous year, when the Jungfraubahn Group had posted a record profit. The weaker demand...

The BRICS group of countries are some of the biggest sellers and buyers of grain. They have launched a joint inquiry into potential monopolies in the global grain trade. On July 9, competition authorities from the BRICS group met at a closed meeting in Geneva at the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) headquarters. The objective of the meeting was to tackle the market dominance of the biggest players in the global grain trade: ADM, Bunge, COFCO, Cargill and LDC (known collectively as ABCD+). The i...

The European Union’s closest economic partners are waing Brussels that its increasingly protectionist industrial policies risk shutting them out of a single market they have spent decades integrating with. Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein have built close economic relationships with the bloc, accepting swaths of EU rules and contributing billions to European programmes in retu for varying degrees of access to its 450 million consumers. But as Brussels responds to competition fr...

The scorching summer has taken quite a toll on the Swiss. A large majority of those surveyed found the high temperatures difficult to cope with, and many are conceed about the environment. In total, 74% of the population described the summer of 2026 as “very trying” or “somewhat trying”, according to a survey by 20 Minutes and Tamedia published on Friday. Only a quarter of those surveyed found it very or somewhat pleasant. Women suffered significantly more from the heat than men: 46% of them s...

Swiss President Guy Parmelin has expressed his condolences to the Norwegian Royal Family and the people of the Scandinavian country following the death of King Harald V. Parmelin was “deeply saddened” by the King’s death, he wrote on X. Harald V, who died on Friday moing at the age of 89, “will be remembered for his steadfast leadership and devoted service to his country”, Parmelin wrote. The King’s health, which had been steadily deteriorating, had also moved Norwegians living in Switzerland....

A 17-year-old Briton on holiday with his family has drowned in Lake Cauma in Graubünden, easte Switzerland. The young man was trying to swim to the shore from a small island when he got into difficulty. The incident occurred at around 5:45pm on Thursday, according to a statement issued on Friday by the Graubünden police. Several people immediately rushed to help, swimming and using canoes, and brought him to the shore of the island from which he had set off. There, some paramedics who happened...

Switzerland is performing relatively well in Europe when it comes to the energy transition. It ranks fifth in terms of renewable electricity generation per capita, thanks in particular to rapid growth in solar power. Wind power, on the other hand, is struggling to keep pace. The energy transition is making progress in Switzerland, and at a fairly good pace by European standards. This is the conclusion of an analysis published on Friday by the Swiss Energy Foundation (SES), which compared Switzer...

A severe thunderstorm has “significantly” disrupted operations at Zurich Airport. By Friday lunchtime, 27 flights had been cancelled, and further cancellations are expected, according to Swiss Inteational Air Lines (SWISS). Around 3,100 passengers were affected. Delays of up to three hours are expected on further flights, according to the statement. Depending on how the weather develops, there could be further flight cancellations. According to the statement, the main reason for the disruption...

Roger Federer is back – on the teis court and in the spotlight. Following a special appearance in New York, he will be inducted into his sport’s Hall of Fame on Saturday in Newport, Rhode Island. The term Hall of Fame is not as common in Europe as it is in North America, and particularly in the US. Even those who know nothing about a particular sport realise that if someone is in the Hall of Fame, they are among the greatest in their field. It comes as no surprise that Roger Federer is to be i...

A former councillor for the municipality of Crans-Montana, who was responsible for building matters between 2017 and 2024, was also charged on Friday in coection with the fatal fire at the “Le Constellation” bar. The woman is now the 17th person to be charged in coection with the tragedy, in which 41 people died and 115 were injured on New Year’s Eve. The former municipal councillor was being interviewed on Friday in her capacity as a person required to provide information when her status ch...

Swiss historian Sacha Zala is the new president of the Inteational Council of Historical Sciences (CISH). The professor of history and director of the Dodis research centre was elected at the congress marking the 100th aiversary of the CISH. Zala, bo in Val Poschiavo in southeaste Switzerland in 1968, will succeed Catherine Horel of France, the CISH aounced on Friday. He has been a member of the world organisation’s executive board since 2017. In a statement the council said Zala had b...

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A sign shows the closed campus of Fullerton College in Fullerton, Califoia USA, 17 July 2020. Keystone / Eugene Garcia This content was published on July 24, 2020 - 11:00 July 24, 2020...

A bicycle courier brings food to people in lockdown during the Covid-19 outbreak in Lausae, Switzerland Keystone / Laurent Gillieron The so-called “gig economy” has taken off around the ...

Some 700,000 people die every year from antimicrobial resistance. © Keystone / Gaetan Bally More than 20 major pharmaceutical companies are investing nearly $1 billion (CHF940 million) in ...

Der 30-jährige Auslandschweizer Ben Tite ist glücklich in der Schweiz. zvg For second generation Swiss citizens who live abroad, Switzerland often feels like a distant dream. Some say it i...

Shooting in the street: Martin Suter revisits the neighbourhood of his childhood in Zurich for the documentary based on his life. Carlo Pisani Martin Suter is one of the most prolific Swis...

American Christine Worrell, a Swiss resident, has experienced discrimination in both countries she’s called home. She lays out the origins and manifestations of the problem in both places, arguing tha...