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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 ...

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...

Swiss voters will decide on September 27 on a popular initiative on neutrality, which was launched to denounce Switzerland’s economic sanctions against Russia. But what is the true scope of these sanctions? And is Switzerland implementing them effectively? What sanctions is Switzerland imposing on Russia? Due to Russia’s veto in the UN Security Council, there is currently no comprehensive UN sanctions regime against Moscow. Following the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Switzerland’s ma...

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...

Price rises by streaming platforms such as Netflix need to be better regulated, according to the Swiss govement, which on Thursday accepted, without comment, a motion to this effect. The motion, tabled by parliamentarian Alex Farinelli, aims to provide better protection for consumers. In recent years, several providers of subscription-based digital services have repeatedly increased their prices, relying on terms and conditions that give them considerable scope to act unilaterally, Farinelli s...

A corruption case involving senior figures in the Swiss financial sector is to be heard in court: Pierre Mirabaud, former president of the Swiss Bankers Association (SBA), is due to stand trial at the begiing of September before the Federal Criminal Court. He is accused of bribing a senior Kuwaiti official in order to secure control of substantial public funds. According to the indictment, a copy of which was obtained by the Swiss News Agency Keystone-ATS, the criminal investigation was launch...

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 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...

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...

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...

Border guards unlock a crossing between Switzerland and France Keystone / Martial Trezzini On June 15 Switzerland re-opened its borders with many other European states after improvements t...

All of a sudden, everyone is talking about it: the 2019 Nobel Prize won by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz has reminded the Swiss that the country’s astrophysicists are at the forefront of the hunt for...

In this episode of Inside Geneva,exteal link we go behind the scenes at the world's most important gathering on human rights, now underway in Geneva.It's the UN Human Rights Council, where...

Switzerland is one of the ten countries most affected by the coronavirus worldwide, with more than 200 current cases and one confirmed death. Here is an overview of the situation and official res...