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Britain and the EU: hardly leaving at greyhound pace.(Associated Press) Three years after voting to leav...

The biggest winner of the elections was the Green party, which won 17 additional seats in the House of Representatives.(Keystone / ...

What do foreignxa0banks in the City of London need to consider? (EPA FILE) The UK’s financial regulator has urged a group of inteational banks in the City of London to limit the number of client...

Might there be another way for banks like UBS to deal with the next financial crisis?(Keystone) A new technology -xa0blockchain -xa0could prove more effective at containing a financial crash than regulations or safeguards built into the current system.In 2008, a financial crisis began to unfold that saw banks crumble, credit freeze up and economies go into free fall – and another financial crisis is inevitable, even if it’s impossible to pre...

Swiss in the UK express conce over the split with Europe.xa0 (swissinfo.ch) Relations between Switzerland and the United Kingdom are close, but the prospect of Brexit has cast a dark cloud over Swiss citizens living in the UK, who are uncertain about what the future may hold.xa0 We talked to three delegates from the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA),xa0to find outxa0how their lives might change when the UK is no longer an EU member. Nathalie Chuard is brand manager at Mondelez in Uxbr...

The River Uerke in its narrow bed(Stephanie Hess) A thin red line marks the extent of the damage. Painted on the rough exterior wall of the small village shop, it shows how high the waters of the nearby River Uerke rose in the summer of 2017: 1.87 metres over the normal level.xa0In July, the river rose so high that the village suffered the biggest flood in its history.xa0SilenceIn the village shop, a machine to dry out the freshly poure...

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In 2016, the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere reached a record level of 403 parts per million(Keystone/Gaetan Bally) “Now it’s time to take things seriously,” confirmed Jürg Staudenman...

Swiss firms are waiting to see which Britain Theresa May leads out from the shadows of negotiations(Keystone) While Switzerland is not involved in Britain’s divorce from the European Union, many ...

This content was published on October 9, 2017 11:00 AMOct 9, 2017 - 11:00 An exhibition of never-before-seen images of Eesto Che Guevara has visited some dozen Swiss towns, as part of a celebration organised by the Swiss-Cuba Association to mark a half-century since the revolutionary’s death.The “¡Che vive!” (“Che lives!”) exhibition features photos dating from the period f...

The three-tonne marble sarcophagus that dates from the second century ADxa0is carved withxa0detailed images of the 12 Labours of Herculesxa0 (Ministère public genevois) Seven years after it was discovered in a Geneva free port, a rare Roman Empire-era sarcophagus carved with the 12 Labours of Hercules is retuing to Turkey this week. The long-running legal saga symbolises the huge challenges surr...

Bangkok has expanded rapidly in the time since Lukas Habersaat has been there. (Keystone) Lukas Habersaat, a long-term resident in Thailand, has received official recognition for developing a pioneering business model in Bangkok’s entertainment district. He has lived with his partner in Bangko...

People in bilingualxa0Fribourg can choose to get their news from a French or German newspaper published in the city. (© KEYSTONE / GAETAN BALLY) How good is your German, French or Italian? Immigrants in Switzerland have differing experiences trying to master one of the national languages. Lingui...

We follow a refugee from Zimbabwe getting his first taste of Swiss university life through a new "discovery semester" offering.xa0 'Discovery semester' Refugees get a taste of Swiss university life Swiss universities have found ways for refugees to attend on a trial basis, but eaing a diploma ...

The federal govement sent 10 staff to monitor the counting (swissinfo.ch) In anxa0historic vote that putxa0an end to one of the oldest political conflicts in Switzerland, the weste French-speaking town of Moutier narrowly voted "yes" on Sunday to leave the canton of Be, Switzerland's largest...

Will Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May stay or go? And what about Brexit?xa0There are lots of questions after the shock UK vote (Keystone) Prime Minister Theresa May’s decision to hold a snap election to strengthen her hand in Brexit talks has been disastrous, leaving the country in uncharter...

A quarter of women who give birth in Switzerland are over 35, and 6% are over 40.(Keystone)The average agexa0of women givingxa0birth in Switzerlandxa0now hovers around 32. The number of over 35s having children is also growing.xa0As Mother’s Day is celebrate...

Mar 11, 2017 - 11:00Six years after the Fukushima disaster on March 11, 2011, 70% of the evacuated and forbidden areas have been freed up by Japanese authorities and the policy of retuing the population to those areas continues. Two Genevans, Matthieu Berthod and Jean-Patrick Di Silvest...

Julius Baerxa0believes Brexit will dent Britain's economic growth(Keystone)Julius Baer, Switzerland’s biggest standalone private bank, sees Brexit as an opportunity to acquire a rival in the UK, according to chief executive Boris Collardi.The bank, with a market value of CHF11.3 billion ($11.2 billion) and assets under management of CHF336 million, already has more than 200 staff in the UK. It was planning to build a European hub there before the UK voted last year to quit the EU.“If a UK bank b...

The City of London's financial sector is planning how to re-position itself with the EU (Keystone) The City of London has given up hope of universal access to the EU single market and is now seeking a bespoke deal for its different sectors to trade with Europe, with similar but stronger ties than Switzerland. Teams across the City and Whitehall have been working over the summer to draw up a plan for Britain's exit from the EU. Officials and representatives from the financial sector are getti...