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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...

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...

Gredig wants to defend the interest of future generations in parliament.(Thomas Ke/swissinfo.ch) Switz...

The case of Jean-Louis Jeanmaire shook Switzerland in the 1970s(Keystone / Str) As Switzerland reels fro...

Switzerland will only stump up cohesion contribution if it no longer feels discriminated against by the EU.(sda-ats) ...

Switzerland's seven cabinet members welcome the Indian president in September 2019. Foreign policy strategy aims to involve...

A motorway underpass means the gutting of this district in Zurich and the loss of more affordable apartments.(© Keystone / Gaetan Bally)...

An overwhelming majority of the nearly 100 delegates taking part in the session of the Swiss Abroad Council voted in favour of the two r...

Young people below the age of 18 get a chance to make decisions at the Kloten cantonal assembly.(swissinfo.ch) With mor...

For the mobile Swiss community, should official voting materials be issued in English, too?As part of our series of roundtable discussions in the run-up to the parliamentary elections in Octobere...

(Keystone/KPINL KPAPA) One of the world’s most secure email services has been caught up in a sophisticated cyber attack...

A 'drone marshal' in action during a race by Lake Zurich in October 2018(Keystone) Francesco Bortoluzzi of the swi...

Garik Israelian is an astrophysicist and a musician. Brian May is a musician and an astrophysicist. Together, the two friends created the Starmusexteal link Festival, five days during which spi...

Inebriated policemen discussing “dynamiters" and “anarchist bombers” over a few drinks in a cartoon.(zvg) These a...

Still a lot of heavy lifting to do in the field of cleanxa0energy (Keystone) The man who drove thexa0SOLARTAXI around the world ten years ago thinks that renewables aren’t gaining ground quickly eno...

Women are still very underrepresented in Swiss company boardrooms (Peter Klaunzer / KEYSTONE) Few women sit on company boards in Switzerland - and the rate is low compared to other European coun...

Heidi Main Heidi Amstalden Albertin in traditional Swiss dress Twenty-seven-year-old Heidi Amstalden Albertin lives in Helvetia, Brazil – a Swiss colony that her ancestors helped to found. ...

The author saved a month’s worth of plastic waste, pictured here. Less than half could be recycled.(swissinfo.ch) Switzerland consumes three times as much plastic as other European countries, but recycles 30% less. Bans on plastic in the EU and China may change that.xa0The Swiss appetite for plastic is cons...

Jürg Schär and Konrad Rüegg are both members of the Swissxa0Federation of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises xa0(swissinfo.ch) Switzerland’s Federation of Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) supports a proposal to do away with mandatory licence fees for public service broadcasters, which will come to a nationwide vote on March 4. Two of its members sat down to discuss the issue.xa0The SME umbrella organisationexteal link is up agains...

Undocumented or not? Schools make no difference(Keystone) A group of right-leaning politicians in Switzerland is calling for schools to inform the authorities if they have illegal immigrants amongxa0their pupils. The move is causing consteation, not only among teaching staff.The House of Representatives’ Social Security and Health Committeeexteal link submitted a motionexteal link at the end of January calling for “facilitating the exchange ...