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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...

Worldwide crises in short succession undermine Switzerland's political stability, says senior analyst Longchamp.    (swis...

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

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

This content was published on February 12, 2018 1:13 PMFeb 12, 2018 - 13:13 Balthazar Burkhard was in the right place at the right time: Be in the 1960s. The city had a lively bohemian scene, and was a magnet for radical artists and ideas that culminated in 1969 in the anthological exhibition, "When attitudes become form" atxa0the Kunsthalle Be. That's also thexa0moment in Burkhard’s five-decade careerxa0to which the Fotomuseum Winterthur is now dedicatingxa0a comprehensive...

Battle of the polygons - a rectangular Swiss flag flies in Austria during a state visit.(swissinfo.ch) When the Swiss athletes march into the Olympic stadium in PyeongChang, South Korea, for the opening ceremony of the 2018 Winter Games, they will wave a rectangular flag – proportions of 2:3 – in keeping with the other nations.This is one of the exceptions when the Swiss flag is not square. This was decreed by the Lausanne-based Inteational ...

The cross-border Portes du Soleil ski region is a bargain for skiers looking for variety. (© KEYSTONE / JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BOTT) Where in the Swiss Alps do you get access to the most ski slopes for your money? We crunched the numbers and found there’s a reason you’re asked to pay more at Adelboden than Airolo, or at Zermatt than Zuoz.xa0 Our graphic shows the inteational resort of Zermatt exteal linkrivalled in price by only a handful of other ski areas at CHF79 ($81) a day, while a pass at Z...

Keeping a bucket of water close by is a necessary ritual when using real candles to light a tree.(Keystone) A bright ChristmasOn December 24, 1999, the year that swissinfo.ch came into existence, we reported that nine out of ten Swiss households put up a Christmas treeexteal link, with most preferring real candles rather than electric bulbs.xa0In 2008 we wrote that candles not only illuminate trees in family homes but also in many churc...

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Local opponents of army training facilities at Rothenthurm staged protests and lit huge signal fires in the region(Keystone) The result of the nationwide vote on December 6, 1987 took both opponents and supporters by surprise.That day, 58% of voters supported the idea of moorland protection after several years of heated debate and bitter divisions among residents over 100 hectares of moorland and heath in the Biber Valley in central Swi...

"I can’t remember, but it'sxa0probablexa0I didn’t say anything very sensible!" Blocher on his press conference after the 1992 vote.(Balz Rigendinger) + Read the interview with pro-EEA leader Peter Bodenmann No to EEA, 25 years on A quarter-century of Switzerland’s special status in Europe Some 25 years before Britons voted to leave the European Union, Swiss people cast their ballot i...

At the end of 2016, almost 7,000 Swiss citizens were living in New Zealand. Around 1,000 of themxa0were over the age of 65.(Tim Graham/Getty Images) For many people who have spent their lives grinding away at a job in Switzerland, the idea of retiring at 65 and heading for an island where the cost of living is low and a Swiss pension goes far is highly appealing.But in some parts of the world, the reality is less than rosy.In New Zealan...

Supporters and opponents of the pension reform agree on the need for amendments but necessarily on how to securexa0the funding of Switzerland's main social security systemxa0(Keystone) Voters have thrown outxa0a wide-ranging overhaul of Switzerland’s old-age pension scheme. It is the third unsuccessful reform attempt in almost 20 years.About 53% of ...

Occupational pension funds for the first time exceeded CHF1 trillion(Keystone) Occupational pension plans, obligatory since 1985, have considerable economic and social significance in Switzerland. The savings, which are now managed by pension funds and insurance companies, far exceed gross domestic product (GDP) and the reserves of the Swiss N...

The last stretch of the campaign ahead of the vote could be decisivexa0 (Keystone) A controversial old-age pension reform has been losing ground ahead of a nationwide vote on September 24. An opinion poll shows the outcome remains wide open. Compared with a previous survey by the GfS Be research and polling institute in mid-August, support for the overhaul of the social security system, incl...

A picture for the history books:xa0UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (middle) shakes hands on September 10, 2002 with the then Swiss president Kaspar Villiger (left) and foreign minister Joseph Deiss. (Keystone) Until September 10, 2002, what did Switzerland have in common with the Vatican and East Timor? They were not members of the UN, and shared observer status at proceedings of the world bod...

On September 24, Swiss voters will decide on a reform of the country's old age and disability pension scheme - it is the 15th vote on the issue in nearly nine decades. So far only two reform proposals won a majority at the ballot box (Keystone) Swiss voters will have the final say later this month on a reform of the country’s old age pension scheme. It is an important, but only temporary dec...

Rudolf Strahm believes that the welfare state has come to the limits of its acceptance in Switzerland (Keystone) Rudolf Strahm is one of Switzerland’s most reputed economists. Here, he shares his opinion of Pension Reform 2020, which will come to vote on September 24. swissinfo.ch: The old-age pension system has been revised ten times since its introduction in 1948. The last revision was in...