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Swiss Attoey General Michael Lauber (centre) in a file photo Keystone / Peter Klaunzer Swiss Attoey General Michael Lauber - facing impeachment proceedings over his handling of a ...

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...

Producing for diverse audiences is part of the job at an inteational broadcaster(Keystone / Salvatore Di Nolfi) ...

The aual photo of the Swiss Federal Council for 2020, with federal chancellor Walter Thuherr on the far left(Swiss Fede...

The Mühleberg nuclear power plant  as seen on Friday, shortly before it was shut down(Keystone / Anthony Anex) ...

Women candidates from the Green Party celebrate their victories(Keystone / Eddy Risch) From massive shifts in party pow...

Representatives of the Social Democratic Party in parliament have voted more often than any other party in line with the position o...

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...

The chief animator of the hit film trilogy “How to train your Dragon” is Swiss. Simon Otto, who has lived in the United States for 21 years, comes from St Gallen in easte Switz...

China Is leading the world towardsan electric car future (Robyn Beck / AFP) Switzerland has a new strategy to promote greater use of electric vehicles, but the Alpine nation remains far behind ...

(Keystone) On April 16, 1943, Albert Hofma suddenly saw “an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colours”. Hofma, then a scientist at Basel-based pharmaceutical company Sandoz, had accidentally experienced the first LSD trip after touchin...

Orphans eatlunchin Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo.More than four million children have lost at least one parent in Congo over the past two decades(Keystone) The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has boycotted a United Nations conference in Geneva that reaped hundreds of millions of dollars to help...

Two-thirds of the govement’s tax revenue is at stake in the vote(Keystone) Projections show 83% of voters have renewed the govement’s right to tax its citizens and companies for another 15 years. This is a unique feature of Switzerland’s political system of direct democracy and federalism. ...

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 amongtheir 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 of information between state bodies for people whose residency status is not settled (for example, for education…)”.Committee member Raymond Clottu told public service radio RTSexteal link on Monday that...

Jean-Claude Biver believes infacing the enemy head-on(Keystone) In a boardroom on a boat moored off Geneva’s Quai du Mont-Blanc, Jean-Claude Biver is explaining his first success in business, furiously thumping the table to punctuate his words.In the early 1980s, the luxury Swiss watch industry faced a near-existential crisis: Japanese manufacturers had threatened to render mechanical watches obsolete by introducing cheap, more accurate quartz models, and sales told accordingly.Swatch’s founder, Nicolas Hayek, played the Japanese at their own game, launching Swiss-made $50 plastic quartz watches in every colour. But Biver played the cont...

US President Donald Trump has arrived in snowy Davos as this year's most-anticipated WEF attendee. What do the townspeople think of it all?A ski lift operator would gladly help the American leader on to the slopes, but doubts he'll venture that far from the WEF conference centre. Others are happy about the publicity Trump's visit brings for their coer of the world. And some take issue with the way he interacts with those around him.Thousands of security forces are spread out across town and vehicles are parked every which way. Helicopters buzz overhead and joualists rush after interviewees.Storefronts have been rented out to think tanks, companies and nonprofits, and lavish soirees book out ...

eva 1 Eva Witschi vor Graffitti Before eventually retuing to Switzerland, where she would like to bring up her children, 25-year-old Eva Witschi wants to “have adventures in the big wide world for a while.” Since 2016, she has been living in Britain with her 26-year-old partner. She sees no risks to her career in advertising there, despite Brexit. swissinfo.ch: Why did you leave Switzerland? Eva Witschi: I left Switzerland in July 2016 with my long-term partner. We had both dreamed of living abroad for a long time. We wanted to go to an English-speaking country and Britain is the nearest. We lived in Birmingham for a year and then moved to London in September 2017. I wouldn’t rule...

«Funky Claude» Nobs and Jean-Paul Marquis help fight the fire at Montreux Casino.Blame it on Zappa. Montreux 1971. (©Alain Bettex) Celebrating the 50th aiversary of the Montreux Jazz Festival, the National Museum of Zurich has opened a memorabilia exhibition mainly focused on its founder, the legendary Claude Nobs (1936-2013). With a carefully selected set of objects, videos and sounds, "Montreux. Jazz Since 1967" gives form to one of the richest immaterial treasures of humanity. Before organisinghis first humble festival in 1967, Nobs had begun meeting established and promising performers while working as an accountant in the tourism office of Montreux, then a sleepy holiday destinati...

Could the model of presumed consent put an end to the lack of organ donations in Switzerland? Following thelaunch of a popular initiative, opinionsare deeply divided. (Keystone) Every adult who dies should automatically become an organ donor:that’s the idea behind a Swiss people’s initiative. However, two doctors who have increased the number of donations in canton Ticino describe the scheme as a dangerous shortcut. “But where’s his soul now?” “We agree in principle with donating the organs of our loved one, but that would tu him into a giraffe in his next life; therefore we can’t give our consent.” Those are two of the various comments that Sebastiano Martinoli and Roberto Malacrida, ...

Many Swiss citizens prefer to sit and watch. Why isn't tuout in regular votes and elections not higher? ( Salvatore Vinci / 13 Photo) Switzerland is often regarded inteationally as a model of functioning democracy. But a closer look shows that Swiss democracy is far from perfect. The “rule of all” tus out to be the “rule of some”. It is September 24, 2017, a “voting Sunday” as we say here in Switzerland. Voters have the final say on a crucial reform of the old age pensionsystem. This is a topic that will conceeveryone, sooner or later. Over the course of the day it becomes apparent that the proposed reform isn’t getting a majority of votes and is going down to defeat. But the real letd...