Mike Müller in the role of mayor at a town hall meeting(André Albrecht) A few times a year, the locals of some small and medium-sized Swiss communities get together to discuss the community’s budget, the annual accounts, tax rates, a new school building or anything else that’s going on. The discussi...

... Print Reuse article xa0See in another language: 1 See in another language: 1 xa0Languages: 1 Gay men and women will be able to adopt their partner's biological child(123RF) Until now, only married people have been able to adopt their spouses’ children. In Switzerland, homosexuals have been able ...

This drug store shop window in Zurich needs no sign to explain what it sells.(© KEYSTONE / CHRISTIAN BEUTLER) Let’s start with some examplesexte al link: if you needed a 30-day supply of a drug called Xarelto to prevent or treat blood clots, you’d shell out about CHF100 ($102) in Switzerland. In the...

... Print comment Reuse article xa0See in other languages: 9 See in other languages: 9 xa0Languages: 9 Used tickets at Geneva's cantonal employment office in March(Keystone) Exte al Content Formatting classes In 2018, swissinfo.ch will introduce a “Number of the Week” column to inform, surprise and ...

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A Swiss Post apprentice serves a customer(Keystone) A cave ous brick workshop behind the main train station in Zurich is one place where, at 8am on a dark winter’s mo ing, it is possible to find teenagers beaming with enthusiasm and professional pride.At work benches under fluorescent lights, 13 app...

Irina Tuor, right, was part of the Swiss delegation to the WorldSkills vocational training competition, where Switzerland took the top spot in Europe back in October(Michael Zanghellini (WorldSkills)) “Some people from other countries trained for two years just for this competition,” says Irina Tuor...

... Print comment Embed code Speaking at an integration conference earlier this year, Swiss Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga laid out the advantages of better integrating refugees in the job market.xa0“If you have a job, you don’t need welfare,” she said.xa0The justice and finance ministries, al...

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 treeexte al link, with most preferr...

... Print comment xa0See in other languages: 8 See in other languages: 8 xa0Languages: 8 At Christmas time especially,xa0the people of Serbia love to dance in large groups.xa0The "kolo" is a typical Serbian folk dance, in which participants link arms and move in a circle. The "lesa" is also popular:...

... Print comment Reuse article (PatitucciPhoto) We spent the summer of 2017 primarily doing one thing;xa0running trails in the Swiss Alps. We’d taken on a trail running book project, a guide to the best trail runs of the Swiss Alps due out in spring 2018.One of the highlights of the project was dis...

Skiplink Navigation Main Features ... Print comment Reuse article Keeping a bucket of water close by is a necessary ritual when using real candles to light a tree.(Keystone) MondayAs Christiansxa0celebratexa0yuletide, we dig up stories of holidays past from our archives and uncover traditions like t...

... Print comment xa0See in other languages: 8 See in other languages: 8 xa0Languages: 8 Christmas lights in Zurich, 1958. (Jules Vogt/Photopress-Archiv) Christmas tree in the control room of a nuclear power plant near Zurich,xa01970. (Jules Vogt/ETH-Bibliothek) A Christmas celebration at a petrol s...

Gevers both founded the Tezos Foundation and currently sits as President of the entity(Reuters) This irritation is playing out alongside the ongoing feudexte al link between Tezos founders, Arthur and Kathleen Breitman, and the foundation’s president Johann Gevers. On December 4, a group calling the...

... Print comment xa0See in other languages: 6 See in other languages: 6 xa0Languages: 6 Embed code Mode postmen have more to fear from aggressive dogs than sporting injuries. But last century, postmen in mountain areas ofxa0Switzerland risked breaking their necks to get the Christmas packages to th...

Three blue barracks - known as "Conference Row" - connect North Korea (visible across the street) and the South. It's here that the armistice agreement between the countries was signed in 1953, though the conflict between them technically still persists(swissinfo.ch) For more than six decades, Swiss...

... Print comment Reuse article xa0See in another language: 1 See in another language: 1 xa0Languages: 1 About 18 months ago we created the Instagram account to provide a platform for the Swiss Abroad. Since then we have posted a selection of photos almost daily. Thanks to these snaps, we have alrea...

... Print comment Reuse article xa0See in other languages: 3 See in other languages: 3 xa0Languages: 3 Keeping animals in small cages for fur production is banned in Switzerland.(Sylvain Cordier/Biosphoto/AFP) In Switzerland, if something fails in parliament, all is not lost because there is still d...

Mode hi-tech factories like this Rolex one in Bienne are far from the image of the small watch craftsman(Keystone) Hervé Munz interviewed more than 150 watchmakers across the industry’s heartland in the Jura region of weste Switzerland for his book, “La transmission en jeu. Apprendre, pratiquer et p...

Protesters against the overtu ing of net neutrality laws carry a sign to the Federal Communications Commission headquarters in Washington, DC earlier this month(Keystone) The decision “creates a world in which ‘you must be at least this tall to play’,” says Brian Trammell of the United States Federa...