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 se...

ChemChina is investing heavily abroad, including in Switzerland.(Keystone) In March 2015, the Beijing SOE paid €7.3bn for Pirelli, the Italian tyre company. Less than a year later it agreed to purchase Syngenta, the Swiss agribusiness group, for $44bn. So far, so standard. At a time of relative euro...

xa0See in other languages: 3 See in other languages: 3 xa0Languages: 3 Embed code Hallyday’s career spanned 57 years. He sold more than 110 million albums, among them "I love you”, "Light the fire”, "The Penitentiary" and “Mary”. Some say hexa0was the biggest rock star that France hadxa0ever seen.xa...

A 1992 demonstration in Schwyz against EEA membership.(Keystone) On December 6, 1992, Swiss citizens rejected by a small majority a plan for their country to become a member of the European Economic Area (EEA), a move which would have granted near-full access to the European single market.The decisi...

Peter Bodenmann, former president of the Swiss Social Democrat Party.(Thomas Egli/Lunax) 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 in a similar vote with far-reachi...

"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 ye...

... Print comment Reuse article A lante -bearer admires the handiwork of his colleagues at the Klausjagen.(swissinfo.ch) Loosely translated as “chasing Santa”, Klausjagenexte al link is a procession featuring hundreds of men and boys cracking whips, blowing ho

Warmer temperaturesxa0can mean less snow damage and heating costs...but they also go hand-in-hand with risks, including heat waves and droughts.(Keystone) The results of the report, presented at a conference in Be by the study’s authors from the Federal Office for the Environmentexte al link, are ba...

Madeleine Weiss carriesxa0a traditional Indonesian tray used for drying herbs and chilies and sifting rice(zVg) Madeleine Weiss: On 30 June 2015, my husband and I took our two small children, who were aged three years and 22 months old, as well as four suitcases and boarded a plane to Indonesia. We ...

An Afghani boy lea s to walk again thanks to his prosthesis.( Handicap Inte ational ) On December 3, 1997, over 120 countries gathered in Ottawa, Canada, to sign one of the most far reaching arms control conventions the world has ever seen: the ban on anti personnel landmines.xa0The exhibition, whic...

... Print Reuse article xa0See in another language: 1 See in another language: 1 xa0Languages: 1 (EPA/ORESTIS PANAGIOTOU) Lawyers acting for the banks have submitted information over

Around 2.2% of Bosnia and Herzegovina is still covered withxa0mines(zVg) xa0The barking of dogs produces such noise that it’s impossible to hear your own voice. We are at the Global Training Centre for Mine Detection Dogs in Blagovac, in rural Bosnia, about 10 kilometres north of the capital Sarajev...

... Print comment Reuse article Capturing Dent Blanche at sunrisexa0in late August 2017(PatitucciPhoto) While crossing the Glacier du Mont Miné, we stopped to watch the first light on the Dent Blanche. While I was trying to figure out my own photo, I saw Pascal Eg

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 o...

Madonna by Edvard Munch: The Norwegian expressionist painter made several versions of the composition. One of them was bought by the Basel Kunstmuseum in 1933 for a cheap pricexa0(SRF) A lithograph of a nude in black, red and blue by Edvard Munch with the title “Madonna,” a watercolour showing two l...

... Print Reuse article Swiss People's Party politician Christoph Blocher, speaking in Be in 1998(Keystone) But what were the for and against arguments in the final weeks of the campaign, which ended in a “no” vote on December 6, 1992?In this report from th

Experts say a hydrogen bomb (pictured)xa0can be up to 1,000 times more powerful than an atomic bomb.(Keystone/US Department Of Energy) “Considering recent threats such as North Korea, are there any proposed changes to bomb shelter laws?"xa0This was a question sent in to us by Alex, one of our reader...

... Print Reuse article xa0See in other languages: 8 See in other languages: 8 xa0Languages: 8 The CHF1,000 bill currently in use features the portrait of the Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt on one si

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Help is availablexa0for those whoxa0cannot afford health insurance, yetxa0not everyone who needs it actually receives it.(Keystone) In Switzerland, people with modest means may struggle to pay for basic health coverage for two simple reasons: insurance premiums are not adjusted to income, and they h...