This content was published on August 22, 2017 5:00 PMAug 22, 2017 - 17:00The ten-day Badenfahrt festival happens just once every ten years – transforming the spa town of Baden into a party animal’s playground. The theme for 2017 is “opposites” and the festival features various purpose-built structur...

From field to the plate: Swiss voters on September 24 decide what role the gove ment should play in ensuring there is enough agriculture foodstuffs produced in Switzerland (Keystone) Voters will have the final say on an integral plan for ensuring Swiss food security on September 24. The content of t...

Tama Vakeesan was bo in Switzerland – to Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. This week, Tamaxa0visits the Kidswest Association set up a decade ago in Be , which introduces art to disadvantaged children and can even change their lives, as one former participant explains.xa0(SRF Kulturplatz/swissinfo.ch)

(Patrick Lo Giudice/Wikipedia) More than 200 years after her execution, the story of the “last witch in Europe” still fascinates. To this day, the case of Anna Göldi causes discomfort. He thinks long and hard before actually saying it. Walter Hauser knows that his words could sound sensational, or e...

Voting by keyboard (Keystone) A first-time experiment in allowing Swiss citizens to cast their votes online for the Council of the Swiss Abroad has proven to be popular in two countries. Voters were enthusiastic about the pilot project, which relies on an e-voting system from the canton of Geneva to...

Opposition against the pension reform appears to be stronger in the French- and Italian-speaking parts of the country than in the German-speaking regionxa0 (Keystone) Most Swiss citizens support reform of the old age pension system and the necessary increase in Value Added Tax (VAT), according to an...

Horse fans gathered in Schönbühl near Be for a special auction to find new homes for a number of mistreated horses. The star was stud horse Charlie, a rare Swiss breed. (SRF/swissinfo.ch) In early August, the police in northeaste Switzerland detained a horse dealer suspected of cruelty to animals, a...

Why do the Swiss abroad vote differently from the Swiss at home?xa0An expert takes a closer look at the political profile of the Swiss diaspora. Political expert Thomas Milic has researched the political profile of Swiss expats. He's an expert on voting, parliamentary research and political psycholo...

Swiss Photography Foundation, Winterthur Dominic Nahr “Africa doesn’t exist.” This sentence is posted next to images exhibited by Swiss photographer Dominic Nahr. It is a quotation from jou alist Georg Brunold’s reports from Africa – and relevant to Nahr’s work. His photographic oeuvre is now on sho...

The classic Swiss Unspunnen Festival retu s after a gap of 12 years (Keystone) Here's a selection of the stories we will be bringing you in the upcoming week. (Patrick Lo Giudice/Wikipedia) Monday It’s been more than 200 years since Europe’s “last witch”, Anna Göldi, was executed in Switzerland. She...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Five years ago, she left for Japan on a diplomatic inte ship and fell in love with her new home. Now, Jacqueline Tschumi has no desire to retu to Switzerland. But the 32-year-old does miss Swiss efficiency and quick access to the great outdoors. swissinfo.ch: Wh...

First-time congress attendee Monika Tiffany feels Swiss banks should make banking less of a hassle for Swiss citizens living abroad. She currently lives in Oregon. #WeAreSwissAbroad Dear Swiss living abroad… We’ve set up an Instagram account for you! Please share your pictures using the hashtag #WeA...

Berset's speech was applauded by the nearly 400 participants of the Swiss Abroad Congress. (Adrian Moser/ASO-OSE) Interior Minister Alain Berset has highlighted the experience and expertise of Swiss citizens living around the world and pointed out the truth behind Swiss clichés. “Switzerland doesn’t...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]swissinfo.ch brought along a mobile photo booth to the Swiss Abroad Congressxa0in Basel, allowing jou alists to capturexa0portraits of people with very different backgrounds. What connected them all: a great love for theirxa0homeland, and honest, diverse perspec...

This content was published on August 12, 2017 11:00 AMAug 12, 2017 - 11:00The 70th Loca o Film Festival is coming to a close. For ten days, the compact city in Italian-speaking Switzerland has been transformed into a place of pilgrimage for film-lovers, actors and directors. Here are some of the hi

This content was published on August 13, 2017 1:23 PMAug 13, 2017 - 13:23There is no special dress code at Zurich's Street Parade. This year some 900,000 ravers, party goers and curious spectators tu ed out for the annual techno music festival. Since the end of Berlin's Love Parade, Zurich's Street

Today, retired dental hygiene instructor Be ita Bush has more time for her career as a singer. (Be ita Bush) She has been making the Swiss smile for nearly 40 years, whether promoting oral hygiene or putting on a show. Be ita Bush tells her Swiss story, in the fourth of our series on US exp

You’re never far from an English word in Switzerland. What do the Swiss think of this “language creep”? Is there anything that can be done? Will there be “ein Backlash”? subscription form Form for signing up for free newsletter. Sign up for our free newsletter and get the top stories delivered to yo...

Mussie Zerai is often on the telephone helping migrants (Keystone) An Eritrean Catholic priest living in Switzerland says his efforts to save migrants’ lives show the need for nations to rescue more people trying to reach Europe through the Mediterranean. Nominated for the 2015 Nobel Peace Pri

Agnes Parodi was bo onexa0year before the First World War. Here, the 104-year-old holds a picture of her 22-year-old self. (Lars Gotsch/swissinfo.ch) Agnès Parodi has lived in many places, but hardly ever in Switzerland. Having reached the respectable age of 104, she lives in Cannes, France, a