Gianni Infantino has faced a difficult first three months in office (swissinfo.ch) Following the banning of Sepp Blatter, and new accusations levelled at his successor, Gianni Infantino, do you think it’s possible for FIFA to change its spots? We outline the events of the last few days below. Based ...

Il y a 49 navire qui battent pavillon suisse, comme ici le Moléson. (swiss-ships.ch) World shipping is going through one of the worst crises in its history. Ship-owners flying the flag of Switzerland are also hit. As the Swiss commercial fleet celebrates three-quarters of a century, dark clouds gath...

The cartoon of the week is a new series at swissinfo.ch. Cartoonist Marina Lutz has worked with different Swiss media as a caricaturist, including the Nebelspalter satirical magazine. Lutz has won several awards for her work, notably during the Fumetto inte ational cartoon festival.xa0Click through ...

Private banks, including Pictet and Lombard Odier, do not want to see the law changed Should Swiss taxpayers foot part of the bill for the criminal misbehaviour of companies? Private bankers believe that billions of francs in fines imposed by other countries for tax evasion offences should be tax de...

France's President François Hollande, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel and Switzerland's President Johann Schneider-Ammann after travelling through the Gotthard Rail Tunnel The mo ing after the official opening of the Gotthard tunnel through the Alps, the world’s longest rail tunnel, newspapers in...

Long experience as a politician and parliamentarian: For 20 years Gross represented Switzerland in the Council of Europe, promoting democracy and human rights. He also sat in the Swiss parliament until the end of last yearxa0 (Keystone) Andreas Gross is a renowned expert on direct democracy and one ...

Martin Senn, CEO Zurich Insurance Group, in 2014 (Keystone) The latest suicide of a top executive in Switzerland has focused attention on the affluent Alpine country and the stresses placed on senior managers, their ability to cope with a sudden job loss, and whether Swiss society creates particular...

As a biographer and aficionado of John Maynard Keynes, I am sometimes asked: “What would Keynes think about negative interest rates?” By Robert Skidelsky It’s a good question, one that recalls a passage in Keynes’s General Theory in which he notes that if the gove ment can’t think of anything more s...

The Gotthard, at 57 kilometres in length, is the world's longest and deepest rail tunnel (Keystone) The Gotthard rail tunnel through the Alps, 24 years in the making, has opened to great fanfare from across Europe as it further connects the continent. Two separate celebrations are being held at each...

Depending on how you look at it, the Gotthard links, or divides, northe and southe Switzerland and Europe. (Keystone) After 17 years of construction, the 57km (35.5 mile) Gotthard Base Tunnel will be officially opened on June 1. But the world’s longest rail tunnel is much more than just a hole in a ...

Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipilä has been promoting a proposal for the introduction of a basic income next year but only under certain conditions Swiss voters are due to decide on a people’s initiative to introduce an unconditional basic income on June 5. Finland has already decided. Two countries...

Reto Thüring: “Art is a tool for transformation” (©Cleveland Museum of Art) What’s an up-and-coming contemporary art curator from Switzerland doing in the American Midwest Rust Belt? The answer lies in a city experiencing a rebirth. Reto Thüring had to find Cleveland on a map when he was called for ...

May 30, 2016 - 16:30The vast makeshift Greek refugee camp Idomeni, which was cleared in just three days last week, has become a stark symbol of the European refugee crisis. But amid the despair, there was also solidarity with the refugees from a growing number of ordinary citizens.Thousands of mostl...

Farmers tend to their crops of Stevia in Caacupe city, Paraguay The Paraguayan plant, now also grown in China, Japan and other countries, is sweeter than sugar, yet free of calories. Due to a boom in demand spawned by the food industry, businesses such as the Swiss firm Evolva are now tu ing to synt...

The Rigi's many panoramas attract hundreds of thousands of tourists each year, as well as skiers during the winter months when it's covered in snow (swissinfo.ch) A group of asylum seekers has been temporarily housed on one of Switzerland’s most iconic mountains, the Rigi. The authorities say it’s a...

Rumours spread fast on social media, and finding out what's true or false can be difficult. At swissinfo.ch we've been testing out an automated way to do exactly this, as part of a project called Pheme. We also find out how our data jou alist, Duc-Quang Nguyen, finds data sources in Switzerland, and...

The opening of the Gotthard rail tunnel in 1882. This picture shows the first Gotthard steam locomotive at Göschenen station on its retu from Milan (Keystone) Peter von Matt knows more about the Saint-Gotthard Massif than any other Swiss person. The author spoke to the Nordwestschweiz newspaper abou...

May 28, 2016 - 11:00Every four years politicians and parties compete for the attention of the Swiss public in parliamentary elections. To cast their vote, citizens must use a standard ballot paper. But where do these come from and how are they produced?xa0In canton Be , around 800,000 ballot papers ...

BSI has felt the full force of regulators in both Switzerland and Singapore (Keystone) Despite a focused inte ational crackdown lasting several years, the BSI bank scandal shows that the dirty stains of money laundering refuse to come out in the wash. BSI is accused in both Switzerland and Singapore...

Serving up food and a message that bilateral EU accords are important (swissinfo.ch) Hamburgers, street art and the free movement of people accord with the European Union make an unusual mix. But the Swiss Business Federation (economiesuisse) is certain it’s a winning recipe. Their food truck tour p...