Claude Wild, who was evacuated from Kyiv earlier this week, has also given more details about the diplomatic pull out. “I’m sad for the Ukrainians, for my colleagues and for the country,” Claude Wild said in an interview given to the Blick-TV ...

Various cases of mistreatment at a Geneva school for young people with autism were the result of systemic failures in how the institution was set up, an external audit has found. The school at Mancy just outside Geneva, which opened in 2018, has bee...

Before a meeting of European Union ministers in Brussels on Thursday, Swiss Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter repeated her plan to activate a special permit for Ukrainians fleeing their country due to war. The Swiss S permit, for “people in nee...

Russian bank Sberbank will function as normal in Switzerland despite other parts of the group pulling out of the rest of Europe. The Zurich-based subsidiary is not part of Sberbank Europe Group that has been hit with sanctions from the European Unio...

Young people in Switzerland are generally satisfied with their lives. However, their habits have changed over the past ten years: they smoke less, have moved to the left politically and are less homophobic and racist. On the other hand, they drink mo...

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) has posted an operating loss of CHF427.7 million ($465 million) for 2021. However, this is a third less than the CHF653.8 million lost in 2020. “The repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic substantially depr...

After the announcement yesterday of an official package of CHF8 million ($8.68 million), which includes relief supplies for the Ukrainian population, today some Swiss cantons, institutions and public announced further support. Cantons Bern and Zuric...

A leading Swiss-based publishing group, Ringier, has suspended its cooperation with Germany’s former chancellor, Gerhard Schröder. It said the measure was taken “by mutual agreement” and with immediate effect, according to a short statement p...

Swiss-based company Nord Stream 2, which is in charge of the gas pipeline project between Russia and Germany, has made employees redundant as a result of sanctions following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. More than 140 people have lost their jobs a...

Switzerland has evacuated its remaining diplomatic staff in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The foreign ministry said the move was necessary because of the deteriorating security situation. The ambassador and four other diplomatic staff had left Ukrai...

Parliament has given the green light to create a cyber command centre for the Swiss armed forces. As part of an overhaul of the country’s cyber defence, the centre will be upgraded and staffed with up to 575 members by 2026. This is more than twic...

Several thousand people in Switzerland have again protested against Russia’s attack on Ukraine, amid calls to take in refugees fleeing the conflict. An estimated 20,000 demonstrators in the city of Zurich, including the mayor, Corine Mauch, accuse...

Parliament has called on the government to set the legal basis for an official memorial site for Swiss victims of Germany’s Nazi regime. The Senate on Tuesday followed the House of Representatives to tacitly approve a demand for a Holocaust memori...

Swiss-based Red Cross agencies have appealed for CHF250 million ($273 million) to provide food, water and shelter to millions of people in Ukraine, where the humanitarian situation is "deteriorating rapidly", and to those who have fled abroad. The I...

Retail sales of organic foods in Switzerland rose 17% to CHF3.24 billion ($3.54 billion) in 2020, reaching a market share of around 11% as the Covid-19 pandemic boosted demand, according to a government report. Just over a third of people polled for...

Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) will not fly to Russia with immediate effect until the end of March. It said it had taken the decision owing to Russia’s war against Ukraine. Until now, SWISS flew five times a week from Zurich to Moscow and t...

Costs for the health sector, gas and digital payment transactions all ended up in the cross hairs of the Swiss price supervisor last year. The Covid-19 pandemic also left its mark. Price watchdog Stefan Meierhans said on Monday, in a statement accom...

It is “very probable” that neutral Switzerland will follow the European Union on Monday in sanctioning Russia and freezing Russian assets, according to Ignazio Cassis, who holds the rotating Swiss presidency this year. Cassis, interviewed on Sun...

Swiss Defence Minister Viola Amherd says neutral Switzerland must ensure its own security, since there’s no guarantee defence alliance NATO would help non-member Switzerland in the event of a Russian attack. “We could ask other countries for sup...

Between 10,000 and 20,000 people have demonstrated in Bern against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The motto of the rally was “Peace for Ukraine and all of Europe”. Saturday’s authorised demonstration was called by a broad alliance of movement...

While the crisis in Ukraine has not yet led to any migration to Switzerland, depending on the duration and intensity of the war, a few hundred or up to 2,000 people could seek refuge in Switzerland, according to current government estimates. In the ...

Swiss skier Fanny Smith will be awarded the women’s ski cross bronze medal after her disqualification in the controversial final at the recent Winter Olympics was overturned by an appeals commission. Smith, a bronze medallist at Pyeongchang in 201...

Switzerland has partially evacuated its embassy in Kyiv as Russian forces close in on the Ukrainian capital. This means that only six or seven staff remain at the embassy, the minimum for it to function, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis said on...

Switzerland has firmly shut the door on a single charter governing relations with the European Union but is instead prepared to renegotiate a host of existing treaties covering a wide variety of mutual interests. For years, the EU has been pushing S...

The owners of the Bührle art collection and the Zurich museum where it is exhibited have signed a new contract to address some of the issues around the controversial origin of the works. The 203 paintings on display since October 2021 at the Kunsth...

The number of Swiss residents taking a holiday in their own country surged last year to help the tourism industry partially recover from the catastrophic effects of the pandemic. The number of overnight stays at hotels by locals hit a record 21 mill...

Fredi M Murer, who directed what is often considered the best Swiss film of all time, will be awarded the Honorary Prize of the 2022 Swiss Film Awards. Murer, 81, is a “key figure in Swiss cinema, a filmmaker and craftsman from analogue times”, ...

The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland has demanded Credit Suisse be fined CHF5 million ($5.4 million) – the maximum provided for by law – for aggravated money laundering and subsidiary support of a criminal organisation. Switzerland�...

The Swiss foreign ministry has issued a statement strongly condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine as an “invasion”. It called on Russia to immediately cease its “military aggression” and withdraw its troops from Ukraine. “This is a gross...

Switzerland is to donate a maximum of 15 million shots of coronavirus vaccine in the first half of this year to the COVAX initiative for equitable vaccine distribution. With a total of 34 million vaccines available for 2022, the Swiss population of ...