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Sun, 13 Mar 2022 17:05:00 GMT
Switzerland plans online registration for Ukrainian refugees
The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) is planning to set up online registration for Ukrainian refugees, after long queues at federal asylum centres at the weekend. “We are sorry that refugees have had to wait outside for hours," SEM head Chris...

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 16:11:00 GMT
Tribute paid to victims of Sierre coach accident
Officials and relatives have been attending a ceremony in Switzerland to mark the tenth anniversary of a fatal coach accident in which 28 people died, including 22 Belgian and Dutch children. A commemorative plaque to the accident, one of the worst ...

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 12:33:00 GMT
Epidemiologist: don’t lift Covid measures too quickly
Leading epidemiologist Marcel Salathé has urged the Swiss government to wait before lifting the remaining pandemic measures. The rapid rise in coronavirus cases is worrying, he said in a newspaper interview. “Corona is not over. And I fear that t...

Sun, 13 Mar 2022 10:53:00 GMT
Experts warn of hit to economy without Russian oil and gas
Renouncing Russian oil and gas would have serious consequences for the Swiss economy, an expert from the KOF Swiss Economic Institute has told a Sunday newspaper. If imports were to be cut off, for example in the wake of tougher sanctions against Ru...

Sat, 12 Mar 2022 13:39:00 GMT
Ukraine refugees: federal asylum centres overrun
Swiss federal asylum centres have reported extremely high numbers of refugees from Ukraine registering for protected S status, a day after the move was officially approved in Switzerland. State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) spokesman Daniel Bach t...

Sat, 12 Mar 2022 11:11:00 GMT
Parmelin raises concern over sanctions on commodities
Swiss Economics Minister Guy Parmelin has warned of the global consequences should sanctions be imposed on Russia for the commodities trade. “I am against taking measures that lead to fresh problems elsewhere and further aggravate the global crisi...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 16:47:00 GMT
Switzerland orders 14 million Covid-19 vaccines for 2023
Switzerland is buying at least 14 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine for 2023, in order to provide for its population of 8.7 million “under all pandemic scenarios”. Seven million of the jabs will be purchased from the Moderna company and seven mi...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:40:00 GMT
Swiss finalise decision on ‘S permit’ for Ukrainian refugees
Ukrainians fleeing the war will be eligible for a temporary S permit to live and immediately work in Switzerland. The permit, initially valid for a year, has never before been activated. In announcing the introduction of the S permit as of tomorrow ...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 14:06:00 GMT
Switzerland inches towards minimum company tax rate
Switzerland looks set to miss a deadline for implementing a minimum 15% rate of tax on large companies, but is planning stop-gap measures to meet agreed international standards. According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 12:53:00 GMT
Authorities advise Swiss citizens to leave Russia
The foreign ministry has advised Swiss citizens in Russia to leave the country, unless they have an urgent reason to stay. The attack on Ukraine and subsequent war has led to an “increasingly unpredictable” situation in Russia, the foreign minis...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 10:30:00 GMT
Switzerland approves CHF80 million in emergency aid for Ukraine
The Swiss government has boosted its humanitarian support to victims of the war in Ukraine. On Friday it approved CHF80 million ($86 million) as an “expression of its solidarity with Ukrainians in need”. “Around 12 million people are dependent...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:02:00 GMT
Up to 60,000 Ukrainians could seek refuge in Switzerland
Between 50,000-60,000 Ukrainians could seek protection in Switzerland following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the Swiss justice minister. Karin Keller-Sutter told Blick TV on Thursday that it was hard to give precise estimates on the ...

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:44:00 GMT
Peregrine falcon once again in peril in Switzerland
The world’s fastest animal, the peregrine falcon, has been put back on the red list of “vulnerable” species by the Swiss Ornithological Association. Having made a comeback since near extinction in the 1970s, the falcon has seen its numbers dro...

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:27:00 GMT
Swiss Post Office bounces back from pandemic difficulties
The Swiss Post Office more than doubled profits to CHF457 million ($493 million) last year as it was less affected by pandemic restrictions. The group’s financial arm, PostFinance, recorded a CHF272 million result, up from CHF162 million in 2020. ...

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:18:00 GMT
Universities to review Russian research cooperation
Swiss universities should re-examine their scientific collaborations with universities in Russia and suspend them if necessary, the sector’s umbrella body has said. “When political agreements and rules of diplomacy are unilaterally overridden, m...

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 11:16:00 GMT
Right-wingers fail again to block Swiss bid for UN Security Council seat
Opponents of Switzerland's bid for a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council have suffered a setback in parliament. The House of Representatives clearly rejected a call by the right-wing Swiss People’s Party for the government to...

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 10:09:00 GMT
Switzerland condemns Mariupol hospital bombing
Switzerland has condemned the bombing of a children's hospital in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol, calling it an "inconceivable act of inhumanity". Ukraine accused Russia of carrying out genocide, while the Kremlin said the bombing claim was fake “i...

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 08:16:00 GMT
Swiss Solidarity raises over CHF82 million for Ukraine war victims
The humanitarian charity Swiss Solidarity has raised over CHF82.6 million ($89.1 million) as part of a public fundraising effort for victims of the war in Ukraine. The Swiss public donated over CHF51.5 million on Wednesday and over CHF30 million on...

Wed, 9 Mar 2022 17:32:00 GMT
Swiss state-owned small arms producer sold to Italy
Switzerland’s state-owned Ruag International company has sold its small-caliber ammunition division to the Italian firearm manufacturer, Beretta. All the 2,700 employees of Ammotech in Switzerland and ten other countries, including Germany and Swe...

Wed, 9 Mar 2022 17:16:00 GMT
Covid cases still rising but Swiss government unfazed
The Swiss authorities have recorded a steep increase in new confirmed Covid infections but the situation in hospitals is under control. More than 33,750 tested positive for Covid-19 over the past 24 hours, the Federal Office of Public Health said on...

Wed, 9 Mar 2022 15:48:00 GMT
Church bells ring out to protest against war in Ukraine
Switzerland’s main churches have organised a protest against the war in Ukraine. The bells of the Roman Catholic, Protestant and Christian Catholic churches across the country rang out for a few minutes on Wednesday morning, inviting people for a ...

Wed, 9 Mar 2022 12:57:00 GMT
Swiss court clears critics of Turkish president
A district court in Switzerland has acquitted four defendants accused of inciting violence against the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The judge ruled that a controversial banner shown by protesters at a 2017 demonstration in the Swiss capit...

Wed, 9 Mar 2022 09:05:07 GMT
Major investor coalition presses Credit Suisse on climate risks
A group of 11 investors with more than CHF2.2 trillion ($2.4 trillion) in assets has filed a shareholder resolution calling on Credit Suisse to cut its lending to fossil fuel assets. Among the investors is Europe’s largest asset manager, Amundi, a...

Tue, 8 Mar 2022 18:28:00 GMT
Switzerland mobilises for International Women’s Day
A series of events and rallies are being held across Switzerland to demand an end to violence against women and for enhanced rights on International Women’s Day. More than 1,000 people demonstrated in the Swiss capital, Bern, on Tuesday. They dema...

Tue, 8 Mar 2022 17:42:00 GMT
Switzerland condemns Russian attacks on press
The Swiss foreign ministry has berated Russia for targeting the media during its invasion of Ukraine. Several reporters have complained of being attacked by Russian forces, including a Swiss journalist who was injured and robbed this week. Russia ha...

Tue, 8 Mar 2022 16:15:00 GMT
Politicians call for Mussolini’s Swiss academic award to be revoked
In January 1937, the University of Lausanne (UNIL) awarded Benito Mussolini an honorary doctorate. A group of Vaud politicians on Tuesday called for the academic title to be revoked. Mussolini was awarded the university honorary doctorate “for hav...

Tue, 8 Mar 2022 14:18:00 GMT
Swiss parliament paves way for genome editing
The Swiss parliament has decided to ease restrictions on genetic engineering in agriculture, while extending in principle a moratorium for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) until 2025. The Senate on Tuesday asked the government to propose detail...

Tue, 8 Mar 2022 10:00:00 GMT
Switzerland listed as ‘unfriendly’ country by Russia
Russia has drawn up a list of around 50 countries, including Switzerland, that have committed “unfriendly actions” against Russia, its companies and citizens, in the wake of severe economic sanctions over the war in Ukraine, the Russian state med...

Mon, 7 Mar 2022 15:39:46 GMT
Switzerland makes available 5,000 places for Ukrainian refugees
The government has allocated 5,000 places in Swiss federal asylum centres for people fleeing the war in Ukraine. The decision was announced by the State Secretary for Migration Christine Schraner Burgener at a press conference in Zurich on Monday. ...

Mon, 7 Mar 2022 13:45:36 GMT
Swiss journalist injured in attack in southern Ukraine
A Swiss freelance journalist has been injured and robbed in the Mykolaiv region of southern Ukraine. According to the online media outlet Ukrayinska Pravda, the journalist was in a car travelling towards the city of Mykolaiv, near the Black Sea, whe...



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