The Federal Audit Office has reviewed what the financial aid during the Covid pandemic has brought to the Swiss industry. It is satisfied with how the money was spent. Self-employed people received more than CHF2.5 billion ($2.5 billion) from the au...

The Swiss Film Archive in Lausanne is paying tribute to the Italian film director and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini on the centenary of his birth with the screening of five films next month. Pasolini, who was born on March 5, 1922, and murdered in myst...

Ticket prices for Swiss public transport will remain stable for 2023 for the seventh consecutive year. Only “a few tourist businesses” are planning to adjust their fares for next year, says the SwissPass Alliance. In addition, from December 11, ...

The inhabitants of Vernier, a municipality in Geneva, are set to have their say on banning advertising billboards. A referendum launched against a new law banning this form of communication has collected 2,300 signatures, the co-chairman of the refe...

More than a third (38%) of Swiss don’t follow the news. Young adults in particular are no longer interested in current affairs, according to an annual survey of the Swiss media landscape. This is a problem for democracy, as people who don’t foll...

More than a third of the extra-parliamentary activities of Swiss federal parliamentarians are paid for by companies or associations. Centre-right and right-wing politicians have significantly more paid mandates than their colleagues on the left, acc...

Credit Suisse Group and the French financial prosecution office have agreed to settle a tax fraud and money laundering case in France with a €238 million (CH234 million) payment to the state, a French court heard on Monday. The settlement still ne...

The pilots of Swiss International Air Lines have decided to drop plans for a strike to press for better working conditions. The pilots' association Aeropers and airline management reached an agreement at the latest round of negotiations over the wee...

The Art Basel art fair looks back on a successful first edition in the French capital, Paris. Around 40,000 people visited the fair at the Grand Palais Ephémère on the four public days and the preview day. The fair's management also reported "stro...

Switzerland should initiate the abolition of the major powers’ right of veto during its two-year seat on the United Nations Security Council, suggests former State Secretary Michael Ambühl. From January 1, Switzerland will be one of ten non-perma...

Leading Swiss brands have withdrawn from Russia because of the war in Ukraine. However, research by a Swiss newspaper shows that while a company can leave a country, its products often remain on shelves. “It’s a mass exodus. Since Russia invaded...

With exactly one year to go before the federal elections, the Swiss People’s Party, the Radical-Liberal Party, the Liberal Green Party and the Green Party have set out their stalls and their ambitions. The Liberal Greens and the Greens are each cl...

Retiring Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer has tried to explain a controversial comment on gender-neutral people – in which he said he doesn’t want to be replaced by an “it” – by saying it was a deliberate provocation. Maurer, 71, from th...

Several climate activists from Renovate Switzerland temporarily blocked the Mont Blanc Bridge in Geneva on Saturday. They called on the government to speed up the thermal renovation of buildings. The blockade of the road near the bridge at the railw...

Two men’s World Cup downhill ski races that were to start in Switzerland and finish in Italy have been called off owing to a lack of snow on the final 300 metres of the course following an unseasonably warm autumn. Added to the calendar this seaso...

A 48-year-old businessman in Geneva has been given a two-year suspended prison sentence for making a fraudulent claim for a Covid loan that was 100 times the correct amount. He was found guilty of fraud and forgery of documents. “You expressly dec...

Swiss Economics Minister Guy Parmelin assumes the energy crisis will last several years. It is important, he says, not only to think about the winter, but to do everything to ensure that Switzerland produces more energy – that means more renewable ...

Despite worries about power shortages, the light spectacle “Rendez-vous Bundesplatz” will take place again this autumn. For five weeks, starting on Saturday, the show can be seen almost every evening. However, unlike previous years there will be...

Swiss President Ignazio Cassis thanked his Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu for her country’s solidarity with Ukraine at a meeting in Chisinau, capital of Moldova, on Friday. The meeting focused on the consequences of the war in Ukraine and the hum...

Two exhibitions opening on Saturday at Basel Fine Arts Museum (Kunstmuseum) highlight not only important works but explain some of their links with the Nazi era. One of them focuses on Curt Glaser, the Jewish art collector and curator who was persec...

Independent UN experts said on Friday that Switzerland has made advances in certain areas but needs to invest more in others. Speaking at a meeting in Geneva of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), they welcome...

Ground staff at Swiss International Airlines (SWISS) have reached agreement with the company on pay rises from January. "The significant wage increases from January 1 suggest that management has, at least for ground staff, recognised the need to mak...

Reconstruction and humanitarian aid were a main focus of Thursday's talks in Ukraine with Volodymyr Zelensky, Swiss President Ignazio Cassis has told Swiss public broadcaster SRF. "With President Zelensky, it was about the strategic situation of the...

Swiss bank Credit Suisse has sold its stake in a Spanish digital wealth platform as part of a strategic overhaul aimed at reviving its ailing fortunes. Credit Suisse said on Friday that it realised €334 million (CHF328 million) by selling its 8.6%...

The Swiss tourism sector is tipped to experience a positive winter season despite the Ukraine war, escalating energy prices, ongoing lockdowns in China and the strong franc. The KOF Swiss Economic Institute predicts that overnight stays will beat pr...

Switzerland is expecting nearly 50% more asylum applications this year compared to 2021, prompting the erection of new accommodation centres and the support of the army. The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) on Thursday said it expected to recei...

Some 15th Century graffiti, found in King David’s Tomb in Jerusalem, has been attributed to a Swiss knight famed for defending the town of Murten during the Burgundian wars. The graffiti has been presented as evidence that Adrian von Bubenberg mad...

Switzerland has launched an Energy Saving Alliance of companies, government, cantons, civil society and municipalities in an effort to preserve gas and electricity supplies over the winter. The Alpine state is among many European countries facing po...

An online organ transplant register in Switzerland will cease operating after a probe into serious security flaws. Swiss public television SRF found that it was possible to register people on the National Organ Donor Register (NOSR) without their kn...

Swiss pharma giant Novartis has finalised a deal with the Geneva-based Medicines Patent Pool to allow generic production of its patented drug nilotinib to treat chronic myeloid leukemia. The deal, which was formally signed on the sidelines of the Wo...