In a poll, the Swiss people have come out against an increase in value-added tax (VAT) in favour of the army or the 13th month of old-age pension (AHV/AVS). These are the findings of a poll conducted on behalf of the newspaper Blick. +Get the most im...

Switzerland has lost ground in the fight against corruption in the public sector. In the latest ranking by the organisation Transparency International, it has dropped one place to 6th place. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox...

Teenage pranks like egg‑throwing are no reason to deny a Swiss passport, an Aargau court has ruled, as it upheld an Eritrean woman’s appeal against a naturalisation refusal. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The young wo...

Swiss pair Franjo von Allmen and Tanguy Nef won gold in the Olympic Alpine skiing men's team combined on Monday. Mathilde Gremaud also retained her Olympic title in the slopestyle freestyle skiing competition. +Get the most important news from Switze...

Swiss authorities are investigating a possible link between infant formula contaminated with the toxin cereulide and symptoms of illnesses that have appeared in babies in recent days. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Fe...

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has opened the first of five international conferences marking Switzerland's chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in 2026. The two-day meeting on combating anti-Semitism ...

The tug-of-war between Swatch Group and US activist investor Steven Wood has entered a new phase. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The American shareholder, via his company Greenwood Investors, has launched a two-pronged of...

The Swiss pharma company Novartis has begun work on a new global biomedical research centre in San Diego, United States. The 43,300 m2 facility will be operational in 2029 and house around 1,000 employees. +Get the most important news from Switzerlan...

An alliance behind an initiative to protect Swiss food from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has gathered more than 133,000 signatures, it announced on Monday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The initiative committee ...

A former municipal safety inspection officer of Crans-Montana was questioned by Valais prosecutors on Monday in connection with a fatal bar fire on New Year's Eve. Criminal proceedings have been opened against him. +Get the most important news from S...

Brussels has granted a humanitarian exemption to Jacques Baud, a former Swiss colonel who has been sanctioned by the European Union for promoting conspiracy narratives and false claims about the war in Ukraine. +Get the most important news from Switz...

Fourteen young dancers were awarded prizes at this year's prestigious Prix de Lausanne international dance competition. Seventy-nine participants - 41 girls and 38 boys - from 18 countries took part in the event. +Get the most important news from Swi...

A Swiss woman was hit with a five-day suspended prison sentence for importing a pink water pistol to go with her intended carnival outfit. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The sentence for illegally importing a firearm was ...

A fire broke out at a memorial dedicated to the victims of a Swiss bar blaze, before being extinguished. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The fire brigade quickly brought the blaze under control and no-one was injured. The ...

Several thousand people in the southern Swiss city of Bellinzona have demonstrated against the "CHF200 francs is enough!" public broadcaster financing initiative. The participants - 6,000 according to the organisers, 2,000 according to the police - s...

Stefan Bollinger, CEO of Zurich-based private bank Julius Bär, has called for a Swiss register of bad bankers. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "The advantages of registering financial market players are obvious," Bollinge...

On the fringes of the Winter Olympic Games, Swiss President Guy Parmelin spoke with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni about the fatal fire at a Swiss bar on New Year’s Eve. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The pair ex...

Switzerland’s Franjo von Allmen has won the first gold medal of the Winter Olympic Games in Italy after winning the men’s downhill race. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The 24-year-old claimed the title ahead of Italia...

More than 250 Swiss academics have sent an open letter to the ministry for education calling for the termination of a research agreement with Israel. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The letter to State Secretariat for Educ...

The Swiss domestic pharmaceutical market recorded a 5% increase in revenues of CHF8.1 billion at factory prices, last year. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Turnover expansion was held back 2.4% by price reductions enforced...

The 25th Winter Olympic Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, are underway with Nino Niederreiter and Fanny Smith leading out the 175 Swiss athletes at the opening ceremony on Friday evening. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in yo...

Fewer Swiss tourists are travelling to the United States. Despite optimal financial conditions, with the dollar at its lowest level against the franc since 2015, arrivals in the United States from Switzerland are set to fall again. +Get the most impo...

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the most important institution for supporting the peace process in Ukraine, said its chair, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis, during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Serge...

Stadler and Siemens have received a huge order from Denmark. They are supplying 226 trains for the Copenhagen suburban railway. The order is worth around €3 billion (CHF2.75 billion). +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Ther...

The uncertain world situation with US President Donald Trump, wars and the economy in Europe are popular subjects for Basel Fasnacht 2026, the Fasnacht (carnival) committee said on Friday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A...

The film festival umbrella organisation "Conférence des Festivals" has warned of the consequences of the licence fee initiative, on which Swiss voters will decide on March 8. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This would sev...

For years, car manufacturer Tesla led the field in terms of e-car sales in Switzerland. Now the US company has fallen out of the top ten. An industry expert is not surprised. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox For years, Tesl...

Alberto Giacometti's major works from his surrealist period and his famous sculptures from the period after 1945 are now on display in two rooms in the Chipperfield Building of the Kunsthaus Zürich. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in y...

This weekend, the valley of La Brévine in canton Neuchâtel hosts the 12th edition of the Fête du Froid (festival of cold). The organisers are planning a number of activities to coincide with the Olympic Games, which are being held at the same time...

Supporters and opponents of the four issues to be put to the vote on March 8 have announced sums totalling CHF8.75 million ($11.25 million), according to the Swiss Federal Audit Office on Friday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your ...