Switzerland crashed out of the European football championship by losing their quarterfinal match against Spain on penalties on Friday. The match ended 1-1 after extra-time but Spain scored three penalties to Switzerland’s one in the Euro 2020 knoc...

The average CO2 emissions of new cars in Switzerland fell more than 10% last year to 123.6 grams per kilometre - but still missed a target of 95g/km. This is despite CHF132.5 million ($143 million) in financial penalties being levied on passenger ca...

Calm is returning to UNRWA, the UN’s embattled Palestinian refugee agency, its new Swiss head says. Philippe Lazzarini, who took up the job on April 1 last year, told the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) that the institution had overcome its crisis of ...

Swiss electricity providers are vulnerable to a Colonial Pipeline style ransomware attacks, according to a report from the Swiss Federal Office for Energy. While certain weaknesses against cyberattacks have previously been identified, progress towar...

Young Swiss people are much more concerned about climate change than their peers in other countries, according to a survey by consultants Deloitte. Global warming was the largest worry for two out of five Millennials – those aged 27-38 years old. ...

Despite its reservations, Switzerland said Thursday it will go along with a global corporate minimum tax. Breakthrough negotiations yielded consensus on the issue at the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). A Th...

Women make up less than a quarter of people appearing in Swiss print and online media articles, a figure which has hardly changed since 2015, according to a study. Apart from a short-lived small boost in 2019, most likely due to the women’s strike...

Most Swiss accept the idea of legalising cannabis for recreational purposes provided there are rules to protect minors, according to a survey published on Thursday. Nearly two-thirds of people surveyed want the minimum age of consumption to be set a...

A day after the government’s decision to opt for US-made fighter jets, some papers praise the pragmatic and cost-effective choice. Others consider it a geopolitical mistake and a setback for Swiss-EU relations. On Wednesday, after months of specul...

Switzerland has announced new sanctions against the Myanmar’s ruling junta in retaliation for the ongoing repression since it took power. Eight individuals were added to the list of those targeted, including the attorney general, four ministers and...

The Swiss government has set out plans to contain the impact of a potential new wave of Covid-19 infections later this year. At the same time, it said it will donate four million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine to the Covax global distribution allia...

The Swiss government wants to upgrade the country’s air defence system by buying 36 F-35A fighter aircraft from United States manufacturer Lockheed Martin and five Patriot surface-to-air missile units from another US firm Raytheon. The Federal Cou...

A new type of Covid-19 certificate will be available in Switzerland from next month that hides personal health data from prying eyes. The “light” certificate will be an electronic copy of the original Covid-19 document. It will prove that the or...

The Swiss justice authorities have opened a criminal probe into a suspected kickback scheme in Ecuador involving commodity trading companies in Geneva. The proceedings are aimed at clarifying “whether in relation to this complex of facts any offen...

Finance Minister Ueli Maurer has ruled out massive spending cuts to cope with the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic in Switzerland. In an interview with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung newspaper, Maurer said it should be possible to reduce the debt...

“Dad full-time, mum part-time” is the employment model in Switzerland for 53% of families with children aged under 25. This is followed by “dad earns the bread, mum bakes it”, according to latest figures from the Federal Statistical Office. ...

The operators of Germany's main stock exchange have paid more than CHF100 million ($108 million) for a majority stake in Swiss cryptocurrency service provider Crypto Finance. The move reflects a growing trend of traditional financial institutions ge...

Opponents of the planned partial abolition of a tax on financial transactions in Switzerland are seeking to challenge it to a nationwide vote. Left-wing parties including the Social Democrats and the Greens as well as trade unions on Tuesday launche...

While the Covid-19 pandemic has caused existential hardship for many employees, CEOs and shareholders have “shamelessly helped themselves”, according to a union study. “The pay gap remains wide open at a very high level,” trade union Unia wr...

The Swiss national football team has reached the quarterfinals of a major tournament for the first time since 1954 with a dramatic victory against France. Switzerland beat the reigning world champions 5-4 on penalties after the two sides traded thre...

The United States has extended its requests for Swiss banks to disclose full details of client accounts held by US citizens. Switzerland’s Federal Tax Administration on Monday published a list of 40 banks, fiduciary firms and insurance companies. ...

A French court has rejected a challenge filed by Swiss bank UBS linked to constitutional aspects of its French tax case. This confirms that judges will rule in September on the bank’s appeal against a €4.5 billion (CHF4.9 billion) fine. UBS is l...

Official figures have confirmed the economic shock to Swiss tourism caused by the Covid-19 pandemic last year. Revenue from international tourism fell by almost 48% to CHF9.4 billion ($10.3 billion), reaching the same level seen in the early 1990s, ...

Convictions for drug abuse among minors dropped last year in Switzerland, but young people committed more violent crimes, according to official statistics. The authorities recorded a 23% increase in violent crimes. The 7,944 verdicts included assaul...

Swiss banks have some catching up to do when it comes to structural change and digitalisation, says Ralph Hamers, CEO of Swiss bank UBS. In his opinion structural change has taken place much faster in other countries and industries than in Switzerlan...

Swiss volunteer fire brigades are finding it difficult to cope with the rise in extreme weather events in the country. On Sunday, news agency Keystone-SDA reported that at least 200 army personnel were being deployed to the village of Cressier in ...

Ahead of the Swiss government’s decision on a major fighter jet contract, Airbus has made an appeal to the Swiss government to choose a European firm after leaked information from the government revealed US firm Lockheed Martin was out ahead of com...

Switzerland plans to boost its Covid-19 vaccination campaign over the summer with the aim to reach 80% of the population according to the Sunday papers. This comes amid growing concerns about the more contagious Delta coronavirus variant. To date, a...

Swiss tennis star Roger Federer plans to reassess whether he will compete at the Tokyo Olympics after Wimbledon, which begins on Monday. During a press conference on Saturday, Federer told reporters that he wanted to wait and see how the tournamen...

Swiss immunology experts estimate mRNA vaccination could provide more than two times the length of protection against severe Covid-19 infection than natural infection. In a policy brief published on Friday, the Swiss National Covid Science Task Forc...