The president of the National Science Foundation's research council has warned of the negative impact of Switzerland's continued exclusion from the European Union's Horizon research programme. "It will damage both science and the economy if we are n...

Swiss Finance Minister Ueli Maurer has welcomed the establishment of a global pandemic fund to help boost the health systems and close budget gaps. In a video call on Saturday, Maurer pledged a financial contribution from Switzerland to the fund, ac...

Switzerland has signed an agreement with Ghana on Saturday to offset greenhouse gas emissions of the government administration. Under the deal signed on Saturday, Switzerland will promote climate-friendly, low-methane rice production techniques in i...

The chief Swiss negotiator, Livia Leu, says Switzerland and the European Union have reached an agreement to set sights on another series of bilateral treaties. The approach has a clear advantage over the institutional framework agreement and offer m...

The Swiss president, Ignazio Cassis, says France is willing to relaunch a dialogue on close cooperation. Cassis was speaking in Paris on Friday following talks with the French president, Emanuel Macron, on the sidelines of an international conferenc...

Some 2,000 construction workers from German-speaking cantons gathered in Zurich on Friday to call for improvements to their working conditions. Building sites were stopped as construction workers took part in the demonstration in the city centre, or...

Less than ten days to go before kick-off, World Cup host Qatar and Zurich-based FIFA continue to face intense criticism from human rights groups and observers over the Gulf state’s treatment of migrant workers and its human rights record. On Frida...

The Swiss National Bank (SNB) may raise interest rates again to fight Swiss inflation which remains “too high”, SNB governing board member Andrea Maechler said in an interview published on Friday. Swiss inflation dipped to 3% in October from 3.3...

Iran should be barred from the football World Cup amid widespread protests in the country sparked by the death in custody of a young woman, former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has told a Swiss newspaper. Blatter told the Blick newspaper he would have...

A water-activated biodegradable battery made of paper and powered by salt and inks features among the 200 best inventions of the year in TIME Magazine. It was created by researchers at the Swiss Federal Laboratory for Materials Testing and Research (...

The Swiss foreign ministry has filed a criminal complaint over an apparent leak to the media on minister Ignazio Cassis’s recent visit to Ukraine. His ministry on Friday confirmed the report by Swiss daily Le Temps concerning a complaint to the At...

Sweden’s Supreme Court has ruled that Swiss citizen Alex Schneiter, a former boss at Swedish oil firm Lundin, can be tried in Sweden for alleged “complicity in war crimes” in Sudan. The court on Thursday threw out Schneiter’s argument that S...

The Swiss financial sector is facing mounting risks due to uncertainty over lending and interest rates, according to the Swiss financial watchdog (FINMA). The “FINMA Risk Monitoring 2022" report published on Thursday identified seven principal ris...

A Syrian woman who experienced a miscarriage while being deported by train to Italy in 2014 has been awarded CHF12,000 ($12,400) in damages by a Swiss court for the neglect she experienced during her transfer. The Syrian woman had been intercepted a...

A Swiss government report has found that measures to combat antibiotic resistance in Switzerland are bearing fruit. There has been a decline in the use and prescription of antibiotics for both human and veterinary medicine. The “Swiss Antibiotic R...

A study by Lausanne-based scientists has identified the neurons that may help to improve walking ability post-paralysis. Research carried out for several years with a group of patients with lower body paralysis, led by Grégoire Courtine of the Fede...

Switzerland’s top negotiator at the COP27 talks, Franz Perrez, has been defending the Alpine country’s climate policy. Unlike other countries, Switzerland “implements decisions taken”, he told the Le Temps newspaper. “Our objectives are ...

The agreement, signed by the UK and Switzerland, is intended to deepen ties between their respective research and innovation communities at a time when both countries are on the sidelines of the European Union’s major scientific research funding sc...

An external investigation into the Swiss government’s procurement of Covid-19 vaccines has revealed that two contracts with vaccine manufacturers were signed prior to parliament’s sign-off of funds. However, this didn’t constitute a legal viola...

A racing car driven by legendary Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher has fetched a record CHF13 million ($13.2 million) at an auction in Switzerland. The car in question is the Ferrari from the 2003 Formula 1 season, with which the German wo...

The Swiss government has approved the use of emergency power generators for the coming winter to provide a total output of 280 megawatts (MW). The generators are generally used by municipalities or companies, for example to supply electricity to dri...

The Swiss government has extended the special legal status for Ukrainian refugees and the support measures for another year. Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter said an improvement of the situation in Ukraine was not foreseeable in the near future ...

The Swiss government has called for efforts to boost conflict detection methods amid the war in Ukraine which poses a threat to Switzerland's security and peace in Europe. The annual report adopted on Wednesday paints a bleak picture. In particular,...

The Swiss government wants to ease restrictions for culling the growing number of wolves living notably in alpine regions of the country. Under the plan submitted to cantons and organisations for consultation, the culling of individual wolves which ...

Murat Yakin, manager of the Swiss national football team, will lean on experience at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. On Wednesday he named several veterans, including Granit Xhaka and Xherdan Shaqiri, in a 26-man squad for this month’s tournament. F...

The Swiss government has pledged CHF25 million ($25.3 million) to continue its support for the United Nations Education Cannot Wait fund (ECW) for the period 2022-24. Education is a key element of child protection and creates prospects, offers hope ...

Swiss journalist Sarah Jollien-Fardel has won this year’s Choix Goncourt de la Suisse literary prize for her debut novel Sa préférée (The Favourite) about domestic violence. Jollien-Fardel from canton Valais in western Switzerland recently won ...

A pear-shaped 18-carat pink diamond billed as a rarity has sold at a Geneva auction for CHF28.4 million ($28.8 million), including fees and taxes. The “Fortune Pink” fancy vivid pink stone, said to be the largest of its kind and shape to go on t...

A few dozen people have protested in front of the FIFA Museum in Zurich to press for the rights of the LGBT+ community ahead of the World Cup hosted by Gulf state Qatar. Some football players have raised concerns over the rights of fans travelling t...

Police have searched two branches of Swiss bank UBS in Germany in connection with alleged money laundering by a Russian businessman, according to German officials and media. On Tuesday Frankfurt prosecutor Georg Ungefuk did not identify the suspect ...