Switzerland is ready to waive profit taxes for United States digital giants, such as Google and Meta, if they base operations in the Alpine state, according to media reports. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The rumoured ta...

Pension funds are complaining about 'negative interest' charges for holding liquid assets in accounts at Switzerland’s largest bank UBS. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox UBS's letter is quite significant. At the end of Ju...

The Schafmatt Observatory has discovered an asteroid moon. Experts are calling it a sensational discovery. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox “It suddenly became clear to me that I had discovered something truly special,”...

The Swiss Federal Wrestling and Alpine Games Festival (ESAF) saw the coronation of 30-year-old Armon Orlik as the new national champion. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The event, held every three years, gathered 56,500 sp...

Switzerland let down the elderly during the Covid pandemic, the country's health director admitted in an interview with in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "They are the people who were most vulne...

Switzerland’s trade group for gold refiners opposes a relocation of some operations to the United States to ease a trade imbalance between the countries and help tariff negotiations, newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported. +Get the most important...

An electricity agreement with the European Union would mean the abolition of minimum tariffs for many photovoltaic installations in Switzerland. This is according to a letter from the Federal Office of Energy to a parliamentarian, which Keystone-SDA ...

The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, was admitted to hospital on Friday evening, the organisation’s press service indicated. His condition does not give cause for concern, but as a precaution he will remain in observation f...

“Not all police officers deserve to be pilloried,” said Emmanuel Fivaz in an interview with Le Matin Dimanche. The president of the Swiss Federation of Police Officers (FSFP) was interviewed in the wake of the scandal over discriminatory Whatsapp...

At the Swiss Wrestling and Alpine Festival in Mollis in canton Glarus on Sunday, Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter celebrated the values practised there. The sport of wrestling enables a peaceful festival and is an expression of solidarity with Swi...

Former Swiss diplomats reiterate their criticism of Switzerland’s stance on the war in the Gaza Strip and the situation on the West Bank. In an open letter, they call on the federal government to take concrete action. +Get the most important news f...

According to the head of the Swiss-US Chamber of Commerce, the ruling by the US Court of Appeal on the tariffs weakens the US government’s negotiating position vis-à-vis Switzerland. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Swit...

Some two thirds of Swiss medtech companies support the new Switzerland-EU package. This is the result of a survey conducted by the opinion research institute JRC. Approval has also increased since the announcement of the US tariffs. +Get the most imp...

Disposable e-cigarettes will no longer be sold in Geneva in the future. The local parliament passed a law to this effect almost unanimously on Friday, with an emergency clause and immediate effect. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in you...

A fatal accident has occurred on the fringes of the Swiss Wrestling and Alpine Festival in Mollis in canton Glarus. A man was hit by a train on Friday evening between Netstal and Näfels near the campsite. +Get the most important news from Switzerlan...

The Social Democratic Party is set to propose the launch of a popular initiative to improve the protection of women. It calls on the federal government to co-finance minimum standards with around CHF500 million ($624 million) per year. +Get the most ...

The committee behind the Compass Initiative submitted the signatures it had collected to the Federal Chancellery on Friday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The petition for a referendum wants to make the new treaties with ...

Esther Grether has died aged 89. Considered one of Switzerland’s leading entrepreneurs, the owner of the Basel-based Doetsch Grether Group was also a major shareholder in the Swatch Group and an art collector. +Get the most important news from Swit...

The flag of the Swiss Wrestling Federation has been received at the start of the Swiss Wrestling and Alpine Festival in Mollis, canton Glarus. It will then be officially handed over on Sunday at the ceremony in the wrestling arena. +Get the most impo...

The 16 carved figurine heads in the auditorium of the Hirschengraben school building in Zurich are not discriminatory, according to an independent expert report. However, the report recommends placing the figures in a historical context. +Get the mos...

Staff at the Federal Office of Customs and Border Protection have seized a king python in Porto Ronco, canton Ticino. They found the non-venomous snake during a check on the car of an Italian living in Switzerland. +Get the most important news from S...

Ten parties reported income totalling CHF22.4 million ($28 million) for 2024, less than in the 2023 election year. Most of the income was received by the left-wing Social Democratic Party. The reports are based on the regulations for transparency in ...

Former FIFA officials Sepp Blatter and Markus Kattner do not have to pay back their own bonuses or the bonus totalling CHF23 million ($28.7 million) paid to another FIFA official to FIFA. This was decided by the Zurich industrial tribunal. +Get the m...

Cancer cells manipulate neighbouring cells for their own purposes. A research team at the Swiss federal technology institute ETH Zurich has discovered that they can reprogram neighbouring cells to help the tumour grow. +Get the most important news fr...

The ban on non-residents entering the swimming pool in Porrentruy, canton Jura, expires on Sunday and would be extended until the end of the season, the mayor told the Swiss News Agency Keystone-SDA. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in y...

The authorities should be allowed to order forced relocations if there is a medium-term risk of a natural event, according to 58% of participants in a survey. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A survey for Blick found that 3...

Representatives of the Belgian embassy, the Swiss district and the local population are honouring Queen Astrid at a ceremony on Friday. She died 90 years ago at the age of 29 in a car accident between Küssnacht and Merlischachen. +Get the most impor...

Since Friday, the United States has abolished duty-free imports of goods with a value of less than $800 (CHF640). +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox President Donald Trump had initially cancelled the exemption for China, and ...

Austrian Chancellor Christian Stocker has made his first official visit to Switzerland since taking office. The talks in Bern with Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter and Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis centred on bilateral relations. +Get the most i...

All 17 top projects of the Swiss armed forces are to be monitored by external consultants from the start of 2026, including the procurement of F-35 fighter jets. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The Federal Department of D...