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Keeping company
Labour agreement faces social test
As support for the free movement of workers accord with the European Union is waning, Swiss employers and unions are agreed on combating labour market abuses and tightening controls. But they are at loggerheads over the issue of minimum wages. [...]
Neither war nor peace
Battle begins against drones and killer robots
The intensive use of drones by the Obama administration is feeding a wave of protest and criticism which reaches Geneva next week when a coalition of NGOs will call for a halt to the race to build technology for autonomous killing robots. [...]
Corporate taxes
Swiss set to tackle divisive fiscal reform
Swiss banking woes
Minister says end to US tax dispute in sight
Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf says a resolution may be not far off to end a long-running dispute with the United States over Swiss banks accused of helping wealthy Americans evade billions of dollars of taxes. [...]
Changes at the top
Surprise shake-up marks Glencore Xstrata meeting
Formula for success
Chinese parents drive baby milk powder boom
Ice hockey
Switzerland take silver at world championships
Switzerland won its first medal at the ice hockey world championships in 60 years, capturing the silver medal after losing to hosts Sweden 5-1 in the final in Stockholm on Sunday. [...]
Gymnastics coach
'It’s a great feeling to fly, to twist, to rotate'
Aerial mapping
Successful takeoff for Swiss commercial drones
Switzerland’s flying robots used for 3D aerial mapping have been a global commercial success. But security and privacy concerns could curb the enthusiasm of a sector which is in full swing.
[...]Cancer discovery
New imaging gives insight into tumours’ travels
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In depth
Swiss travelogues
On the road with Rousseau
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau wrote that “walking animates and enlivens my spirits". The philosopher and writer spent his life wandering across Europe. Here, swissinfo.ch retraces his steps through Switzerland.
Through images past and present, the journey heads from Geneva, where Rousseau was born in 1712, to Môtiers in canton Neuchâtel and St Pierre island on Lake Biel, places he stayed between 1762 and 1765 before leaving Switzerland for good.
(Isabelle Eichenberger, swissinfo.ch. Images: Rolf Amiet, swissinfo.ch / © Musée Môtiers Rousseau / Agence Martienne)
Late recognition
Rousseau finally becomes Swiss
June 28 marks the high point of the commemorations of the 300th birthday of the Geneva writer and philosopher, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It is also a belated official recognition of the role he played in developing Switzerland’s image abroad. [...]
Rousseau revival
Rousseau, a writer with global appeal
Three hundred years after his birth in Geneva, the philosopher and writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau still has a worldwide cult following and his work continues to be translated into other languages. [...]
