Cluster: Geopolitics

French-Swiss relations back on track, says ambassador

French ambassador to Switzerland Frédéric Journès

This content was published on Nov 30, 2022 French-Swiss relations are back on track after Bern bought American rather than French fighter jets, says ambassador.

International Geneva

Red Cross says it is doing all it can in Ukraine

This content was published on Nov 30, 2022 The ICRC “continues to move heaven and earth” to gain access to all prisoners of war in Ukraine, says its director.

International Geneva

How big is the nuclear threat?

This content was published on Nov 29, 2022 Vladimir Putin has threathened the West and Ukraine with nuclear strikes. How worried should we be?

International Geneva

Inside Geneva: What is the nuclear threat?

This content was published on Nov 29, 2022 Russia has hinted nuclear weapons could be used again. In this podcast episode, Inside Geneva host Imogen Foulkes asks experts how big the threat is.

Foreign Affairs

Arrests dismantle Swiss-Hungarian sex trafficking ring

This content was published on Nov 28, 2022 A coordinated police operation between Switzerland and Hungary has broken up a criminal network involved in trafficking women for forced sex work.

Armoured cars travel down a highway with normal traffic in Switzerland.

Foreign Affairs

Swiss military tests defences against invasion

This content was published on Nov 28, 2022 The largest Swiss military exercises since 1989 test the nation's defences against a possible land invasion.

A decommissioned Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile in Arizona

Foreign Affairs

Switzerland urged to officially renounce nuclear weapons

This content was published on Nov 28, 2022 Political and humanitarian actors have called on Switzerland to sign the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

refugees in Ethiopia from the war in the north

International Geneva

How the war in Ukraine fuels underfunding for other crises

This content was published on Nov 28, 2022 UN refugee agency UNHCR says it is facing an unprecedented funding gap this year. The situation is similar for other aid agencies.

Maurine Mercier avant un de ses duplex télévisés en Ukraine.

Foreign Affairs

‘You can’t cover a war from afar,’ says Swiss reporter in Ukraine

This content was published on Nov 27, 2022 The Kyiv correspondent for Swiss public television RTS, Maurine Mercier, has won two awards this autumn for her humane coverage of the war.

Pascale Baeriswyl, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations

Foreign Affairs

Switzerland prepared for UN Security Council, says Ambassador

This content was published on Nov 25, 2022 The Swiss ambassador to the United Nations says Switzerland is well prepared to take its Security Council seat next year.

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