Cluster: Swiss Abroad

Picture of the day

View above cloud from Magglingen, canton Bern.

This content was published on Dec 22, 2025 Parts of Switzerland's central Plateau region were extremely grey yesterday, but in some locations the sun was shining. In Magglingen, canton Bern, for example, you could see across the sea of fog to the Bernese Oberland mountains.

Three Swiss nationals arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

This content was published on Dec 22, 2025 Switzerland is aware of three cases of Swiss nationals arrested by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Foreign Affairs

Is Switzerland losing its place in the world?

This content was published on Dec 22, 2025 After a year of tumult, some are warning that a system built on neutrality, consensus and direct democracy is not moving fast enough.

View of a closed window in a run-down Zurich flat.

Demographics

New arrivals make do with the dregs of the Zurich’s housing market

This content was published on Dec 21, 2025 Newcomers from abroad are clearly disadvantaged in Zurich’s tight housing market, at least at the beginning.

Swiss Abroad

The week in Switzerland

This content was published on Dec 20, 2025 Welcome to our selection of some of the biggest – and most colourful – stories in Switzerland over the past seven days.

Picture of the week

This content was published on Dec 20, 2025 The moose in the Zurich Langenberg Wilderness Park are given unusable Christmas trees as a festive treat on Thursday. The Nordmann firs and spruces come from Switzerland and are not suitable for sale.

When the ancient Swiss wanted to be beside the seaside

This content was published on Dec 20, 2025 A museum is looking at the mass migration of Helvetii to the Atlantic coast 2,000 years ago.

After three weeks of back and forth, the House of Representatives and the Senate approved the 2026 budget today.

Swiss Abroad

Switzerland Today

This content was published on Dec 19, 2025 After three weeks of negotiations, the House of Representatives and the Senate have given the green light to the 2026 budget.

Picture of the day

This content was published on Dec 19, 2025 Newly elected Swiss president Guy Parmelin was feted yesterday in his home canton of Vaud with an Imperial (six-litre) bottle of wine.

Picture of the day

This content was published on Dec 18, 2025 In the mountains of Graubünden, the Swiss Federal Armaments Office (Armasuisse) is currently testing attack and defence drones developed by Swiss start-ups. The image shows a defence drone during a test flight.

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