Cluster: Swiss Identity

Swiss National Costume Festival opens with colourful fanfare in Zurich

Women and men in traditional costume are shown walking on the street in front of Zurich's Hauptbahnhof.

This content was published on Jun 28, 2024 The festival, in Zurich for a third time, runs from Friday through Sunday, with an array of things to do and see.

An art gallery with framed paintings hanging on the walls.

Culture

Historian urges further scrutiny of Zurich art collection’s provenance

This content was published on Jun 28, 2024 An investigation led by Raphael Gross concluded that the provenance of the collection's pieces and also its name warrant a closer look.

Demographics

“Chriesisturm”: canton Zug’s Cherry Race

This content was published on Jun 28, 2024 An ancient race featuring 8-metre-long ladders: the Chriesisturm in Zug is Switzerland's oldest living cherry tradition.

Primary school class 1c pictured during a double science and reading lesson at the schoolhouse Vinci, Public School Suhr, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, on June 25, 2018. The Public School Suhr consists of kindergartens, primary schools and senior classes. (KEYSTONE/Christian Beutler)

Education

Inclusive schools: beneficial for all?

This content was published on Jun 28, 2024 Inclusive schools, where children with disabilities are enrolled in regular schools, have been an issue of debate in Switzerland for several years.

Culture

Breaking protocol: Jojo Mayer and the machine

This content was published on Jun 27, 2024 He is one of the most influential drummers of recent decades, known both as a skilled technician and a visionary. Jojo Mayer talks to SWI swissinfo.ch about technology, tradition – and the future of music.

Maintenance workers wearing orange uniforms and hard hats with torches on the front walk towards the camera through the Gotthard tunnel. They are both looking at the ground. The tunnel looms huge above them and can be seen splitting into two tubes in the background.

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Gotthard Base Tunnel on track to fully re-open in September

This content was published on Jun 27, 2024 Rail operations through the vital tunnel will resume in full on September 2, with repair work in the west tube going as planned, Swiss Federal Railways has said.

An old-fashioned brown radio in a secondhand shop. Behind it can be seen various lamps.

Demographics

Swiss Broadcasting Corporation to pull plug on FM radio

This content was published on Jun 27, 2024 Amid a shift to digital and online radio, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation will switch off analogue FM transmitters at the end of December.

Bern and Biel enter the race for Eurovision Song Contest 2025

Culture

Bern and Biel/Bienne enter the Swiss race to host Eurovision 2025

This content was published on Jun 27, 2024 Swiss cities are jostling to host next year's Eurovision Song Contest (ESC): Geneva, Basel, Zurich, and a Bern-Biel joint bid have all thrown their hat in the ring.

A seven-storey blocks of flats, with a jagged and colourful facade. The bottom part of the building is brown, the middle is yellow and the top is light blue. The balconies stick out at triangular angles.

Demographics

Swiss housing and mobility costs continue to outpace inflation

This content was published on Jun 27, 2024 The cost of housing and mobility in Switzerland again rose faster than official inflation last month.

A mother holds hands with her daughter as they walk to the first day of kindergarten. The woman is dressed in a business outfit.

Demographics

Equality not achieved in Switzerland according to the Federal Council

This content was published on Jun 26, 2024 Equality between women and men has not yet been achieved in Switzerland. But the targeted promotion of gender equality represents significant progress.

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