Cluster: Swiss Identity

Slight improvement for Switzerland in equality ranking

This content was published on Dec 17, 2019 Switzerland has jumped two spots, from 20th to 18th, in the World Economic Forum’s annual Gender Gap Report.

Demographics

FIFA sues Blatter and Platini for CHF2 million

This content was published on Dec 16, 2019 The payment was conducted between the two former FIFA executives in 2011 and was instrumental in the duo receiving bans from football activities four years later. Both men have repeatedly denied that they did anything wrong. Last month, FIFA’s governance committee called for the body to take legal action on the payment, noting that the…

Demographics

Heart disease and cancer still biggest causes of death

This content was published on Dec 16, 2019 Cardiovascular disease and cancer were the two most widespread causes of death in Switzerland in 2017, new statistics have shown.

Demographics

Extinction Rebellion repeat climate protest in western Switzerland

This content was published on Dec 14, 2019 Around 500 highly-organised group members blocked a street in the city of Lausanne on Lake Geneva calling for urgent measures to combat climate change.

Demographics

The Swiss are building empty homes in the suburbs

This content was published on Dec 14, 2019 There are enough of them, but in the wrong places – this is the housing market in Switzerland. Photographer Sophie Stieger has documented the paradox.

Demographics

Basel boy death: elderly woman charged with murder

This content was published on Dec 13, 2019 The 75-year-old woman who stabbed a boy to death in Basel in March, has been charged with murder.

Education

Five further positive TB tests in Switzerland

This content was published on Dec 13, 2019 A further five people have tested positive for tuberculosis in Switzerland. But they have not become ill, officials say.

Ueli Steck durchstieg am Montag, den 14. Januar 2015, solo und ungesichert die Eigernordwand

Culture

High up in the Swiss Alps

This content was published on Dec 13, 2019

Is Switzerland a utopia of wealth distribution?

This content was published on Dec 13, 2019 It's been said that Switzerland is a less socialist but more successful utopia than Scandinavia. Is there any truth in this?

Culture

Swiss Easter processions gain UNESCO stamp

This content was published on Dec 13, 2019 The Holy Week processions in Mendrisio, in the southern canton of Ticino, have been awarded UNESCO intangible cultural heritage status.

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