Cluster: Swiss Identity

Cultural aid cuts deal blow to Global South creatives – and Swiss diplomacy

Ibrahim Mahama's installation at the Kunsthalle in Bern

This content was published on May 16, 2025 Switzerland is among many countries slashing foreign aid, including funding for the arts. Cultural institutions argue these cuts hurt artists – and donors' national interests.

Photo of a woman in front of Kunsthalle museum

Swiss diplomacy

How a Swiss fund helps Global South artists connect with rest of the world

This content was published on May 16, 2025 SWI swissinfo.ch speaks to Ghanaian artist Ibrahim Mahama as cuts to Switzerland's cultural development assistance budget loom.

Eurovision: a surprise selection on Thursday evening

Culture

Eurovision final line-up confirmed after second semi-final

This content was published on May 16, 2025 We now know the 20 countries who be competing in the final in Basel on Saturday evening.

Children play at a traveller site in Nidau, near Biel, 1954.

History

How Switzerland, Scotland and Norway seized children from itinerant families

This content was published on May 15, 2025 In the 20th century, Yenish children in Switzerland were placed in institutions as part of a state-backed effort to destroy their way of life. Similar practices existed in Norway and Scotland.

Switzerland: 30% more births on weekdays

Demographics

Friday most popular ‘birth day’ in Switzerland

This content was published on May 13, 2025 Fridays are the preferred day for babies to be born in Switzerland, according to a report by the Federal Statistical Office.

Céline Dion will not be performing at the ESC in Basel

Culture

Céline Dion will not perform at Eurovision in Basel

This content was published on May 13, 2025 Canadian Singer Céline Dion will not be performing at the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) in Basel.

Park of Rachmaninoff villa in Hertenstein LU becomes accessible

Culture

Public gain access to park of Rachmaninoff villa in Lucerne

This content was published on May 13, 2025 The canton of Lucerne is opening the park of Villa Senar in Hertenstein LU to the public from 15 May. The Russian composer Serge Rachmaninoff lived in the building on Lake Lucerne from 1932 to 1939.

Zurich cantonal council insists on complete Bührle provenance research

Culture

Zurich parliament insists on Bührle art collection provenance research

This content was published on May 12, 2025 The Zurich cantonal parliament has insisted that the Zurich Art Society and the Bührle Foundation clarify the provenance of all paintings.

Demographics

‘Without immigration, more than a third of the Swiss population would disappear per generation’

This content was published on May 12, 2025 Switzerland is a country of emigration but also immigration. This is typical of an open, globalised country, says political analyst Michael Hermann.

Two people in silhouette look at mobile phones while a contrail of an aircraft is seen in the sky in the evening twilight, at Zurich Kloten Airport, pictured in Ruemlang, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (KEYSTONE/Michael Buholzer)

Demographics

No house generation: the impossibility of buying property in Switzerland

This content was published on May 12, 2025 In many countries, buying a home is slipping further out of reach for young people. Switzerland is no exception.

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