Geopolitics

Geneva to host signing of Iran-US peace treaty

The peace treaty would open up the Strait of Hormuz

This content was published on Jun 15, 2026 US and Iran set to end hostilities by signing a peace treaty in the Swiss city of Geneva.

Clashes during the anti-G7 protest in Geneva

Foreign Affairs

Protesters smash windows and set car ablaze in anti-G7 protest in Geneva

This content was published on Jun 14, 2026 Protesters set fire to a car and smashed the windows of a bank in Geneva on Sunday during an anti-G7 march in the Swiss city.

As a signatory to the Rome Statute, Switzerland would be obliged to arrest and extradite Putin if he were to enter its territory.

Foreign Affairs

ICC ruling limits Switzerland over Putin arrest warrant

This content was published on Jun 13, 2026 The International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague says Switzerland must not allow Vladimir Putin to enter the country – even for peace talks.

Davos World Biodiversity Forum: a call to action

Foreign Affairs

Experts gather in Davos to tackle biodiversity crisis

This content was published on Jun 13, 2026 More than 1,000 experts from over 70 countries will convene in Davos, in southeastern Switzerland, from June 14–19 for the World Biodiversity Forum to explore solutions to global species extinction.

Members of the Swiss Border Guard Corps accompany an asylum seeker who entered Switzerland by train without papers to take his personal data and to question him about his reasons of entry, captured at the train station at the Swiss-Italian border in Chiasso, Switzerland, on October 23, 2014. (KEYSTONE/Gaetan Bally)

Foreign Affairs

Italy to resume accepting Dublin asylum cases from Switzerland

This content was published on Jun 13, 2026 The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) has confirmed that Italy is once again willing to take back asylum-seekers under the Dublin framework.

NATO is withdrawing its peacekeeping force from Kosovo – Swisscoy is not affected

Foreign Affairs

NATO withdraws peacekeepers from Kosovo – Swisscoy unaffected

This content was published on Jun 13, 2026 NATO will scale back its KFOR force in Kosovo, but Swisscoy troops will remain unaffected and continue their mission on the ground.

Customs duties will remain in place after Trump, says SECO chief

Swiss Politics

SECO chief says Trump-era tariffs are here to stay

This content was published on Jun 13, 2026 The head of Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) expects US tariffs to persist beyond Donald Trump’s presidency.

Internally displaced Sudanese people carry water in the Al Heshan camp, on the outskirts of Port Sudan, on 15 April 2026.

International Geneva

MSF in Sudan: ‘It’s very hard to reach people in need’

This content was published on Jun 12, 2026 MSF Switzerland’s Sudan chief Mohamed Ahmed warns of growing pressure on aid groups as conflict worsens – and the rising risk to aid workers. We met him in Geneva.