Neutrality

Fake news spread abroad about Switzerland is a liability

This content was published on Sep 5, 2025 False claims about Swiss neutrality are circulating internationally. Switzerland needs to do more to ensure that other countries do not have a false image of the country. A Swissinfo analysis.

Neutrality

Swiss neutrality: your questions answered

This content was published on Sep 3, 2025 Swiss neutrality isn’t always easy to understand. You sent us your questions, and we’ve answered a selection of them.

from left, US President Gerald Ford, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet Prime Minister Andrei Gromyko, walk in front of the Soviet embassy in Helsinki during the CSCE 1975 conference.

Swiss diplomacy

50 years of the Helsinki Accords: Switzerland’s role between the blocs

This content was published on Jul 24, 2025 Switzerland played an important role in the adoption of the pan-European set of rules in the 1970s that gave rise to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).

War & peace

US delays delivery of Patriot missiles to Switzerland

This content was published on Jul 17, 2025 The US Department of Defense is reprioritising the delivery of Patriot systems in order to give more support to Ukraine.

Opinion

Foreign Affairs

Does neutrality promote peace? A look at Switzerland and its good offices

This content was published on Jul 15, 2025 Neutrality is not a necessary condition for the success of good offices, argues historian Liliane Stadler.

Swiss diplomacy

Cuban diplomats eye Switzerland in bid to ease US economic pressure

This content was published on Jul 11, 2025 As tensions rise again between Cuba and the US, Cuban diplomats are quietly looking to Switzerland to help restore a constructive dialogue.

Human rights

The death penalty around the world in 90 seconds

This content was published on Jul 10, 2025 While the global trend toward abolishing the death penalty continues, the number of executions worldwide rose in 2024.

Locarno City Archives, Rodolfo Huber, Locarno Pact centenary

War & peace

How Locarno became the ‘city of peace’

This content was published on Jul 9, 2025 The Swiss city of Locarno rose to diplomatic fame in 1925 when a set of post-war treaties were negotiated there, leaving behind an enduring legacy of peace and tolerance.

Delegates inside the meeting hall in Locarno, 1925

War & peace

Forgotten Swiss peace pact has lessons for Europe on ending bloodshed

This content was published on Jul 9, 2025 The Locarno Pact, negotiated in Switzerland 100 years ago, still reverberates today as Europe once again deals with war and US isolationism.

Total discretion: the offices of bankers Edmond de Rothschild in Geneva

Culture

‘Quiet neutrality’: snapshots of Switzerland’s embrace of oligarchs

This content was published on Jul 4, 2025 To what extent is Switzerland really 'neutral'? Swiss-Russian artist Anastasia Mityukova’s photography project ‘Quiet Neutrality’ explores this question.

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