Switzerland will participate in the World Expo 2025 in Osaka
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The government has set aside a budget of CHF17.6 million ($18.8 million) to host a Swiss Pavilion at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, Japan.
Aid agencies launch campaign to help Ukraine war victims
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Swiss-based Red Cross agencies have appealed for CHF250 million to provide food, water and shelter to millions of people in Ukraine.
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The village of Epeisses, west of Geneva, is so realistically modelled on real earthquake or bomb destruction that rescue teams from around the world come to Switzerland to train. Not only the army and civil organisations such as the police and fire brigade use the village for training purposes, but also international organisations like the…
‘Freedom of expression is under pressure even in Switzerland’
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Investigative journalist Marie Maurisse warns about attempts by the powerful to stop the publication of compromising information.
‘We must increase the production of Covid vaccines’
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Political scientist Daniel Warner questions the latest choice Swiss citizens are facing: whether or not to have the Covid vaccine booster shot.
End of ‘endless war’ in Afghanistan presents few solutions
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Daniel Warner says the rapid, unanticipated success of the Taliban in Afghanistan represents a crushing defeat for American foreign policy.
Heard something about Switzerland we should fact check?
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Make suggestions about which assumptions, rumours or long-held beliefs about the Swiss nation we should put under the microscope.
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In a message marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Wednesday, Parmelin called for dialogue, cohesion in society and a spirit of openness. “We should attach even greater importance to these values in times of difficulty that lead to withdrawal, exclusion and the misguided and flawed notion that others are to blame,” he said. Referring to…
