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Switzerland tightens Russia sanctions in finance and oil sectors
2025-10-30
Three and a half months after the European Union, Switzerland is also implementing new sanctions against Russia. The package includes further export restrictions on goods to strengthen industry as well as goods to strengthen Russia’s military and technological capabilities. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This is the 18th package …
Swiss trade union says Sunday leave is out of the question
2025-10-26
Switzerland’s trade union Unia today reiterated its opposition to the extension of Sunday working, which it considers harmful to the health of sales staff. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Unia, on the last day of its congress in Brig, canton Valais, denounced plans to expand the number of Sunday …
Swiss pharma exports to Russia continue despite war
2025-10-21
More than three and a half years after Moscow’s attack on Ukraine, exports of the Swiss pharmaceutical industry to Russia remain largely stable. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Companies justify this with their responsibility towards patients, but there is no shortage of criticism. According to figures from the Federal Customs …
The global private education industry is coming for Switzerland’s expensive schools
2025-09-04
Verbier’s pandemic-era growth triggered an elite schooling boom — and a merger that could reshape private education in the Swiss Alps. In March 2020, Ariane de Bonvoisin was skiing in Verbier, Switzerland, with her husband and her son. A native of New York, she had skied there since childhood and her family had a chalet …
Swiss Post to re-start shipping some packages to US
2025-09-02
From Thursday, private customers will once again be able to send packages with a value of up to $100 (CHF80) to the United States via Swiss Post. Due to the new customs regulations, Swiss Post had suspended all goods shipments to the US last week. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox …
UBS charges pension funds to hold their liquid assets
2025-09-01
Pension funds are complaining about ‘negative interest’ charges for holding liquid assets in accounts at Switzerland’s largest bank UBS. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox UBS’s letter is quite significant. At the end of June, the bank informed its institutional clients – primarily pension funds and insurance companies – in writing …
Swiss inaction threatens global antibiotic development push
2025-07-08
Switzerland is a major hub for pharmaceutical companies, but it has done little to encourage the development of new antibiotics – a shortfall that could have serious consequences at home and abroad. Global health experts have long warned that resistance to antimicrobials, including antibiotics, is a slow-moving crisis with deadly consequences. In 2019, antimicrobial resistance …
Swiss face “difficult” pharma negotiations with Mercosur
2025-07-04
Work still needs to be done on pharmaceutical products as part of the free trade agreement signed with Mercosur, said Swiss Economics Minister Guy Parmelin. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox However, Parmelin added that the outcome of the negotiations was very good. “The negotiations were difficult right up to the …
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