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2026-05-19
The reorientation of Swiss Federal Railway’s freight business means changes for almost 200 employees. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Employees will have to change their place of work or retrain within the company. Redundancies will be the exception, the company announced on Tuesday. As announced in December, Swiss Railways will …
How Switzerland became a land of coffee
2026-05-16
Only Brazil exports more coffee than Switzerland. How did a small country, where the climate makes it impossible to grow coffee, become the world’s second-largest coffee exporter? It is a story that also has its dark chapters. Switzerland has achieved something economically that defies all logic. With an export value of around CHF3.3 billion ($4.2 …
Gotthard train crash report notes ignored warning signals
2026-05-13
Swiss Federal Railways might have prevented the 2023 Gotthard tunnel train derailment, according to an expert report commissioned by the Ticino public prosecutor’s office. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The consequences of a broken wheel in the Gotthard Base Tunnel in August 2023 were CHF150 million in repair works and …
Formo founder wanted to make Gruyère cheese, but without cows
2026-05-10
Swiss entrepreneur Raffael Wohlgensinger wants to shake up the vegan cheese market in Germany. However, the slow EU approval process is making him look to greener pastures such as the US. The son of a Swiss father and a Brazilian mother, Wohlgensinger grew up in a village in the Winterthur area, northeastern Switzerland, and loves …
Solar Impulse aircraft destroyed in Gulf of Mexico crash
2026-05-08
Solar Impulse 2, a solar‑powered aircraft built in Switzerland that completed a landmark round‑the‑world flight in 2016, has been destroyed after crashing in the Gulf of Mexico. No one was on board. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Sold in 2019 to a Spanish‑American company and later tested by the US …
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