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Disposable income, Zurich’s conversion therapy ban and gold coins stolen from a Swiss museum

2025-11-21

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Most Swiss households have a disposable income below the national average, Zurich considers a ban on conversion therapies, and has Switzerland just had its own Louvre-style heist? Here are three stories from Switzerland this week. Visit Swissinfo to read the latest. --- swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international...

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Why Swiss farmers dye surplus tubers for animal feed

2025-11-21

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2025-11-21

A bumper harvest has left Swiss farmers with more potatoes than the market can handle. Instead of ending up on dinner plates, many will be fed to cows – but only after being coloured and the farmers compensated. In the barn of farmer Andreas Schwab in canton Bern, three large trailers are piled high with … Continue...

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Davos assured Trump ‘woke’ topics were off the agenda

2025-11-21

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2025-11-21

Donald Trump agreed to attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos in January after organisers gave assurances that overtly “woke” topics would not feature prominently at the annual Alpine gathering, according to people familiar with the talks. At a meeting in the autumn, Trump administration officials asked WEF officials to scrub or pare …

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Swiss again European train champions

2025-11-20

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2025-11-20

Every Swiss resident travelled an average of 2,519 kilometres by train last year, surpassing the 2019 record of 2,505 kilometres. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox On average, everyone in Switzerland used the train 71 times in 2024. Compared with the previous year, the number of kilometres travelled (+2.2%) and the …

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UBS boss dismisses Swiss exodus rumours as ‘absurd’

2025-11-20

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2025-11-20

UBS CEO Sergio Ermotti dismisses speculation that the bank is looking to leave Switzerland, saying that management is seeking a compromise on the controversial new capital requirement rules. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The fact that UBS is a Swiss bank "is the best possible solution and that's what the …

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Swiss construction firms probed for price fixing

2025-11-20

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2025-11-20

The Swiss Competition Commission (Comco) has opened an investigation into six firms suspected of fixing prices for tenders in the Swiss canton of Jura. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox For several years, these companies were alleged to have colluded in public and private tenders for civil engineering and building work, …

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Swiss workers suffer from emotional exhaustion

2025-11-20

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2025-11-20

Swiss workers are increasingly emotionally exhausted after, finding it difficult to switch off, according to the Working Conditions Barometer from the trade union umbrella organisation Travail.Suisse. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox A barometer is carried out every year by Travail.Suisse and the Bern University of Applied Sciences. For the 2025 …

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Swiss foreign trade sluggish in October

2025-11-20

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2025-11-20

Switzerland's international trade stagnated in October, on both the export and import sides, reflecting the uncertainties weighing on the global economy. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox However, the watchmaking industry rebounded for the first time since July. In the month under review, seasonally adjusted exports stagnated at CHF22.53 billion, representing …

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Novartis extends mid-term growth targets

2025-11-20

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2025-11-20

Novartis is extending its medium-term outlook by one year. Over the period 2025-2030, the Swiss pharma giant aims to achieve annualised, currency-adjusted growth of around 5 to 6%, compared with more than 6% over the period 2024-2029. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Management is aiming to restore the core operating …

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Explainer: Will Swiss supermarkets be inundated with cheap, hormone-filled beef after US tariff deal?

2025-11-20

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2025-11-20

The US has reduced tariffs on Swiss exports from 39% to 15% but has wrangled duty-free access for American meat, fish and chicken in return. Should Swiss consumers be worried? The announcement on August 1 of a 39% tariff on all Swiss imports into the United States sent shockwaves through Switzerland. It came as a …

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Trump and the Epstein files, UBS speculation, and nuclear tests

2025-11-19

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2025-11-19

Welcome to our press review of events in the United States. Every Wednesday we look at how the Swiss media have reported and reacted to three major stories in the US – in politics, finance and science. The big political news in Switzerland this week was the announcement on Friday of a trade deal with … Continue...

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Switzerland misses transalpine freight targets

2025-11-19

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2025-11-19

The shift of transalpine freight traffic from road to rail in Switzerland has stalled in the last two years. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The access routes are slowing down. The Federal Council is therefore lobbying neighbouring countries for rapid modernisation. The modal shift target of 650,000 lorry journeys set …

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How Switzerland lost – and regained – its beer

2025-11-19

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2025-11-19

For decades, the Swiss beer market was dominated by a cartel. Its collapse ushered in a period of upheaval and innovation. Twenty-five years ago, on November 3, 2000, Swiss public television SRF announced news that would change Swiss brewing forever: Danish beer giant Carlsberg had taken over Feldschlösschen, then Switzerland’s largest brewer, for CHF870 million …

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Swiss army knife maker relieved by US tariff cut

2025-11-19

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2025-11-19

The CEO of Swiss army knife maker Victorinox as reacted with relief to the reduction in United States tariffs on Swiss products to 15%. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This creates a more manageable framework for exports, Carl Elsener told the AWP news agency on Wednesday. Thanks to this reduction, …

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Swiss Stadler Rail creates 200 US jobs

2025-11-19

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2025-11-19

Swiss train manufacturer Stadler Rail is expanding its factory in the United States, creating some 200 new jobs in Salt Lake City. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox This brings the company's total US workforce to almost 800, it told AWP on Wednesday. Demand in the US continues to grow, particularly …

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Online investment scams on the rise in Switzerland

2025-11-19

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2025-11-19

The number of online investment scams has risen sharply in Switzerland since the start of the year. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Cyberthieves are impersonating celebrities to gain the trust of their victims, according to a government report. During the first six months of 2025, the number of cyber incidents …

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French court rejects immediate Nestlé Perrier ban

2025-11-19

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2025-11-19

Nestlé may continue to sell Perrier in France as natural mineral water for the time being. A court in Nanterre has rejected a temporary ban on sales requested by consumer protection organisations. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The judgement, which is available to the news agency AWP, rejected all of …

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Timeline: How US President Trump upended the pharma industry in 2025

2025-11-18

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2025-11-18

United States President Donald Trump’s planned tariffs on pharmaceuticals have disrupted the industry. Here’s a timeline of developments affecting this sector since he came into office in January 2025. Traditionally opaque negotiations for drug prices have left Americans paying two to three times more for patented drugs than Europeans do on average. US President Donald …

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US trade deal forces reckoning for Swiss pharma powerhouse

2025-11-18

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2025-11-18

Swiss pharmaceutical companies are planning massive investments in research and manufacturing in the United States as part of a deal to secure lower tariffs. But this isn’t the only force fuelling anxiety about the future of Switzerland’s pharma dominance. The Swiss pharmaceutical sector had reason to celebrate on Friday when the government announced a trade …

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Big Pharma steps up race for AI-discovered drugs

2025-11-18

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Send us a text (https://www.buzzsprout.com/twilio/text_messages/910414/open_sms) What if the most valuable drug candidates aren’t found but designed on demand? We follow a chemist’s journey from a pencil-and-paper notebook to generative algorithms that propose novel, IP-free molecules tailored to specific targets, and we open the door to how Swiss pharma is rebuilding discovery around AI. To read more about this topic...

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