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Swiss government to take control of military tech firm RUAG MRO

2025-11-26

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2025-11-26

The Swiss government decided on Wednesday to take control of the Swiss military technology firm RUAG MRO. The company will be made into a public limited company governed by a special law. Consultation on the change is open until March 23. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The government will …

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Beer sales decline again in Switzerland

2025-11-26

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2025-11-26

The downturn in the Swiss beer market continues. In the last brewing year 2024/25 (as of end September), beer sales including non-alcoholic beers shrank by 1.8% to 4.72 million hectolitres. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The boom in craft beers is declining. On the other hand, demand for traditional …

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UBS survey: Swiss economic outlook brightens after US trade deal

2025-11-26

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2025-11-26

The Swiss trade deal with the United States is said to have improved the outlook for the Swiss economy. Financial analysts surveyed by Swiss bank UBS are once again much more optimistic about the prospects for the Swiss economy. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The CFA indicator, which is …

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Local Aargau government calls to preserve pharma jobs after Novartis cuts

2025-11-26

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2025-11-26

The local government of the Swiss canton Aargau has expressed regret at the decision by Swiss pharma giant Novartis to cancel 550 jobs in the canton. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "A job reduction of this magnitude hits the canton and Fricktal (region in Aargau) hard as a location …

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Cheap flight tickets are no longer realistic, says SWISS CEO

2025-11-26

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2025-11-26

According to an interview with Swiss International Airlines (SWISS) CEO Jens Fehlinger, flight tickets of CHF100 ($124) are no longer realistic in the future. Sustainable fuel is more expensive than conventional fuel and more of it will have to be refuelled in future. + Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "This …

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Swiss researchers develop new drug to better combat iron deficiency

2025-11-24

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2025-11-24

Iron deficiency is a common problem, but iron supplements are often poorly absorbed. A product developed by the Swiss federal technology institute ETH Zurich hopes to offer a solution. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Constant tiredness, headaches and a weakened immune system: worldwide, around two billion people suffer from iron …

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Q3: Swiss firms report fewer job vacancies

2025-11-24

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2025-11-24

The total volume of employment in Switzerland remained stable in the third quarter, edging up by 0.1% year-on-year. By contrast, the number of vacancies advertised by companies fell by one-tenth, the Federal Statistical Office (FSO) reported on Monday. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Federal experts counted a total of 5.53 …

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Swiss business associations call for less red tape

2025-11-24

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2025-11-24

Swiss companies could save CHF30 billion ($37 billion) a year by reducing bureaucracy, according to leading business associations. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox Excessive regulations and high costs for bureaucracy are a burden on businesses and inhibit growth, declared economiesuisse, the Swiss Union of Arts and Crafts, the Swiss Employers' …

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Swiss researchers create world’s tiniest light-emitting diodes

2025-11-24

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2025-11-24

Researchers at the federal technology institute ETH Zurich have produced what they claim to be the world's smallest light-emitting diodes. The tiny diodes will enable ultra-sharp screens and microscopes, but also opens up entirely novel possibilities for wave optics applications. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The researchers have developed extremely …

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Thousands go onion-crazy in Swiss capital

2025-11-24

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2025-11-24

Bern’s traditional annual onion market, known as the Zibelemärit in Swiss German, got off to a busy start in the early hours of Monday morning despite bad weather conditions. Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the festival in the Swiss capital. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox The …

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The remarkable tale of a Swiss village in Rhode Island 

2025-11-23

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2025-11-23

There is an unusual farmstead in the US state of Rhode Island that would not look out of place in Italian-speaking Switzerland. The story of the 'Swiss village' in Newport is a surreal journey that spans architectural splendour, philanthropy and genetic research. During the so-called Gilded Age in the United States in the late 19th …

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COP 30: Switzerland reinvigorates its climate offsetting plan

2025-11-22

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2025-11-22

As negotiations at the United Nations climate conference in Belém drew to a close, Switzerland announced the creation of an alliance of countries supporting a carbon offset scheme it pioneered. On Friday, Switzerland’s environment ministry disclosed the launch of the Article 6 Ambition Alliance, a group of 10 nations working together under the Paris agreement …

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Lower US tariffs likely in December: Swiss minister

2025-11-22

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2025-11-22

Swiss economics minister Guy Parmelin hopes to see reduced United States tariffs from the beginning of December. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "In Switzerland, we are ready", Parmelin told Swiss public broadcaster SRF. In the US, it will take a little more time. A week ago, Switzerland and the US …

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How a global plan to preserve forests launched a carbon offset debate

2025-11-22

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2025-11-22

Efforts to preserve rainforests were high on the agenda at the latest United Nations climate conference, held at the edge of the Amazon. The journey of a UN-backed scheme to prevent deforestation through carbon payments and offsets exposes the challenges of influencing climate-related practices from afar. In 2013, two years ahead of the historic Paris …

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Swiss regulator warns of mortgage market risk

2025-11-22

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2025-11-22

The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (Finma) fears that financial centre risk is becoming increasingly tense. Developments in the mortgage market are particularly worrying. +Get the most important news from Switzerland in your inbox "Prices have continued to rise and the risk of a correction is correspondingly high," warned Finma director Stefan Walter in an …

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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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