Most Swiss are not keen on blanket 30km/h limits in urban areas. A new poll by YouGov, commissioned by the Touring Club Switzerland (TCS), finds that nearly two-thirds of respondents oppose extending ...

Swiss households on average will pay a little less for electricity next year—but the relief will be uneven. Average tariffs ...

This week, Switzerland’s lower house has narrowly backed a temporary VAT rise to finance the country’s new 13th month of state pension, reported SRF. Wage contributions are off the table and the Natio ...

Switzerland’s government wants to make it simpler for step-parents to adopt. Under a draft law approved by the Federal Council, couples who have raised a child together since birth would no longer nee ...

Finding a home in Switzerland is getting harder. For the fifth year in a row the share of vacant flats has fallen, slipping to 1%. In other words, 99% of the country’s housing stock is now occupied. T ...

Switzerland’s Council of States has rejected a popular initiative on subsidised childcare but endorsed a watered-down ...

A long-term Brazilian study has cast fresh doubt on the wisdom of swapping sugar for artificial sweeteners. Tracking more than 12,700 adults for eight years in a longitudinal study, researchers divide ...

Fewer Swiss now say they are in good health. Only one in ten describe themselves as feeling very healthy, down from one in five when the insurer CSS began surveying well being in 2020. The decline is ...

Zurich is the latest German-speaking Swiss canton to question Switzerland’s policy of teaching French from the first years of ...

Guy Parmelin, Switzerland’s economics minister, has travelled to Washington to present a revised proposal aimed at ending a ...

Switzerland has shelved plans for a national study on the health effects of chemical pollutants, reported RTS. The scheme, ...

Switzerland’s federal housing office (FHO) has cut the reference mortgage rate used to set rents, giving many tenants grounds to demand lower payments. From 2 September 2025 the rate falls by a quarte ...