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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

This week, Switzerland’s government rejected a call to double the price of the motorway vignette, reported RTS. The annual ...

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

Often referred to as the human rights or humanitarian capital of the world, Geneva has for decades managed to revere an ugly truth in the form of an authoritarian, if not murderous, religious abuser.

Most people float down the Aare River in Bern just for fun. For Evelyn Schneider-Reyes, it was her summertime commute home. “I only had like 30 seconds walking from my office to the river,” she ...