by Julie Zaugg in London, swissinfo.ch Faced with massive youth unemployment, Britain is the latest country to take an interest in the Swiss apprenticeship system. The “dual” model which combines […]
The number of foreigners being granted Swiss citizenship is likely to fall by nine per cent a year if government-backed amendments to the naturalisation law are accepted, according to a […]
Nine per cent of the Swiss population practises alternative spirituality, according to a national study on religion. swissinfo.ch journalist Susan Vogel-Misicka sat in on a Bern workshop about reading tarot cards. Please click on for an audio report
by Clare O’Dea, swissinfo.ch Religion is becoming less important in people’s private lives in Switzerland, even among tax-paying members of the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches, two-thirds of whom are […]
by Patricia Islas Züttel, swissinfo.ch Sara* wandered around Zurich airport transit area for two hours looking for the restaurant to hand over her goods. “I got lost. That’s when I […]
Switzerland has dispatched a four-member assessment team to Iran in the wake of two powerful earthquakes which shook the northwestern province of East Azarbaijan last Saturday. According to a statement […]
by Matt Allen, swissinfo.ch Universally loved and recession proof, chocolate continues to be a sweet prospect for both manufacturers and consumers. But while sales growth is expected to continue on […]
by Sophie Douez, swissinfo.ch It might seem strange for a landlocked country to have a merchant navy, but the 41 commercial ships sailing under the Swiss flag represent a vital […]
In the past two years, around 1,400 young women in Switzerland have been forced to marry, end a relationship or have been told not to seek a divorce, according to a study by Neuchâtel University for the Federal Migration Office. Justice Minister Simonetta Sommaruga presented the results of the study […]
Zurich University Children’s Hospital says it is resuming the practice of circumcising boys. The hospital introduced a five-week moratorium at the beginning of July following a controversial ruling by a German court. The German decision, which does not apply to Switzerland, prompted debate in several other Swiss hospitals and among […]
Swissinfo.ch and agencies The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said it will stay in Libya, despite suspending its work in the port of Misrata and in the […]
Swiss footballer Michel Morganella has been expelled from the London Olympics for posting a racist message on social networking website Twitter. Swiss Olympic team chief Gian Gilli said Morganella was […]
by Clare O’Dea on the Jungfraujoch, swissinfo.ch Not many records are still in place 100 years on but the Jungfraujoch railway station on the shoulder of the Jungfrau mountain in […]
Switzerland has pledged to assist Lebanon in housing refugees who have fled from neighbouring crisis-torn Syria. Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter met with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees […]
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch and agencies The number of requests for Swiss citizenship has dropped for the third consecutive year, which the Federal Migration Office says is the result of […]
by Ariane Gigon in Zurich, swissinfo.ch For many deceased, the cemetery is no longer their “final resting place”. Scattering ashes out in the open, burying the urn in a forest […]
by Sophie Douez, swissinfo.ch Moves by two Swiss hospitals to suspend the practice of circumcising boys in the wake of an adverse court ruling about the procedure in Germany have sparked heated debate amongst legal experts in Switzerland. The children’s hospitals of Zurich and St Gallen announced they had suspended […]
by Ariane Gigon, swissinfo.ch More Swiss cemeteries are setting aside special Muslim plots, but controversially these remain largely empty, with older Muslims preferring to be buried in the land of […]
Two Swiss travellers that were held hostage by the Taliban in Pakistan for eight months will not be asked to pick up the tab for their repatriation back home – […]
by Gaby Ochsenbein in Neuchâtel, swissinfo.ch Of the roughly eight million people living in Switzerland, 1.8 million are foreigners, largely excluded from the political process. Immigration expert Gianni d’Amato tells […]