( MENAFN - Swissinfo) The Swiss government is a machine for distributing subsidies to various actors in the country, says finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter. Keller-Sutter was commenting on the ...

Welcome to our selection of the most important – and most colourful – stories from Switzerland over the past seven days.

Switzerland uses the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos as a key platform for trade diplomacy. This year, it took an especially active role.

The Federal Council has approved negotiating mandate for an international treaty between Switzerland and Ukraine to create a ...

The Swiss Army remains in the headlines. Plans to increase the budget to restore defense capabilities are being stalled, while national-conservative forces undermine institutional credibility. In an ...

The Red Cross museum in Geneva is warning that it risks closure after its funding was axed in a broad government cost-cutting ...

The Swiss government is ending its development aid programmes for Zambia, Albania and Bangladesh. This decision comes after the parliament allocated less funding for foreign aid in December than the ...

On 30 January, Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin, vice president of the Federal Council and head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER), welcomed the president of ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Imposing higher capital requirements on UBS as a systemically relevant bank will usher in higher costs for ...

A new ultra-advanced modified Bombardier Global 7500 that was delivered to the Swiss government in December 2024, has been ...

Switzerland initiated a consultation on a proposal to join an agreement that would streamline the exchange of information under the OECD’s global tax deal.

The Swiss government decided on Wednesday to remove the European Union from a list of jurisdictions affected by measures to ...