Currently, Switzerland is negotiating an update to its relationship with the EU. Some fear the new deal will include clauses ...

A study published this week found that nearly 1 in 20 (4.8%) people under 18 in Switzerland received social welfare in 2022, reported RTS. Children made up 33% of the total population on welfare. The ...

Switzerland requires all able bodied men to dedicate around a year of their time to military service. To remove the gender ...

Many expats, particularly north Americans, may be surprised to discover that Halloween is not a big event in Switzerland. But ...

From 2025, the tax free allowance for goods imported into Switzerland will fall from CHF 300 per person to CHF 150, decided ...

One source of vitamin D is sunlight. Sunlight interacts with our skin to produce it. As winter approaches, the amount of ...

ETH Zurich remains the best university in continental Europe, according to the World University Ranking, published by Times Higher Education. ETH Zurich was ranked eleventh worldwide in the 2024 ...

A lost robot, a newly hatched baby goose and a naughty fox make the most wonderful threesome you’ve seen in a long time. This animated film about a robot who is stranded on an island with various ...

Because of the way farming is structured in Switzerland, farmers are heavily reliant on the support of tax payers to make ends meet. The federal government, which is running and projecting fiscal ...

The jet is used by the Federal Council, Switzerland’s cabinet, and made the news in 2021 after forced landings led to missed diplomatic meetings in Anji in China and Tokyo in Japan. This week, the ...

Consuming some mushrooms can be deadly. The risk of fatality is even higher this mushroom season due to a shortage of antidote, warned tox info this week. According to RTS, around 100 people are ...

According to a study by Swissmedic, there are deficiencies in the disinfection, sterilisation, packaging and storage of medical products in Swiss hospitals. Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com The ...