An initiative to ban convicted paedophiles from working with children for life has been approved by Swiss voters. The ballot on Sunday ends a bitter and divisive debate wherein both sides claimed their position delivered better protection for children. (Photo: Keystone) ...
Voters in Switzerland have rejected plans for a nationwide minimum wage. At CHF22 ($25) an hour, the limit would have been the highest in the world. (Photo: Keystone) ...
Various recent people’s initiatives in Switzerland have raised doubts about their applicability. The latest concerns paedophilia. At stake is not only respect for the state of law, but also citizens’ faith in institutions. (Photo: akg-images.de) ...
Christoph Blocher, vice-president of Switzerland's largest party the SVP, said Credit Suisse chief should step down Credit Suisse chief executive Brady Dougan came under further pressure to resign on Sunday, with a key figure in Switzerland's largest party becoming the latest politician to call for a change in the bank's leadership over its role in helping rich Americans dodge tax . Switzerland's...
Swiss voters are to decide in a referendum on Sunday whether to bring in the world's highest minimum wage, offering each and every worker at least $25 an hour....
Sixty years ago, more than 100,000 people gathered in Bern to celebrate the arrival of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I. Through a grand state visit, the Swiss government wanted to make up for the fact that they had failed to shelter him during the 1936 Abyssinian war against Mussolini’s troops. (Photo: Peter Studer) ...
A sponsorship deal between the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne and the food multinational Nestlé is coming under further pressure. The regulatory authorities will discuss the case shortly, but parliament refuses to legislate on the matter. (Photo: Keystone) ...
Earning at least CHF22 ($25) an hour is likely to remain a trade union dream in Switzerland, with voters on Sunday expected to reject plans to introduce a nationwide minimum wage. (Photo: Keystone) ...
Fears proposed £14.70 an hour will particularly hit manufacturing sector, which accounts for more than 20% of Switzerland's GDP Switzerland will put a proposal for the world's highest minimum wage to a national referendum on Sunday. The proposal is for a 22 Swiss francs (£14.70) an hour and if voted through it would put a salary floor under the average 35-hour week of more than £27,000....
Former head of the International Monetary Fund Dominique Strauss-Kahn is refashioning his career as a financial guru, heading an investment company that is based in Luxembourg but also active in Geneva....
Sepp Blatter, president of Zurich-based FIFA, on Thursday said it was a mistake to choose Qatar in the Middle East to host the 2022 World Cup football competition because of the country's searing summertime climate....
Farmers are upset about a young brown bear that killed at least nine sheep in Switzerland in the past week after wandering into the canton of Graubünden from Italy....
FC Basel supporters are celebrating having Switzerland's most successful football team ever. ...
Geneva-based luxury giant Richemont on Thursday said its net profit rose by three percent in 2013-2014 over the previous financial year on higher sales, despite the impact of exchange rates....
Guatemala's former police chief Erwin Sperisen went on trial on Thursday in Switzerland on charges of having planned and taken part in the murder of 10 prisoners in the Central American country....
Zurich Insurance says net profit rose in the first quarter of 2014 from the same period a year earlier, thanks to returns on its investments but it is continuing with a plan to cut hundreds of jobs in Switzerland and elsewhere....
During the height of the Euro crisis, Greeks were rapped for being lazy as their country buckled beneath economic woes, but figures from the OECD show they work longer hours than the Swiss — and workers in all other European countries....
The US Justice Department is seeking tough criminal penalties against European giants Credit Suisse — which now reportedly faces a fine as high as $2 billion — and BNP Paribas as prosecutors aim to demonstrate that no institution is "too big to jail."...
A spectacular blue diamond, the largest in its category, fetched $23.79 million (21.4 million francs) at a Christie's auction in Geneva on Wednesday....
Surrounded by luxury at the high-end Geneva hotels where she works, Alcina Esteves de Almeida sometimes goes hungry — her salary, while generous by American standards, is not enough to make ends meet in pricey Switzerland....