Switzerland has slipped to third place in the IMD's annual global competitiveness ranking, and the Lausanne-based business school's president is warning against complacency
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Switzerland is facing a serious doctor shortage, yet universities are still turning away hundreds of medical students each year
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A magnitude-four earthquake has shaken the canton of Glarus, with the tremor felt right across Switzerland
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The race to replace Guy Parmelin in the Federal Council is already dividing Switzerland's largest party
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Swiss President Guy Parmelin has signed a free trade agreement with Vietnam in Hanoi, alongside his EFTA counterparts from Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein
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The notorious queues outside Zurich apartment viewings are finally shrinking
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Switzerland's universities will grow by more than a fifth over the next decade, driven in large part by foreign students, according to new federal projections
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Several Vaud communes are still rationing water weeks into autumn, with sources running dry and reservoirs refusing to refill
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The ceremony marking one year since the Crans-Montana fire will no longer be held on the Haut-Plateau, after families of victims said returning to the site would be too painful
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Swiss Post's digital letter service has signed up nearly 960,000 users since its launch in April, with three million digital letters already delivered
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Haute-Savoie's chamber of chartered surveyors announced yesterday that Mont Blanc now stands at 4,807.47 metres — up 1.88 metres from the last September reading in 2023
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Migros has acknowledged that the Danfoss cooling systems hit by this week's French supermarket cyberattack are used in a handful of its own Swiss branches
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Non-EU travellers crossing Schengen borders are still facing waits of up to five hours a year after the EU's new entry-exit system went live, European airports and airlines warn
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Anyone taking a Swiss driving test from January next year will face a reorganised, digitised process
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Zurich could lose its triple-A credit rating as the city's debt climbs toward CHF 14 billion by 2030
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PostFinance's emergency plan does not yet meet regulatory requirements, the Swiss financial supervisor Finma said yesterday
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The president of Zurich-based FIFA may have pocketed an extra 1.72 million US dollars on top of his official salary, according to The Times
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Health insurers will not be forced to channel their investment gains back into lower premiums, after the Federal Council rejected a parliamentary proposal to make the mechanism mandatory
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The European Court of Human Rights has accepted a case that could end Vaud's practice of pursuing ex-spouses for unpaid taxes — a system that overwhelmingly targets women
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Switzerland's bourgeois parties are asking the Federal Council to tie retirement age to the length of a person's working life, rather than a fixed age for all
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