World news about “Switzerland”, including breaking news and archival articles published by euronews.
CERN restarts its “God machine” Europe’s blue ribbon nuclear research project at the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider is back up and running and has… 21/11/2009 - tags: Energy, Switzerland, Research
Debate rages over Swiss minarets … took us to Switzerland, where amongst … this country, Switzerland. Our law and … no place in Switzerland. On top of … 21/11/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Religion
Minaret debate angers Swiss muslims … wall-papered Switzerland with … Muslims in Switzerland and out of an … of Switzerland and accuse … 19/11/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Religion, Controversy
UBS targets profit through transformation UBS has said it is targeting an annual pretax profit of almost 10 billion euros. At a meeting of the loss-making… 17/11/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland
Mamco in monochrome A new exhibition has opened at Mamco, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Geneva. Two Swiss artists are featured, both… 10/11/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Geneva, Exhibition
Striving for a multicultural society The Swiss lakeside canton of Neuchâtel has a long history of accepting people of different cultural backgrounds into… 09/10/2009 - tags: Council of Europe, Immigration, Switzerland
Big bang machine back in actionThe world’s largest atom smasher has been re-started again after more than a year of repairs. The European… 20/11/2009 - tags: Energy, Switzerland, Research
Swiss trial begins for ski guides after deadly avalancheThe trial of two mountain guides charged with involuntary manslaughter for the death of six army recruits has opened in… 17/11/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Justice, Military
Swiss businessmen set for Libyan trial… the charges, Switzerland says it has … supplies to Switzerland and withdrew … 12/11/2009 - tags: Libya, Switzerland, hostage taking
Swiss Muslims open up mosques ahead of minaret vote… in Switzerland have held open … Switzerland is home to … 08/11/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Religion
Switzerland suspends tax deal with Italy… to know that Switzerland will not be … to say Switzerland wants to … towards Switzerland.'' … 02/11/2009 - tags: Banking, Italy, Switzerland
Swiss to tighten controls on assisted suicideThe Swiss government is to change the law on assisted suicide to ensure it is only used as a last resort by the… 29/10/2009 - tags: Health, Switzerland, Society
Swiss summon Italian ambassador over bank raids… ambassador to Switzerland has been … euros in Switzerland. … crossing into Switzerland … 28/10/2009 - tags: Banking, Italy, Switzerland, Politics
Cheesed-off farmers fling boots at Swiss ministerFlinging footwear has again emerged as a popular form of protest. This time the throwers were angry Swiss farmers who… 24/10/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Demonstration
Polanski to fight extradition to US from SwitzerlandRoman Polanski’s lawyers say he will fight the extradition request made by the United States to Switzerland. The… 23/10/2009 - tags: Switzerland, USA, Roman Polanski
US requests Polanski extradition… formally asked Switzerland to extradite … he flew into Switzerland to collect an … 23/10/2009 - tags: Switzerland, USA, Roman Polanski
Nestle to speed up share buybackNestle is to use some of its large cash reserves to buy back shares quicker than originally planned. The world’s… 22/10/2009 - tags: Food, Switzerland
Swiss justify tip-off to US over Polanski visitThe Swiss authorities have admitted they tipped off their US counterparts that director Roman Polanski was travelling… 22/10/2009 - tags: Switzerland, USA, Justice, Roman Polanski
Second Polanski bail appeal rejectedFranco-Polish film director Roman Polanski has had his appeal against a Swiss court’s ruling that he must remain in… 20/10/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Justice, Roman Polanski
Swiss court rejects bail for PolanskiIn Switzerland, the film director Roman Polanski has lost an appeal against being held in custody pending extradition… 20/10/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Justice, Roman Polanski
ABB cuts fine provisions boosting profitSwiss engineering group ABB has said it expects its third-quarter net income to be boosted to around 670 million euros… 19/10/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Industry
Tamiflu boosts Roche’s salesSwiss pharmaceutical company Roche enjoyed an almost 10 percent rise in third-quarter sales thanks to better than… 15/10/2009 - tags: Switzerland, pharmaceutical companies
Anti-foreigner party makes gains in GenevaThe 60,000 French citizens who cross the Franco-Swiss border to work in Geneva are coming to terms with the success of… 12/10/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Politics, Borders
Posters inflame minaret debate in SwitzerlandA poster which critics say incites hatred of Muslims is provoking intense debate in Switzerland. It is part of a… 08/10/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Politics, Scandal
Border wars: France attacks ‘racist’ Swiss ad… France and Switzerland face legal … will flood Switzerland with what it … France and Switzerland are two … 07/10/2009 - tags: France, Switzerland, Politics
Detained Polanski fights extradition to USThe arrested film director Roman Polanski has said he will fight any attempt by the Swiss authorities to extradite him… 29/09/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Justice, Roman Polanski
Furore over Polanski’s arrest over under-age sexProsecutors in Los Angeles have said they will demand the extradition from Switzerland of French movie director Roman… 28/09/2009 - tags: Switzerland, USA, Justice, Roman Polanski
Polanski held on unlawful sex charges… arrest in Switzerland. They are … had arrived in Switzerland on Sunday to … 28/09/2009 - tags: Switzerland, USA, Justice
Polanski arrested over under-aged sex warrant… he arrived in Switzerland on Saturday, … the warrant in Switzerland. … 27/09/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Festival, Justice
Polanski in Swiss custodyFilm director Roman Polanski has been taken into custody, according to organisers of the Zurich Film Festival. They… 27/09/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Justice
Switzerland off the tax haven listSwitzerland is to removed from the OECD’s “grey list” of countries accused of being tax havens, as the alpine nation… 25/09/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Taxes, tax evasion
Swiss milk strike saddensIn non-EU Switzerland, hundreds of angry producers have been refusing to deliver their milk. They are determined to… 22/09/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Agriculture
Medvedev on historic visit to SwitzerlandDmitry Medvedev has arrived in Zurich on an historic, first state visit of a Russian president to Switzerland… 21/09/2009 - tags: Russia, Switzerland, Dmitri Medvedev
Swiss regulator investigates UBSThe Swiss stock exchange regulator is looking into possible breaches of market rules by bank UBS. At issue is… 18/09/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland, UBS
Swiss parliament picks a new face… cabinet but Switzerland's so-called … harmony among Switzerland's regions and … 16/09/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Politics
Utopics stirs the public in BienneSince 1954 the international sculpture exhibition in Biel, Switerland, has been an essential date for public space… 11/09/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Exhibition
Switzerland demands Libya free ‘hostages’… president of Switzerland is coming … oil exports to Switzerland briefly cut. … 05/09/2009 - tags: Libya, Switzerland, Economy
France: “Swiss tax evasion list is no bluff”… Switzerland has long … A deal between Switzerland and France to … 31/08/2009 - tags: France, Switzerland, banking secrecy, tax evasion
Swiss give France suspect bank account detailsJust days after striking a deal with France on banking secrecy Switzerland has handed over thousands of account details… 31/08/2009 - tags: France, Switzerland, Taxes, banking secrecy
France and Switzerland sign tax deal… tax deal with Switzerland to gain … held in Switzerland. … Switzerland is keen to … Switzerland has been told … 28/08/2009 - tags: France, Switzerland, Taxes, Diplomacy, banking secrecy
Swiss Life plans job and cost cuts… Life, Switzerland's largest life … will go in Switzerland by 2012. … 26/08/2009 - tags: Insurances, Switzerland, Unemployment
Swiss row over Libya apologyA row’s blown up in Switzerland over the Swiss President’s apology to Libya. Hans Rudolf Merz flew to Tripoli to say… 24/08/2009 - tags: Libya, Switzerland, Politics, Diplomacy
Switzerland ‘sorry’ for Gaddafi son’s arrest… apology from Switzerland for the arrest … between Switzerland and Libya … supplies to Switzerland, withdrawing … 21/08/2009 - tags: Libya, Switzerland, Diplomacy
Swiss agree to hand over bank details to USSwitzerland will hand over bank account details to US authorities, settling a tax dispute that has threatened Swiss… 20/08/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland, USA, Diplomacy
US and Switzerland settle accounts over UBS… US and Switzerland have struck a … Switzerland hopes it will … between Switzerland and the US. … 19/08/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland, USA
UBS tax deal with US expectedA deal to settle the US tax case against the Swiss bank UBS could be sewn up today. The agreement should help … 19/08/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland, USA, UBS
Swiss make swingeing cuts to militaryThe Swiss government has announced it is to take a knife to its army and slash its numbers by as much as a third over… 16/08/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Army, Military
US rich list feels the chill as UBS surrenders… banks in Switzerland manage around … the US and Switzerland because it … 12/08/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland, USA, UBS
Swiss Cabinet meets to discuss UBSSwitzerland’s seven member Cabinet has been meeting in special session to review the case of the global Swiss bank … 10/08/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland, UBS
Switzerland ‘tarnished’ by tax evasion claims… "The image of Switzerland has changed a … the role of Switzerland concerning tax … Union Bank of Switzerland still faces … 09/08/2009 - tag: Switzerland
Hoops on Swiss villageSwiss artist Felice Varini has turned his attention to the tiny Swiss village of Vercorin with the creation of a very… 27/07/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Modern Art
Paleo FestivalThe Paleo Festival went off “without a false note” say organisers. More than 30 acts performed at the festival, which… 27/07/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Music, Festival
Paléo festival seals its place among Europe’s biggestThirty four years after its humble debut as a folk concert, the Paléo in the Swiss town of Nyon has become the second… 24/07/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Music, Festival
Credit Suisse posts upbeat resultsStrong investment banking earning helped Credit Suisse produce better than expected profit in the second-quarter… 23/07/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland
Swiss exports roll furtherSwiss exports slumped by nearly a quarter in June. Year-on-year they were down by 23.5 percent when adjusted for… 21/07/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Trade
Novartis raises sales forecastEncouraging news from drugmaker Novartis which has raised its forecast for sales this year, betting on income from… 16/07/2009 - tags: Switzerland, pharmaceutical companies
Montreux Jazz Festival Tribute to Nina SimoneTributes were paid to Nina Simone at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Simone was one of the world’s most… 15/07/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Festival, Jazz
Montebello Festival held in Switzerland.The Chateau Montebello de Bellinzona in southern Switzerland played host to a chamber music festival with a difference… 13/07/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Music, Festival
US and Swiss bank giant UBS seek to delay tax trial… that could see Switzerland's centuries … Switzerland has vowed to … 13/07/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland, Taxes
Swiss hostage freed in SaharaA Swiss man kidnapped by al Qaeda’s North African wing has been freed. Werner Greiner was captured in the Sahara in… 12/07/2009 - tags: Mali, Switzerland, hostage
Montreaux Jazz Festival opensThe Montreux Jazz Festival has just opened in Switzerland. The glamourous location on the shore of Lake Geneva is… 07/07/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Music, Festival
Horrid fantasy in NeuchatelThe Neufchatel International Fantastic Film Festival took place in Switzerland from 30th June to 5th July. The… 07/07/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Movies, Festival
US plans to pursue UBS account holdersThe US Justice Department is pressing ahead with plans to force the Swiss bank UBS – the world’s largest manager of… 01/07/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland
UBS “offered compensation” in tax dealWith two weeks to go before they meet in court, the Swiss banking giant UBS is locked in negotiations with the … 01/07/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland, USA
Holcim acquires Cemex’s Aussie divisionSwiss cement maker Holcim is buying the Australian business of its debt-laden Mexican rival Cemex. It will pay… 15/06/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Industry
Martha Argerich Project brings talent to LuganoLaunched in 2002 under the patronage of charismatic Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich, the Project which bears the… 15/06/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Music
AH1N1: anti-flu vaccine could be ready by autumnOne of the world’s leading drug firms says it has managed to produce the vaccine for Influenza A weeks ahead of… 12/06/2009 - tag: Switzerland
‘Crime of Passion’ defence in banker murderA French woman alleged to have murdered her wealthy French banker lover has pleaded guilty, saying it was a crime of… 10/06/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Justice, Crime
Swiss jobless trend is upThe number of people out of work in Switzerland inched down in May but the trend still points to higher unemployment… 08/06/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Unemployment
Export woes hurt Swiss economySwitzerland’s economy shrank at a pace not seen for 15 years in the first quarter of this year. Swiss GDP fell 0.8… 02/06/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Economy
Zumthor wins Pritzer PrizeSwiss architect Peter Zumthor has been awarded the 2009 Pritzker Prize for Architecture in Buenos Aires. The award… 02/06/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Architecture
Swiss government rejects limit on EU workers… are already in Switzerland. If we … groups in Switzerland, with many … 3.5 per cent, Switzerland is in much … 13/05/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Unemployment
Is Switzerland about to shut the door on EU workers?… entering Switzerland's job-market. … up jobs in Switzerland, however … groups in Switzerland, with many … 13/05/2009 - tags: European Union, Switzerland
Flu fears trap Swiss councillorsCouncillors in a small Swiss town have been quarantined after one of their collegues was found to have travelled on the… 03/05/2009 - tag: Switzerland
Nyon festival rewards documentary talentThere was suspense at the closing ceremony of the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival in Switzerland. Entitled… 01/05/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Festival
Basle presents a portrait of Van Gogh’s landscapesSeventy landscape paintings by the tortured artistic genius Vincent Van Gogh have recently gone on show at the… 01/05/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Exhibition, van Gogh
Swiss village votes to ban naked hikersIt may be the ultimate freedom to some, but to others it is just bare-faced cheek. And that is exactly how the… 27/04/2009 - tag: Switzerland
UBS deep in the red cuts more jobsRed flags and red ink were the backdrop to the annual shareholders’ meeting at UBS, Switzerland’s biggest and most… 15/04/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland, USA
UBS announces large job cutsSwitzerland’s biggest bank UBS has said it is to axe almost 9000 staff worldwide in an effort to claw back mounting… 15/04/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland, USA
Nollywood comes to SwitzerlandTrapped Dream is a thriller from Nigeria – a so-called Nollywood film – about Chike and his ill-fated attempt to get to… 27/03/2009 - tags: Nigeria, Switzerland
Roche finally bags GenentechSwiss drugmaker Roche has said it is on track to control just over 96 percent of Genentech. That ends a long… 26/03/2009 - tag: Switzerland
Switzerland hits back over tax haven claims… angry, to see Switzerland's name on the … criticism of Switzerland by other … 19/03/2009 - tag: Switzerland
Switzerland summons German ambassador over bank secrecy… suggested Switzerland and Austria … including Switzerland, Austria and … Switzerland in particular … 17/03/2009 - tag: Switzerland
Tax havens loosen bank secrecy rules… Switzerland said it had no … Switzerland, Austria and … Like Switzerland Austria says … 13/03/2009 - tags: Luxembourg, Switzerland
Tax haven centres fall into lineBig tax haven centres, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg, are the latest countries to agree to concessions on bank… 13/03/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Financial Crisis
Genentech accepts Roche offerSwiss drugmaker Roche has reached a deal with Genentech to acquire all of the shares in the US biotech group that it… 12/03/2009 - tags: Switzerland, pharmaceutical companies
Judges resign over Swiss porn inquiryTwo judges have resigned from their posts in the Swiss canton of Jura, in the wake of a scandal over the use of office… 12/03/2009 - tag: Switzerland
Tax haven bankers vow to keep their secrets… agenda, but Switzerland, Luxembourg … pushed for Switzerland to be added to … 09/03/2009 - tags: Switzerland, G20
Europe’s “secret 3” meet to hatch strategy… Switzerland is behind the … Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria and … 08/03/2009 - tags: Luxembourg, Switzerland
Swiss inflation risesInflation in Switzerland unexpectedly rose in February. Although energy bills declined food and rents cost more… 06/03/2009 - tags: Inflation, Switzerland
Models galore, but where are the buyers?Little sign of the crisis on the stands at the Geneva motorshow with hundreds of new models jostling for the buyer’s… 04/03/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Geneva
Villiger takes over at UBS… country, Switzerland, to the … set whereby Switzerland's other banks … 04/03/2009 - tag: Switzerland
Switzerland in recessionSwitzerland is the latest European country to enter recession. Its economy shrank at the end of last year as… 03/03/2009 - tag: Switzerland
UBS shares plunge amid US probe into tax cheats… in UBS - Switzerland's biggest bank … on the part of Switzerland: "It's a … 20/02/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland
UBS refuses to give up tax cheat suspects… Switzerland's financial … transform Switzerland into one of … 20/02/2009 - tags: Banking, Switzerland
Swiss say ‘Yes’ to extending worker access… workers into Switzerland and extends it … really the Switzerland we love and … "Yes" that's Switzerland is saying to … 09/02/2009 - tag: Switzerland
Polls close in Swiss free labour market voteVoting in Switzerland on a referendum to allow more EU citizens into its labour market has ended. The Swiss… 08/02/2009 - tag: Switzerland
Swiss vote whether to allow more immigration… into Switzerland where tens of … at a map of Switzerland has been used … per cent of Switzerland s residents … 08/02/2009 - tags: European Union, Immigration, Switzerland
