World news about “Switzerland”, including breaking news and archival articles published by euronews.
Swiss Muslims open up mosques ahead of minaret vote … in Switzerland have held open … Switzerland is home to … 08/11/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Religion
Nestle to speed up share buyback Nestle 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
ABB cuts fine provisions boosting profit Swiss 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 sales Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche enjoyed an almost 10 percent rise in third-quarter sales thanks to better than… 15/10/2009 - tags: Switzerland, pharmaceutical companies
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
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
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
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
Swiss to vote on foreign workers… and work in Switzerland without a … take a job in Switzerland and … to invade Switzerland. That's not … 07/02/2009 - tags: Switzerland, Elections
World Economic Forum ends amid gloomLife is getting back to normal in the Swiss ski resort of Davos now that the world’s movers and shakers have packed up… 01/02/2009 - tag: Switzerland
Davos ends with calls for global trade dealThe world economic forum in Davos wound up having produced a consensus on the need to achieve a new global trade deal… 01/02/2009 - tag: Switzerland
Protesters voice anger at Davos forumHundreds of protesters have marched in Davos to give the thumbs-down to leaders at the World Economic Forum… 31/01/2009 - tag: Switzerland
Swiss risking Schengen loss… Switzerland has a … a chance for Switzerland, and not a … The EU is Switzerland's main … 15/12/2008 - tag: Switzerland
Schengen accords take effect in Switzerland… be the norm in Switzerland. The Alpine … and now Switzerland. However, this … work freely in Switzerland, like other EU … 12/12/2008 - tags: Border Controls, Switzerland
Schengen member Switzerland opens up borders… patrol in Switzerland is still hard … is all because Switzerland, while not … 12/12/2008 - tags: Border Controls, Switzerland
Swiss scrap routine passport checks at land borders… entering Switzerland by land. … Switzerland may be in the … travellers to Switzerland with passports … 12/12/2008 - tag: Switzerland
