Spain reach Euro semi-finals with penalties win v Switzerland
Spain reached the Euro 2020 semi-finals on Friday after prevailing 3-1 in a nervy penalty shootout against dogged Switzerland who were reduced to ten men by...
Switzerland
Swiss to launch Covid-19 certificates next week to ease travel
Switzerland will start distributing “COVID-19 certificates” next week to people who have been vaccinated, tested negative or recovered from infection as a way to ease...
Swiss agree to outlaw facial coverings in “burqa ban” vote
A far-right proposal to ban facial coverings in Switzerland won a narrow victory in a binding referendum on Sunday instigated by the same group that organised a...
Swiss to vote on banning face veils in referendum criticised as Islamophobic
“Stop Extremism!” urges a red billboard in a quiet village outside Zurich above an image of a scowling woman wearing a black headscarf and face...
Swiss plough ahead with skiing despite neighbours’ fears
Swiss ski resorts are ploughing ahead with preparations for the year-end holiday season despite pressure from neighbouring Italy, France and Germany to shut until the...
Swiss voters clearly reject curbs on EU immigration
Swiss voters overwhelmingly rejected on Sunday a right-wing party’s attempt to scrap a pact allowing the free movement of people from the European Union, opting...
Guns versus dogs: Swiss decide Sunday on law to ease curbs on wolf shooting
Rival sides are squaring up over a resurgent Swiss wolf population, ahead of a vote on Sunday which could make it easier to shoot the...
Cyprus and Switzerland sign protocol for avoidance of double taxation
Cyprus and Switzerland on Monday signed a protocol for the avoidance of double taxation. The agreement was signed between Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides and the...
Swiss FM will raise EEZ activities with Turkey (Updated)
Foreign Minister, Nicos Christodoulides, said on Tuesday that he asked his Swiss counterpart Ignazio Cassis to convey the message to Turkey that Cyprus was ready...
Swiss reject proposal to put domestic law above international rules
By John Revill Swiss voters have clearly rejected a proposal to give the neutral country’s laws priority over international law, a move that critics claimed...
Era of Swiss bank secrecy ends but Cyprus excluded
By Michael Shields The era of mystery-cloaked numbered Swiss bank accounts has officially come to a close as Switzerland, the world’s biggest centre for...
Two shot dead in Zurich, police see no terror link
Two people died in a shooting in Zurich‘s city centre on Friday that police said did not appear to have any link to terrorism. Police responding...
Swiss campaign to curb immigration from EU gets go-ahead
A Swiss far-right campaign to curb immigration from the European Union, potentially unravelling bilateral ties with the bloc, moved ahead on Tuesday when the government...
More Zurich tax cheats come clean as data sharing looms
Switzerland’s largest and wealthiest canton saw a three-fold rise in the number of tax cheats turning themselves in during 2017, Zurich officials said on Thursday,...
Eight missing in Swiss landslide – police
Rescue crews are seeking eight people from Germany, Austria and Switzerland who have been missing for more than a day after a landslide struck a...
Swiss glacier yields bodies of couple missing 75 years
The frozen bodies of a Swiss couple who went missing 75 years ago in the Alps have been found on a shrinking glacier, Swiss media...
Swiss investigate protest sign calling for Erdogan’s killing
Swiss prosecutors are investigating whether a protest sign calling for the killing of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan violated laws against inciting violence, police said on...
Swiss skirt clash with EU over immigration, Brussels upbeat
The Swiss parliament passed a law on Friday aimed at curbing immigration by giving local people first crack at open jobs, skirting voters’ demand for...
Anastasiades to explain deadlock to Greek Cypriots (updated: adds time)
President Nicos Anastasiades on Wednesday will appear on television to brief Greek Cypriots over the failed talks in Switzerland, the government said. The broadcast will...
Leaders take a recess, talks to resume in Geneva November 20
TALKS on the issue of territory came to a dramatic close late on Friday, as the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot leaders agreed to resume...