Firearms play a significant role in homicides in Switzerland. While the use of firearms in homicides has fallen overall in the last three decades, the decline of firearms in domestic homicides has ...

On 26 February 2025, the Federal Council approved the Foreign Policy Report 2024. The report sets out the progress that has been made in achieving the 28 objectives of the Foreign Policy Strategy 2024 ...

Each year, the IC Forum brings together international cooperation actors for two days, providing an opportunity to engage in in-depth dialogue on fundamental challenges and to discuss new approaches ...

Switzerland is taking part in the G20 Finance Track for the tenth consecutive time this year, following an invitation by South Africa. The meeting of finance ministers on 26 and 27 February is the ...

In the 4th quarter 2024, total employment (excluding agriculture) in Switzerland rose by 0.9% compared with the same quarter of the previous year (seasonally adjusted, +0.1% over previous quarter).

Bern, 24.02.2025 - Federal Councillor Guy Parmelin, Head of the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research (EAER), received the Saudi Minister of Economy and Planning Faisal ...

Switzerland returns as a member of the HRC for the term 2025–27. During these three years, the emphasis will be on the traditional priorities of human rights diplomacy, such as freedom of expression, ...

Bern, 21.02.2025 - Ambassador Erwin Bollinger was appointed to a second consecutive term as chair of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Committee on Trade and Environment on 18 February. Ambassador ...

The Producer and Import Price Index rose in January 2025 by 0.1% compared with the previous month to reach 106.4 points (December 2020 = 100). Prices rose in particular for petroleum products, watches ...

Standing at the intersection between mathematics and the tiler's trade is the so-called einstein problem. Despite its name, this mathematical question has nothing to do with the Nobel Prize winner ...

Bern, 12.02.2025 - On 12 February, the Federal Council decided to adopt the measures of the 15th EU sanctions package against Russia. These measures will come into force on 13 February. On 23 December ...

Neuchâtel, 14.02.2025 - The Federal Statistical Office (FSO) is facing a worsening budgetary situation. After barely breaking even in 2024 thanks to major internal cost savings, the FSO will no longer ...