Switzerland’s federal government will pay CHF 50,000 to each seriously injured victim and to the families of those who died in the fire disaster in Crans-Montana. The payment, described as a gesture o ...

The government of the canton of Aargau has rejected calls for a general ban on headscarves in primary schools, arguing that ...

A delegation from Switzerland’s federal parliament travelled to Washington this week for talks with members of Congress and American economic officials, with the prospect of a bilateral trade agreemen ...

Opinion formation varies across the four proposals to be voted on 8 March. It is most advanced for the initiative targeting SRG SSR, where 85% of likely voters say they have made up their minds. More ...

Regulation of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Switzerland is set to return to the ballot box. A popular initiative ...

Member states of the European Union have approved the signing of a package of agreements with Bern, giving their political blessing on Tuesday. The next step, according to the Council, is expected in ...

Redevance (or Medienabgabe in German) is a word much heard since the launch of the “200 francs is enough!” initiative, on which voters will decide on March 8th. The levy is a compulsory annual charge ...

February 2026 MARTY SUPREME ***1/2 How does one describe such a frenetic film? Especially one that concerns a scrawny Jewish kid from Manhattan’s Lower East Side whose whole life is about bec ...

Brendan Fraser, who won the Best Actor Oscar for his powerful performance in 2022 for “The Whale”, plays here an American actor who is trying to make a living in Japan, where he first came to make ...

Internal migration across Switzerland’s linguistic borders sometimes tests local integration. In the canton of Fribourg, growing numbers of French-speakers are settling in German-speaking ...