Switzerland has vetoed plans to export nearly 100 decommissioned Leopard tanks to Ukraine, citing the country's neutrality laws. The veto could unleash the resentment of the European allies, who for months have been pressuring Bern to loosen its restrictive interpretation of the policy referring to exports in [...]
read moreItaly and Switzerland signed today in Rome a new agreement on the taxation of frontier workers and a Protocol amending the Convention to avoid double taxation. The new agreement will replace the one currently in force, dating back to 1974, will significantly improve the current system of taxation of cross-border commuters and will help maintain good bilateral relations […]
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Railway connections between Italy and Switzerland confirmed: this is the outcome of today's meeting between the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Paola De Micheli, and her counterpart and current president of the Swiss Confederation, Simonetta Sommaruga. During the phone call, there was ample agreement on the need to ensure continuity of passenger transport [...]
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A container with a substance for radiological tests disappeared from a Swiss laboratory in Sion on Tuesday morning. The material, which if used correctly is not dangerous, is enclosed in a blue cylinder for transport, weighing about 15 kilos, about thirty centimeters high. This was announced by the Police [...]
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Cross-border commuters in Switzerland: a worker denied unemployment benefit. Other controversies on the treatment reserved to Italians who work beyond the Alps. But this time the Federal Court decided: the woman benefited from fixed-term contracts and therefore is to be considered unemployed only in Italy Even the Swiss courtrooms [...]
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Western intelligence agencies thwarted a plot involving two Russian hackers who intended to go to a laboratory that investigates nuclear and biological weapons to hack computer systems and steal digital information. According to reports from the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad and the Swiss newspaper Tages-Anzeiger, the two men [...]
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On the sidelines of the opening of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, Ignazio Cassis, Swiss Foreign Minister, told the media that "Switzerland does its part" and is part of those states that are committed to humanitarian aid by supporting "totally "The resolution of the UN Security Council which called for a truce of 30 days [...]
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Ferrero strengthens its position on the conquest of the United States, which seems to have an advantage over the American giant Hershey in the acquisition of Nestlé chocolate bars. The two groups presented their offers and the results should be known by next March, but barring any last-minute surprises, Ferrero should have checked it out [...]
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The right-wing opposition of the Swiss government is firmly opposed to the draft administrative assistance agreement in the customs field with the United States, put into consultation by the Swiss Federal Council from June to last Friday. The government bill aims to improve cooperation with Washington, allowing an exchange of information for [...]
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BERN: Five people injured, this is the first toll made known by the Swiss police regarding an attack carried out by a man who, according to witnesses quoted by the media, armed with a chainsaw sowed terror in a McDonald's fast food restaurant in the Swiss city of SCIAFFUSA. Part of the old city remains barred and [...]
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