Last week, Switzerland’s Federal Council announced it would introduce quotas on long-term residence permits to make immigration “more acceptable to society and compatible with its needs”
After decades of drama, the country has set a new 62-year deadline for families to claim assets stashed in Swiss banks
The country is concerned that certain people shouldn’t get gun permits but it is not about to curtail its very liberal laws about the right to bear arms
The anger over excessive executive pay has finally spilled over to affluent Switzerland, more than a year after igniting the Occupy Wall Street movement in the U.S. The outrage over corporate greed reached a boiling point last …
Tina Turner says she’s turning Swiss because she’s lived in Switzerland for years now. But there are tax benefits for giving up an American passport
The country had one mass shooting in 2001, but a resulting anti-gun referendum failed to pass. The Swiss will not give up the gun. Can their system work in the U.S.?
Why were there traces of toxic polonium in the late Palestinian leader’s effects? A forensic lab hopes to find more clues after gathering samples from an exhumation
The giant Swiss bank surprised the industry and its staff by cutting its staff by a draconian 10,000 jobs
Without the tax break, the rich and famous may choose to leave the country, which has enough money to make do without them, in any case.
The world’s oldest profession is now represented by a labor union in Geneva. It also has much more perks than the rest of Europe—or the world
