Switzerland will not be participating in the European Copernicus programme to monitor climate change from 2021 to 2027. The reason for this is the strained state of federal finances, according to the government. Parliament had voted in favour of participation in the satellite programme. Participation would put a further strain on the already tight federal...

Rejected asylum-seekers and young undocumented migrants in Switzerland will have easier access to basic vocational training from June 1. From this date, they will only need to have attended compulsory schooling in Switzerland for two years to be able to submit a hardship application for admission. The government is also extending the deadline for submitting...

Russian star soprano Anna Netrebko will not be performing in Lucerne. The concert on June 1 at the KKL Culture and Congress Centre has been cancelled owing to pressure from the Lucerne government. “The KKL Lucerne is not available for Anna Netrebko’s concert on June 1, 2024,” the Luzerner Zeitung reported on Wednesday. The public perception of the soloist...

Family members of people temporarily admitted to Switzerland should in future be able to join them after two years instead of three. The proposed amendment to the law is the government’s response to a judgement by the European Court of Human Rights. In 2021 the Strasbourg court concluded that the automatic application of a waiting period of more than...

2023 was a record year for the Rhaetian Railway in several respects. Never before has the narrow-gauge railway in Graubünden, eastern Switzerland, transported so many passengers and cars. The previous record figures from 2019, the last year before the Covid pandemic, were in some cases significantly exceeded, the Rhaetian Railway said at the presentation...

A new four-legged robot with artificial intelligence can seamlessly change its gait. With the aim of avoiding falls, the robot from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) switches between walking, trotting and jumping depending on the situation. The robot was developed to investigate why animals switch between different gaits, EPFL...