World news about “Switzerland” published by euronews.
USA thrash Russia at WorldsThe United States kept themselves on track for a third World Championship title by thrashing old foes and defending champions Russia 8-3 in the quarter-finals… 17/05/2013
Shrinking the pacemaker At the Meditronic Company in Switzerland a new generation of equipment is being produced, from gloves and masks to much more complicated devices such as… 13/05/2013
Crystal clear: behind the LCD screen We are surrounded by screens for much of our daily life; televisions, computers, mobile phones, tablets, the GPS in the car and so on. And around 90 per cent… 07/05/2013
Pope’s Swiss Guards sworn in with colourful flourish Part of a vibrant and popular Vatican tradition, the Pope Francis’ new Swiss Guards have been sworn in. The Guard is made up of 110 men who come to Rome… 06/05/2013
Europa League semi-finals Outgoing European Champions Chelsea host Swiss champions Basel in the second leg of their Europa League semi-final on Thursday. The Londoners – who were… 01/05/2013
Switzerland angers Brussels over immigration quotas Switzerland is to extend immigration restrictions on to all 27 European Union countries. It follows a growing concern about a rise in the number of workers… 25/04/2013
Family outing turns into pure gold for Italian police Italian police have discovered a haul of gold bars hidden in a car on what they say looked like ‘an ordinary family Easter day out.’ Officers started a… 04/04/2013
Swiss sets sights on miniscule atomic clock Clocks and watches – they are our everyday companions, our faithful time keepers. We regulate our lives according to them. But are they totally trustworthy… 02/04/2013
Swiss bank pay to fuel bonus anger The latest bankers’ pay announcements in Switzerland will likely stir more debate and dismay there. Credit Suisse has revealed it upped the renumeration of… 22/03/2013
India: six held over gang-rape of Swiss tourist Six men accused of raping a Swiss tourist in Madhya Pradesh, India appeared in court on March 18 before a local magistrate and were remanded in custody. The… 18/03/2013
Maze ends season on winning note Tine Maze ended her spectacular season in style by winning the last giant slalom of the campaign at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide Switzerland. The… 17/03/2013
Neureuther wins season-ending slalom Felix Neureuther skied through the pain barrier to win the season-ending men’s slalom at the World Cup finals in Lenzerheide, Switzerland. The German – who… 17/03/2013
Indian police report confessions in Swiss gang rape investigation Police in India, investigating the gang rape of a Swiss tourist, say five men have confessed to the attack. The woman, aged around 40, was on holiday with… 17/03/2013
India: police say five confess to Swiss tourist rape Reports from Indian police say five men have confessed to the gang rape of a Swiss tourist who was on holiday there with her husband. Investigators say he… 17/03/2013
Mikaela Shiffrin wins final slalom Rising star Mikaela Shiffrin sealed her place as the world’s number one slalom specialist by winning the season’s final race in the discipline on Saturday… 16/03/2013
Ligety ends giant slalom season on a high America’s Ted Ligety capped his season-long dominance – winning the final men’s giant slalom, his sixth victory of the season. The 28-year-old, clinched… 16/03/2013
Swiss tourist ‘gang-raped’ in India A police investigation has been launched into the gang-rape of a Swiss tourist in India. Seven men were said to have been involved in the attack which took… 16/03/2013
Germany takes team event at the Alpine Skiing World Cup Finals Team Germany claimed victory in the parallel racing national team event at the Alpine skiing World Cup finals at Lenzerheide in Switzerland. The German… 16/03/2013
More data supports Higgs boson discovery Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland have backed up last summer’s announcement of the discovery of a new particle declaring there is now… 15/03/2013
Bad weather continues to disrupt Alpine World Cup finals Adverse weather conditions played havoc with the alpine skiing World Cup finals in Lenzerheide for the second day running. After day one’s downhill events… 14/03/2013
No bonuses in Switzerland, no jobs in Spain The voters of Switzerland have spoken out against multi-million franc executive pay. The Swiss people are happy, but the country’s business establishment… 08/03/2013
Geneva Motor Show: a tale of two markets It is all shiny new cars and beaming smiles at the Geneva Motor Show, but what is the real state of play in the market in Europe and elsewhere? In this… 07/03/2013
Gloom hangs over Geneva car show As the Geneva motor show opened, industry leaders warned that demand for cars in Europe will stay weak for years as governments drive through austerity… 05/03/2013
Glencore’s 2012 profit hit by lower commodities prices Glencore’s net income fell by a quarter last year due to lower prices for commodities, but it made more money from trading so did not suffer as much as some… 05/03/2013
Volkswagen cleans up at Geneva Motor Show The Volkswagen Golf has been named Europe’s car of the year for 2013 at the Geneva Motor Show. The award is one of the most important in Europe and gives… 05/03/2013
Davos dynamism discussed Thousands of eminent guests, including presidents, heads of governments and CEOs have gathered in Switzerland. The founder of the World Economic Forum in… 25/01/2013
Still many risks for the global economy On the third day of the World Economic Forum we look at the different economic outlooks for different parts of the world. While Europe and the US struggle… 25/01/2013
Davos – a new climate for change?One message has come out clearly from Davos and that is the complexity and multitude of the challenges facing the planet. Despite the concern that such… 25/01/2013
Greenpeace activists block petrol pump close to Davos – nocomment Around 25 Greenpeace activists forced a temporary shutdown of a Shell petrol station near the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. Their goal was to protest… 25/01/2013
Making Europe work In this report from Davos, euronews correspondent Isabelle Kumar looks at how some of the world’s richest business people and world leaders are hoping to… 24/01/2013
New technology for old houses Traditional wooden farmhouses like those in Appensell, are iconically Swiss, but every year around 30 of them are demolished because it is so difficult to… 24/01/2013
Session on unemployment dampens the moodAs the name suggests, “The Open Forum” is one Davos event to which all are welcome. No magic World Economic Forum badge required! I attended a very… 24/01/2013
Davos: leaders look to ‘resilient dynamism’ The world’s power elite are gathered at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos focusing on how countries and companies can survive the… 23/01/2013
Mountainous task for uphill strugglers in DavosAs I wander around Davos the song ‘Climb Every Mountain’ has lodged itself firmly in my head. Although it is driving me slowly mad its relevance is certainly… 23/01/2013
Hope starts to re-emerge at the 2013 Davos World Economic ForumThe Davos World Economic Forum is gearing up with, apparently, more world leaders attending than in recent years: there are some 50 heads of state and… 22/01/2013
Davos: five-star talking shop opens for business As the great and the good arrive in the postcard-pretty Swiss mountain resort of Davos for the World Economic Forum, scepticism is rife and many believe such… 21/01/2013
In-form Innerhofer wins Wengen downhill Christophe Innerhofer received a welcome boost ahead of next month’s world championships by winning the classic Wengen Downhill in Switzerland on… 19/01/2013
Super Pinturault wins in Wengen Alexis Pinturault highlighted his emerging talent by winning his second world cup race of the season in a super combined event in Wengen, Switzerland. The… 18/01/2013
Swatch gets hitched to Harry Winston Not many jewellers get namechecked in a hit song, but Harry Winston is one of them. His diamonds were Marilyn Monroe’s Best Friend; now they have seduced… 14/01/2013
Hirscher back on track Austria’s Marcel Hirscher got back to winning ways on Sunday after the overall world cup leader won a slalom at the Swiss resort of Adelboden. After making… 13/01/2013
Ligety wins Adelboden classic World Champion Ted Ligety claimed his fourth victory of the World Cup season on Saturday after winning the classic Adelboden giant slalom in… 12/01/2013
Europe’s highest football pitch At approximately 2 kilometres above sea level, the Ottmar Hitzfeld pitch in Switzerland ranks as the highest in Europe. The stadium itself, which resembles… 07/01/2013
Regulators slacken banking liquidity rule International regulators are allowing banks more room for manouevre over liquidity, after easing off on a proposal that bankers said was too severe. The… 07/01/2013
Swiss scientists bend Caustic Effect to their will At first glance it doesn’t sound very exciting but a sheet of plexiglass is making waves at Lausanne’s Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Switzerland. When a… 07/01/2013
Transocean admits guilt over BP spill Transocean has agreed to pay the equivalent of just over one billion euros to settle US government charges over BP’s massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill in… 04/01/2013
Libor scandal takes a new turn this week Despite the lack of an official statement, it is considered almost certain that UBS will settle an ongoing investigation for manipulation of benchmark lending… 17/12/2012
Lara Gut wins downhill Switzerland’s Lara Gut held her nerve to clinch her maiden World Cup downhill in Val D’isere on Friday. The 21 year old, who was runner up at the 2009… 14/12/2012
Maze wins St Moritz super combined Slovenia’s Tina Maze kept her composure to clinch her third race of the season at a World Cup super-combined in Saint Moritz on Friday. The 29 year old, who… 07/12/2012
In business Running a company requires a variety of skills and abilities which increasing numbers of young business people are learning via management courses. But… 30/11/2012
Ballon d’Or final three Lionel Messi, Cristiano Ronaldo and Andres Iniesta were named in FIFA’s three-man shortlist for the 2012 Ballon d’Or award on Thursday. Argentine… 29/11/2012
German-Swiss tax deal thrown out Germany’s Bundesrat, the country’s upper house has thrown out a deal with Switzerland to tax assets stashed by Germans in Swiss bank accounts. It is seen as… 23/11/2012
Storm at Geneva Shared by Jorge Barbosa. 31/10/2012
UBS slashes jobs, quits fixed income business UBS is firing ten thousand people. Their jobs will go as the boss of the Zurich-based Swiss bank, Sergio Ermotti said it was a hard decision but “necessary… 30/10/2012
UBS blazes lone banking trail UBS has bucked the trend downwards on the European markets, bolstered by rumours it is about to massively restructure. Shares in Switzerland’s largest bank… 29/10/2012
Cost cuts erase Credit Suisse earnings disappointment Credit Suisse’s third quarter results were disappointing, but the second-biggest Swiss bank managed to limit the damage during the trading day on Thursday by… 25/10/2012
French Spiderman strikes again – nocomment Alain Robert – aka the “French Spiderman” – climbed the 49 metre high Bell Tower of the Abbey of Saint-Maurice, Switzerland. He ascended the 1,500 year old… 07/10/2012
Swiss miners finally agree on merger Swiss mining company Xstrata has finally agreed to sell out to its local rival Glencore, digging its heels in for an improved 25.6 billion euro offer. However… 01/10/2012
Swiss growth outlook cut The Swiss government has downgraded its economic outlook for this year and next. The government’s panel of experts cut their growth forecast to 1.0 percent… 18/09/2012
Victory slips through hands at tug of war world championshipsA boy reacts after losing a match in the children category during the Tug of War World Championships in the town of Appenzell, near Zurich in Switzerland… 08/09/2012
Switzerland: Polo – on bikes – nocomment Nearly a week after the end of the prestigious London Olympics, bike enthusiasts from all over the planet met in Geneva to compete in the 4th edition of the… 19/08/2012
Holcim takes concrete steps Holcim has said it will cut costs and raise the prices of its cement and other building materials to meet financial targets. The company – which is the… 15/08/2012
Easing raw material prices to help Nestle Nestle’s reported better-than-expected results for the first six months of the year. The world’s biggest food group also said it expects the price of raw… 09/08/2012
Profits jump forecast from Richemont Richemont’s net profit in the first half of 2012 may beat expectations. Despite the crisis, the luxury goods maker has changed its forecasts. 06/08/2012
Paleo Music Festival hosts the old and the new French rock band “Dionysos” from Valence performed at this year’s music festival Paleo in the Swiss city of Nyon – with founder and frontman Mathias Malzieu… 25/07/2012
Swatch looks to good times ahead Swatch, the world’s largest watch maker, is determined to hit another sales record this year and is confident it will reach its target of eight billion francs… 24/07/2012
Credit Suisse capital boost to placate critics Credit Suisse is to boost its capital reserves to try to restore investor confidence. It will issue convertible bonds, sell assets and cut more costs to… 18/07/2012
Higgs Boson particle a key drop in the universal bucket Here is a necessarily oversimplified stab (using material provided by specialist writers) at rendering in layman’s terms the potential impact of a discovery… 04/07/2012
Montreux Jazz Festival – nocomment Bobby McFerrin and Chick Corea performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. Founded by Claude Nobs in 1967, over the years the festival has become… 03/07/2012
What’s the story mining glory? Is Qatar going to spoil the party two weeks ahead of the proposed merger of the Swiss mining giants Glencore and Xstrata? It wants an improved offer for… 27/06/2012
Qatar wants sweetened Glencore-Xstrata deal Commodities trader Glencore is scrambling to save its twenty one billion euro bid for mining company Xstrata. Xstrata’s second largest shareholder, the… 27/06/2012
Swiss rail line blasted open – nocomment Controlled explosions were carried out at the Gotthard railway in Switzerland after it was blocked by a rock fall. 19/06/2012
Tills start ringing at Switzerland’s Art Basel One of the most important international art fairs – Art Basel in Switzerland – has just opened its doors. It features pieces from nearly 300 leading… 14/06/2012
Swiss National Bank defends the franc The Swiss National Bank reasserted its commitment to holding down the value of the franc ahead of fears the election in Greece could drive another flood of… 14/06/2012
Swiss swimmers in syncTeam Switzerland is seen underwater during the Free Combination finals of the European Diving and Synchronised Swimming Championships in Eindhoven… 28/05/2012
House moving the hard way One of Zurich’s landmarks, a 122-year-old industrial building called the “Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon” has been literally moved, 60 metres down the road, to make… 24/05/2012
Richemont defies the crisis Swiss luxury goods group Richemont saw its shares jump after posting better than expected full-year earnings. The company, with brands including Cartier… 16/05/2012
Huge landslide in southern Switzerland – nocomment Around 300,000 cubic metres of rock fell when a cliff collapsed near Preonzo, southern Switzerland. No casualties were reported. 16/05/2012
Switzerland: caught in the middleA man falls to the ground as he tries to stop a third cow entering the final of the “Battle of the Queens” contest in Aproz, in the western Alpine canton of… 05/05/2012
UBS gets wealthy client boost Refocusing on wealth management seems to have had a positive effect on UBS, the biggest Swiss bank. In the first quarter its core division regained the… 02/05/2012
Baby steps to emerging market growth $11.8 billion is the price Nestle is going to pay for US firm Pfizer’s infant nutrition business . That is about two billion more than the maximum expected by… 23/04/2012
Nestle wins pricey baby food battle Swiss group Nestle is to buy US drugmaker Pfizer’s baby food business. The world’s biggest food company will have to pay more than it had expected – just… 23/04/2012
Nestle warns of difficult 2012 Nestle is warning 2012 will be a tough year due to sluggish growth in developed countries. However the world’s biggest food group said demand in emerging… 20/04/2012
Belgians mourn Swiss bus crash victims – nocomment Some 9,000 people attended a ceremony in Lommel, Belgium to mourn the 17 victims the town lost in last week’s bus crash in Switzerland. 22/03/2012
Belgium: memorial for coach crash victims – nocomment Belgians grieved at city of Leuven after it opened a public memorial for the victims of the Swiss bus crash. 19/03/2012
Belgium mourns children The death of many children and their minders when their coach was returning from a ski holiday in Switzerland has affected Belgians on a national scale… 16/03/2012
Europe Weekly: Belgium and Europe mourns coach crash victims The death of 28 people – 22 of them school children from Belgium – dominates the news this week. They were killed when their coach crashed in a tunnel in… 16/03/2012
Cross country skiers racing over the frozen Lake SilsAn aerial view shows cross country skiers racing over the frozen Lake Sils during the Engadin Ski Marathon near Sils. More than 11,000 skiers participated in… 11/03/2012
Former Greek bank head’s Swiss accounts frozen – reports The Swiss authorities have reportedly frozen three bank accounts of the former head of private Greek bank Proton. Greek businessman Lavrentis Lavrentiadis… 24/02/2012
Sunny and frozen afternoon in SwitzerlandWith a surface area of 9.5 square kilometres (3.33 square miles) the frozen Lac de Joux in Le Pont is the largest natural ice rink in Switzerland. With a… 13/02/2012
Lake Geneva looks nice in the ice – nocomment Ice dominates the landscape around Switzerland’s Lake Geneva in the severe cold snap sweeping across Europe. Geneva is in the path of a northern wind known as… 06/02/2012
Can you dig it? Xstrata Glencore merger talks Mining group Xstrata and commodities trader Glencore have confirmed they are in merger talks. The all-share deal between the two Swiss-based companies would… 02/02/2012
‘Occupy’ protest at World Economic Forum – nocomment About 40 protesters from the “Occupy” movement gathered in front of the town hall in Davos, Switzerland, to protest on the sidelines of the World Economic… 29/01/2012
FEMEN protest in DavosUkrainian protesters from the campaign group FEMEN stage a demo outside the World Economic Forum in Davos. Reuters/Arnd Wiegmann 28/01/2012
Davos: crisis and consequences The shockwave sent out by the eurozone crisis is now hurting emerging economies like Brazil, Russia, and China. These were the very economies that came to… 27/01/2012
Ghosn notes pessimism in the Davos air The car industry is an excellent economic bellweather as its health often a reflection of consumer confidence or economic vigour. So who better to talk to… 27/01/2012
Davos ponders the future of food The eurozone crisis has plunged the world’s economy into the danger zone. Europe’s troubles are hitting the once robust growth of the big BRIC hitters –… 27/01/2012
Ideas as vital as money for the Davos recipe Deals are not only sealed in private meeting rooms. A lucrative agreement can just as easily be made over a mouth-watering canapé at one of the numerous… 27/01/2012
Big freeze fails to deter protesters at Davos Adapt and protest. That is one of the messages emerging from Davos. The snow is not enough to deter the demonstrators who have built, ‘Camp Igloo’ proof, they… 26/01/2012
Eurozone should stay intact says Lamy Some blame part of the Eurozone’s woes on globalization – the interconnectedness of world economies held responsible for the downturn that’s hit so many… 26/01/2012
Eurozone crisis dominates debates at Davos The shrieks and cries, the swish and swirl of winter sports are the normal sounds which echo across the mountains which surround Davos. Now it is the… 26/01/2012
