Sources: Xinhua
In response to yesterday's leak of client data from Credit Suisse, Switzerland's second largest bank, the EU's European Commission is asked to "re-evaluate Switzerland as a high-risk money-laundering country" by the European People's Party, which is the group with the largest number of seats in the European Parliament. 2022-02-21
Switzerland reports its first case of the Brazilian P.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2. 2021-02-9
Various billionaires, world leaders, and investors gather in Davos, Switzerland to discuss economic issues. 2018-01-23
A small Swiss-owned plane crashes in the Portuguese village of Tires, west of Lisbon, killing at least five people. 2017-04-17
World leaders are meeting in Davos, Switzerland, for the World Economic Forum. 2014-01-20
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, British Prime Minister David Cameron, whose economy would be severely affected, denounces the Tobin tax under consideration in the European Union. 2012-01-27
Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi addresses the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. 2011-01-29
A small explosion occurs in the basement of a hotel in Davos, Switzerland, close to where the World Economic Forum is taking place. No one is injured and a boiler is blamed. 2011-01-27
Reform of the banking system was one of the key themes at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos. European Parliament Vice-President Silvana Koch-Mehrin said "There was general disapproval of the disproportionate self-rewarding in the banking sector". 2010-02-8