Sources: Financial Times
Voters in Switzerland accept the referendum to increase monthly pensions but reject the referendum to increase the retirement age. 2024-03-3
The Philippines bans entry to flights from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Additionally, the entry of fully vaccinated foreign nationals from green-list countries that was expected to begin on December 1 is temporarily suspended. 2021-11-28
The city of Geneva, Switzerland, sets its minimum wage to CHF23 (US$25) per hour per the results of a September referendum, becoming the highest in the world. 2020-11-1
A bus travelling from Germany to Italy crashes in southern Switzerland, leaving one dead and 14 injured. 2018-10-14
Winter storm Eleanor moves from the British Isles to continental Europe with one dead in France as well as injuries and material losses in Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland. 2018-01-3
More than a dozen alleged ISIS-linked, terrorist members of Rawti Shax, a European offshoot of the Iraqi Kurdish jihadist network Ansar al-Islam, are arrested in a coordinated, multi-nation sweep by police across Europe. The operation dismantled an integrated cell in Italy, the United Kingdom, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, and Germany. The group is accused of radicalizing fighters, planning attacks targeting Norwegian and British diplomats in the Middle East, and planning to establish a caliphate in Iraq's Kurdistan region. 2015-11-12
A hot Air Balloon carrying an American family crashes killing one person and injures four in the Swiss town of Montbovon. 2013-08-6
One person is killed and 42 injured after a Swiss tourist train derails in the Alps. 2010-07-23