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The Swiss Federal Assembly elects Karin Keller-Sutter, currently a Federal Councillor, as President for 2025.
2024-12-11

Switzerland's Federal Assembly votes to ban public displays of the Nazi swastika.
2024-04-17

Leaked data from Credit Suisse exposes the identities of over 30,000 of the bank's clients whose anonymous numbered Swiss bank accounts, which collectively held over $100 billion, had allowed them to keep their identities secret. Its clients included heads of state (such as king Abdullah II of Jordan), human rights abusers, drug traffickers, intelligence officials, and individuals under sanctions or involved in financial crimes such as tax evasion or corruption, among others. The secret data from Switzerland's second largest bank was leaked about 1 year ago to the German newspaper "Süddeutsche Zeitung" and was analyzed by the non-profit Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) and 46 other news organizations, including "The New York Times", "Le Monde" and "The Guardian".
2022-02-20

Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis meets with the State Secretary of the Vatican, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, to mark 100 years of the restoration of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Holy See. The joint declaration, according to the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation, called for the promotion of “peace and human rights, the worldwide abolition of the death penalty, the protection of minorities, and interreligious dialogue.”
2021-11-8

Switzerland signs an agreement with Pfizer to supply a total of 14 million doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in 2022 and 2023, which also includes an option to supply an additional 7 million vaccine doses in subsequent years.
2021-08-25

A Portuguese man is stabbed to death during a suspected jihadist attack in Morges, Switzerland. The victim was chosen at random, as the attacker entered a shop and stabbed him. The suspect had been known to the Federal Intelligence Service since 2017 for dissemination of jihadist propaganda and had been arrested in April 2019 following an arson attack.
2020-09-13

Germany closes its borders with France, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Luxembourg.
2020-03-15

Irish firm Smyths Toys agrees to buy 93 Toys R Us stores in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland plus four related online shops.
2018-04-21

A hot Air Balloon carrying an American family crashes killing one person and injures four in the Swiss town of Montbovon.
2013-08-6

Libya detains Irish nationals at its airport in Tripoli due to the escalation of a dispute between it and Switzerland which has led Libya to refuse anyone from the Schengen area, despite Ireland not being a member.
2010-02-16