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SWI swissinfo.ch

Our partner organisation SWI swissinfo.ch reports daily from Switzerland on the topics of politics, the economy, culture, society, science and direct democracy.

The platform provides information in ten languages, and offers top multimedia stories and analysis in German, French, Italian and English, as well as in Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Japanese and Russian.

SWI swissinfo.ch is a public-law news information platform of SRG SSR which was created from the former Swiss Radio International. It offers independent information from the fields of politics, the economy, culture, science and education as well as on direct democracy. Its target audience includes foreigners who are interested in Switzerland as well as Swiss abroad.

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SWI swissinfo.ch - a branch of Swiss Broadcasting Corporation SRG SSR Swiss perspectives in 10 languages

Cheap rubbish instead of good quality

18. December 2024 - Online providers are pretending to be Swiss companies, luring customers into a trap with false promises. is receiving a growing number of complaints…

How a Swiss musician is lending a hand to people in Ukraine

18. December 2024 - Musician Bänz Margot has lived in Ukraine for roughly ten years. He first travelled there shortly after the Maidan Uprising in 2014. But following the…

Ariane Rustichelli: ‘The interests of the Swiss Abroad got more attention before the pandemic’

17. December 2024 - After almost 17 years with the Organisation of the Swiss Abroad (OSA/SwissCommunity), ten of which as director, Ariane Rustichelli announced last week…

Switzerland, the promised land of coats of arms

14. December 2024 - Most Swiss families have a coat of arms. This may come as a surprise abroad, where heraldry is often the preserve of nobility. However, this…

Cute but invasive: raccoons spotted in northwestern Switzerland

12. December 2024 - Originally introduced to Europe by breeders from North America, raccoons have made their way into Switzerland via Germany. While they may look…

Against all odds: Switzerland’s first female federal judge

11. December 2024 - Fifty years ago, Margrith Bigler-Eggenberger became the first woman to serve as a judge on Switzerland's highest court. But her election by the Swiss…

Swiss florists face pesticide risks at work

10. December 2024 - The story of a French ex-florist, whose 11-year-old daughter died of cancer in 2022 linked to her mother’s exposure to pesticides, has highlighted the…

How Swiss festive bad boy Schmutzli cleaned up his act

07. December 2024 - Once upon a time, a mysterious dark-faced figure would enter Swiss homes at the beginning of December, beating and (briefly) abducting children into…

Balancing the budget by selling plastic ibex

06. December 2024 - The canton of Graubünden turned heads at the national exhibition in 2002 with 209 plastic ibex colourfully painted by children. The striking creatures…

SWI swissinfo.ch – a branch of Swiss Broadcasting Corporation SRG SSR

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