From 22 June 2019, Swiss will add five new destinations from Geneva. Brindisi in Puglia, the Portuguese city of Faro, the Greek island of Mykonos, and Alicante and Ibiza in Spain will all be served directly from Geneva. This will bring the airline’s total direct destinations from Geneva to 42. Flights to these new destinations […]
Archives for 2018
Swiss government approves post-Brexit deal on treatment of UK and Swiss nationals
Today, The Federal Council, Switzerland’s executive, announced it has approved a deal safeguarding the rights of Swiss and UK citizens after Brexit. The agreement is part of a package of deals being worked out as part of a plan dubbed “Mind the Gap”. Under the agreement, any UK citizen residing in Switzerland before Brexit will […]
Switzerland could see vote on laws to ban age discrimination
Heidi Joos, the managing director of the organisation Avenir 50 plus, and others, plan to launch a referendum aimed at introducing laws against age discrimination in Switzerland. Age discrimination in recruitment is common in Switzerland. Some job search websites allow filtering by age, and job adverts sometimes specify applicants be below a particular age. The […]
Question of the week – If we exhaust the Earth we could move to Mars. But what would happen if we exhausted Mars too?
Some developing hi-tech solutions to environmental problems admit their efforts will provide only temporary breathing space if the humans continue to multiply and consume more. By this logic Mars would only provide more temporary breathing space. For more stories like this on Switzerland follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
Toblerone quietly becomes halal
The iconic Swiss chocolate Toblerone quietly became halal earlier this year, according to the newspaper SonntagsBlick. Owned by the American food company Mondelez, Toblerone chocolate has been produced in conformity with islamic law since April 2018, said the newspaper. The product is not labelled halal. The recipe, which contains sugar, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa […]
Tax on flying rejected by narrow majority in Swiss parliament
Earlier this week a thin majority of Switzerland’s parliament rejected a plan to tax flights out of Switzerland. 93 voted against, 88 in favour, with 8 abstentions, according to RTS. The vote was part of a project looking at the country’s emissions rules. More than 10% of greenhouse gas emitted by Switzerland comes from flying, […]
Switzerland experiences its coldest night since last February
Tuesday night brought a chill to Switzerland. The temperature in the town of Brévine in the Jura plunged to -20 degrees. In Glattalp, another of Switzerland’s famed cold spots, the temperature went as low as -36.5 degrees. Neither Brévine (1043m) or Glattalp (1896m) are particularly high, however they both have micro climates dictated by geography […]
Strasbourg shooting suspect shot dead
According to BFMTV, French police have shot and killed the man suspected of killing and injuring people in a shooting in Strasbourg on Tuesday night. The man was killed in a police shootout in Neudorf in Strasbourg a little after 9 pm. EN DIRECT – Attaque de Strasbourg: Chérif Chekatt a été abattu par la police […]
FILM: SHOPLIFTERS – a Tokyo family that survives by shoplifting
14 December 2018. By Neptune SHOPLIFTERS (Une Affaire de Famille) **** There is a delicacy and sensitivity to the films of Japanese master director Hirokazu Kore-Eda that introduce us to a Japan which is often far from our preconceived ideas about that country. He usually deals with the importance of the family unit, portraying it […]
Swiss supermarkets selling products with no country of origin on label
Even when labelled properly food labels provide precious little information on what a product might contain. For example, a piece of farmed salmon will typically be labelled only with its country of origin, containing no information on what the fish has been fed. Contaminated fish feed can significantly push up the level of dioxins found […]