On 27 March 2017, the Swiss Statistics Office released 2016 crime statistics. The total number of crimes recorded by the police fell by nearly 20,000 or 4.1% compared to 2015. This brings the total decline since 2009 to 15%. Total recorded crimes in 2016 were around 468,000, far below the 553,000 recorded in 2009. While the total number of recorded crimes […]
Young Swiss living at home for longer
24 Heures. Young Swiss are taking longer and longer to leave the family home according to a census study by Switzerland’s statistics office. During the 1970s and 1980s, the average age for making a break was between 20 and 21, now it’s around 24 or 25. One of the key drivers of the shift is […]
Switzerland in two and a half minutes – animated facts
The video below, created by Tony Johnston Media, whips through a few interesting facts on Switzerland, including its languages, political system, trains, gold, and a selection of its famous international residents. More detail on the information covered in this video can be found in these articles on Swiss wealth, Swiss trains, and the relative cost of Big […]
This year’s best Swiss cheese, selected from over 800
Over the weekend a group of judges sniffed and tasted their way through more than 800 different cheeses at the tenth Swiss Cheese Awards hosted in the Vallée de Joux, in Vaud, Switzerland. The most pleasing to nose and mouth was an Alpine gruyère AOP (Appellation d’Origine Protégée) made by Jean-Claude Pittet, from Brassus in […]
Two confirmed dead after attack on Swiss train
Le Matin. The 27 year old perpetrator of the train attack near Salez-Sennwald in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen, has died from his injuries, according to St. Gallen’s police. Earlier in the day a 34 year old female victim died from injuries resulting from the same attack. Doctors reported that two of the remaining […]
Swiss police search the house of train attacker
Tages Anzeiger. Around 2:20pm on 13 August 2016, a 27 year old man attacked passengers on a train travelling through the St. Gallen Rhine Valley as the train approached the town of of Salez, according to the Swiss-German newspaper Tages Anzeiger. Salez is in the Swiss canton of St. Gallen, close to the border with […]
Swiss gay divorce rate higher than heterosexual
20 Minutes. Since 1 January 2007, gay couples in Switzerland have been able to register their partnerships under Swiss federal law. At a federal level, same sex partnerships are governed by rules known in French as LPart and in German as PartG, rather than by laws covering heterosexual marriage. A number of Swiss cantons offered […]
Swiss football – Euro 2016 – progress and next match
The Swiss football team, won its first match against Albania (1:0) and drew its second against Romania (1:1). So far they have a total of 4 points – teams get 3 for a win, 1 for a draw and 0 for a loss. This score places them second in their Group behind France, on 6, but […]
Surprisingly, Swiss think the grass is greener in this country
A recent study by Geneva-based Livewhat, asked people from nine european nations what they thought about living conditions in one another’s country on a scale of 0 to 10. A score of 6 or more was considered good. The countries included were: Italy, Greece, UK, Spain, Poland, Germany, France, Sweden and Switzerland. In addition, each group was asked […]
New Swiss police cat
On 1 April, Vaud Police presented their new police cat. The cat dressed in a police harness had its pictures posted on the Vaud Police’s Facebook page. The point of the post was to use April fools day and a cat in uniform to remind people not to believe everything they see online and maintain […]
