Everyone has a story. My Swiss Story is a series that looks at lives in Switzerland. In 2018, we spoke to Loki le Magnifique, a cat, originally from Honolulu, Hawai‘i, who moved to Switzerland in 2010.

Dec 27, 2024 · Every year, Switzerland gets a new president. It happens so often that some Swiss people don’t know the name of their head of state. The role of Swiss president doesn’t come with the power of most presidencies.

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Jan 31, 2020 · The survey was conducted in 2011, 2015 and 2019. Since 2011, concern (based on those saying they considered something to be very or fairly dangerous) has risen for mobile phone antenna (+8.7 percentage points), climate change (+8.4), loss of biodiversity (+7.3), genetic research and medicine (+6.1), construction and infrastructure (+4.4), genetically modified food (+4.0) and traffic (+2.5).

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Dec 19, 2024 · This week, the Green Party and the environmental group actif-trafiC announced they had gathered enough signatures to trigger a vote to overturn a government decision to cut subsidies for overnight tra

On 22 September 2021, the World Health Organisation (WHO) adjusted its healthy guidelines for key air pollutants. Switzerland now regularly exceeds maximum guidelines for several pollutants.

Jan 10, 2025 · In 2023, Swiss voters accepted a plan to provide subsidies to replace oil and basic electric heating with cleaner more efficient heating, such as electric heat pumps. The plan involved spending CHF 200 million a year on such incentives over a 10-year period starting on 1 January 2025. However ...

Jan 4, 2025 · In a ranking published in December 2024, Swiss Rail was ranked the second best railway company in Europe. This week, RTS reported that its ranking had dropped to 11th out of 27. Photo by Matheus Guimarães on Pexels.com Why? Oddly, in its app, Swiss Rail presents half price tickets as the default ...

Jan 7, 2022 · Ignazio Cassis was born in the town of Sessa above Lake Lugano in Italian-speaking Switzerland in 1961. He was born Italian and became Swiss in 1976 at the age of 15. After Swiss military service, he studied medicine at the University of Zurich, graduating in 1987.