After years of at times strong growth, the all-electric vehicle share of new registrations fell slightly in 2024. For passenger cars this figure fell to 19.0% (down from 20.7% in 2023) and for goods ...

Data centers consume vast amounts of energy – around 40 percent of it for cooling microprocessors alone. Novel cooling methods using ionic wind could drastically curb energy consumption. These are ...

While foreign trade was still negative in both directions in the previous year, exports reached a new high of +3.2% in 2024. However, this record was achieved almost exclusively thanks to the ...

As regards bilateral development cooperation, the SDC will phase out its bilateral development programmes in Albania, Bangladesh and Zambia by the end of 2028. This decision was based on the actual ...

For the Federal Council, it is clear that there must be no more irregularities of this kind. For this reason, it commissioned an independent group of experts to examine whether and how a revision of ...

In December 2023, the Federal Council brought the minimum tax of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) into force for domestic companies with effect from 1 January 2024.

Electronic signatures on documents should be recognised in Switzerland and in the European Union (EU). At its meeting on 29 January 2025, the Federal Council instructed the Federal Department of the ...

Bern, 29.01.2025 - At its meeting on 29 January, the Federal Council approved the negotiating mandate for an international treaty between Switzerland and Ukraine. In the process of rebuilding Ukraine, ...

At its meeting on 29 January 2025, the Federal Council approved the signing of a memorandum of understanding that will allow Switzerland to participate in the OSINT Centre of Excellence. This will ...

The Paris Agreement aims to limit global warming to an increase of 1.5 degrees. It obliges all countries to take concrete steps to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Countries must raise their ...

Invited guests also included WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and representatives of the private sector. The meeting emphasised the important role of the WTO and the rules-based international ...

It is estimated that over one million people were murdered by the Nazis at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp between 1940 and 1945. Red Army soldiers liberated the survivors in the early afternoon of 27 ...