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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

Velcro: how space race helped Swiss invention catch on

21. junio 2025 - Swiss engineer George de Mestral patented the Velcro fastener in the 1950s. However, the principle was initially met with scepticism and rejection. It…

Mortgages in Switzerland: how the system works

21. junio 2025 - Home loans are cheap in Switzerland. There are good sides and bad sides to this. Here is what you need to know about mortgages in Switzerland, a…

Most Swiss Abroad won’t be able to vote online in 2027 federal election

17. junio 2025 - Only a handful of cantons are likely to have an online voting system for the next federal elections, according to a survey by SWI swissinfo.ch. Six…

Picture of the day

16. junio 2025 - The artist Katharina Grosse is drenching Basel’s Messeplatz in colour. In the picture, a team member is working on the large-scale installation, which…

What a love of cat ladders says about the Swiss

14. junio 2025 - Visitors to Bern are often surprised by the number and variety of cat ladders snaking their way up houses. “That can’t be safe!” is a common reaction.…

Swiss societies in Britain rebrand as SwissCommunity UK

11. junio 2025 - Major changes are taking place for the Swiss community in the UK: a new ambassador will arrive in London, and FOSSUK, the federation of Swiss…

Flat-hunting in Switzerland’s cheapest and most expensive municipalities

08. junio 2025 - It’s just a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Le Locle in the Neuchâtel Jura to Kilchberg on Lake Zurich. But when it comes to property prices, the two…

The difficult search for real Swiss cows

07. junio 2025 - For tourists and locals alike, cows are inextricably linked with the image of Switzerland. But in most cases, this Swiss national symbol has non-Swiss…

Around the world with a young Swiss explorer in 1900 

07. junio 2025 - Long before he became president of the ICRC, Zurich-born Max Huber travelled the world for two years. The young lawyer documented every step of his…

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

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