The Latest Breaking News from Switzerland

The news will be welcome to the Scots planning on going on a skiing trip this winter.

Before COVID, the winter sports tourism industry was worth over €70 billion (£58.2 billion) a year globally, with ski resorts expanding across the world. The pandemic then led to a stark decrease in visitor numbers, with a major impact on revenues and livelihoods.

What makes gruyère unique? The mild, smooth and nutty cheese is a staple in Switzerland and France. Like many beloved cheeses, it’s highly protected. In France and Switzerland, to be able to call their cheese "gruyère", producers have to follow strict production rules. French and Swiss gruyère makers had hoped…

Switzerland is easing its travel rules this weekend and removing the need for tourists to have a negative Covid test such as a PCR or antigen test to be allowed to enter the country

Other Covid measures such as working from home have been extended until end of February

Switzerland will extend until the end of February coronavirus quarantine and work-from-home rules and plans to keep until the end of March other curbs on public life it tightened last month while trying to avoid another lockdown as the coronavirus pandemic rages, the government said on Wednesday.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will meet with his Russian counterpart in Switzerland this week as tensions between the U.S. and Russia escalate over a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine

French entry rules after the borders reopen; Dutch, Spanish and Italian rules; and the imminent “euro-visa”

As Britain's Got Talent returned, it's audience was left in stitches after judge Simon Cowell mistook the English flag for the flag of Switzerland

The Wembley game will be the Three Lions’ first of the World Cup year.

The full, new State Pension is worth up to £179.60 each week.