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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Bern, 17.01.2025 - The 55th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum will take place in Davos next week. Six members of the Federal Council will be attending the event. President Karin Keller-Sutter ...

The Producer and Import Price Index remained unchanged in December 2024 compared with the previous month, at 106.3 points (December 2020 = 100). Compared with December 2023, the price level of the ...

Bern, 23.01.2025 - At the 2025 edition of the World Economic Forum, Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis, head of the FDFA, placed particular emphasis on European policy and the situations in Ukraine and ...