Industry insists on its own role while Bern flexes its “integrity” muscle BERN, SWITZERLAND – The timing may have been a coincidence, but the Swiss government’s 67-page report on a how it plans to head the country’s financial centre in a new direction appeared within hours of damning report on the country’s biggest bank, UBS, [...]
Geneva train station to have major expansion by 2025 (update)
December 19, 2012 by
Updated 18:45 with figures from joint statement GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The makeover has already begun at Geneva’s Cornavin train station, as any occasional traveler trying to make sense of the frequent changes in the past two years has noted. Wednesday afternoon 19 December the city, canton, federal officials and the CFF rail company put it [...]
Hot time in the city: safety tips for your Swiss summer (update)
June 29, 2012 by
Including what’s on, new fun, travel tip and weather GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Temperatures are rising and we’re all heading out to the lake, swimming pools, concerts and festivals, lakeside terraces. Switzerland and its large cities remain some of the safest places on the planet because the level of violent crime is very low, but don’t [...]
And then there were 4: Gotthard road to be widened
June 27, 2012 by
BERN / ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Expect miracles. The end is in sight for the long holiday delays to get through the Gotthard Tunnel, a 10 km main north-south channel for road traffic in Europe. The Swiss government announced Wednesday that it will widen the major artery, which opened in 1980, by building a second road [...]
Cartoons for peace brings freedom of expression onto Geneva’s quai Wilson
June 11, 2011 by
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The work of some of the world’s finest cartoonists is bringing freedom of expression into the open, literally, along the Quai Wilson in Geneva, 10 June to 10 July, with a display of some 100 posters on large panels made available by the city of Geneva. Four cartoonists from countries where major [...]
Travel alert: Simplon road pass opens, trains rerouted following tunnel fire (update)
June 10, 2011 by
Updae 19:00 GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Police in canton Valais re-opened the Simplon road pass between Italy and Switzerland Friday morning after closing it for more than 24 hours following a fire in the Simplon rail tunnel. The fire broke out in a freight train early Thursday shortly after the train left Iselle, in Italy, heading [...]
Switzerland just grew airier, more efficient and richer
June 8, 2011 by
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Switzerland’s national tourism office has just handed a gift to wannabe tourists, a completely revised web site that makes just about every aspect of travel in the country easier. The overhaul of My Switzerland’s site was completed over the weekend of 4-5 June, and its new face was officially unveiled at the [...]
Swiss gov’t cluster munitions treaty to Parliament for ratification
June 7, 2011 by
BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss government Monday 6 June agreed, as expected, to ratify the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM). It signed the treaty in Dublin in 2008, along with 106 other countries, but needed to take the convention through several stages before ratification. A key step was the revision of Switzerland’s war material [...]
