Switzerland could be in for spending cutbacks over the next few years as the federal government looks to save an additional three billion francs ($3.1bn).
The 18-year-old son of Defence Minister Ueli Maurer has embarrassed his father again by crashing the family car into a house after reportedly drinking.
Switzerland’s minister for sport, Ueli Maurer, is under fire for spending more than 200,000 francs ($205,000) on a private jet to take him to Brazil to watch the Swiss national football team in a World Cup match last year, it emerged on Thursday.
Switzerland's parliament on Monday voted in favour of a controversial plan to buy six Israeli surveillance drones worth
250 million Swiss francs ($256 million, €230 million).
The youngest son of Swiss Defence Minister Ueli Maurer faces charges of possessing pot and attempting to evade a police check, according to media reports on Tuesday.
Swiss President Ueli Maurer has said that he will attend the Russian Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014 despite other world leaders’ decision to boycott the event in protest over a recent Russian anti-gay law.
The Swiss government joined those from dozens around the world in playing tribute to the late Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, credited with ending racial apartheid in his country.
American spies used high-performance antennas hidden behind a false facade on the roof of the US Mission to the United Nations in Geneva to intercept mobile phone calls and internet messages from foreign diplomats, according to a report published on Tuesday by German magazine Der Spiegel.
Swiss President Ueli Maurer said in comments broadcast on Saturday that he was outraged at revelations of sweeping US surveillance on allies, insisting the snooping would weaken rather than strengthen Washington.
Swiss President Ueli Maurer is facing controversy in Switzerland for becoming the first western leader to visit a tank division in China, where he is on a four-day official visit.
Swiss President Ueli Maurer says Switzerland is prepared to launch a criminal investigation against American spy Edward Snowden if concrete proof of his activities in the Alpine country is confirmed.
Disappointed with the results of his brief foray into the most popular social medium on earth, Swiss President Ueli Maurer has given up his Facebook account.
Many Swiss were outraged Wednesday after hearing that the country's beloved aerobatic red planes with their characteristic white crosses, the Patrouille Suisse, will be cut from the Swiss air force by 2016.
Swiss People’s Party (SVP) cabinet minister Ueli Maurer was elected Swiss president for the coming year in a vote on Wednesday by the federal assembly, a joint meeting of the upper and lower houses of parliament.
The Swiss chapter of Amnesty International is using humour and satire in a new hard-hitting campaign to combat policies that toughen conditions for asylum seekers in Switzerland.
<p><span>Nobody in their right mind would consider joining the European Union in its current state, Switzerland’s defence minister believes. </span></p>
