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GENEVA (Reuters) -Switzerland's foreign affairs ministry voiced support for a Chinese-led peace plan to end the Ukraine war, saying on Saturday that its view on such efforts had significantly ...
ZURICH (Reuters) -The Swiss government on Friday approved a new negotiating mandate for talks with Brussels to modernize the country's relationship with the European Union after a previous bid ...
Switzerland decided to phase out atomic energy after the 2011 nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan. In 2017, Swiss voters approved a government plan that included a ban on building new nuclear ...
The number of newspapers in Switzerland was 406 before World War I. [1] It reduced to 257 in 1995. [1] The country was ranked fifteenth for 2014 in the yearly Press Freedom Index published by Reporters Without Borders and 8th in 2020.
The government of Switzerland is a federal state with direct democracy. [1] The legislative branch is the Federal Assembly. The Federal Assembly has two parts: the National Council, which represents the public, while the Council of States represents the cantons. [2] The executive branch is the Federal Council, which has seven members who are ...
0376-6829. OCLC number. 698049952. Website. nzz.ch (in German) Head office in Zürich, as seen from Sechseläutenplatz. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ; "New Journal of Zürich") is a Swiss, German-language daily newspaper, published by NZZ Mediengruppe in Zürich. [1] The paper was founded in 1780. It has a reputation as a high-quality ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The virus was confirmed to have spread to Switzerland on 25 February 2020 when the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed following a COVID-19 pandemic in Italy .
Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. [ d ][ 13 ] It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is geographically divided among the Swiss Plateau, the Alps and the Jura; the Alps occupy the ...