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Ukraine's peace summit in Switzerland will be held on June 15-16, based on an agreement between Kyiv and Bern, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 2. The Swiss news agency Swissinfo reported on the date already on April 10.The meeting will take place in the Burgenstock resort above Lake Lucerne in central Switzerland, and 160 national delegations will be invited to the talks. Russia, the aggressor in the ongoing war, will not be invited "at this stage" of the talks, the Swiss government said. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba justified the decision not to invite Russia in a comment...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Ukraine's peace summit in Switzerland will be held on June 15-16, based on an agreement between Kyiv and Bern, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 2. The Swiss news agency Swissinfo reported on the date already on April 10.The meeting will take place in the Burgenstock resort above Lake Lucerne in central Switzerland, and 160 national delegations will be invited to the talks. Russia, the aggressor in the ongoing war, will not be invited "at this stage" of the talks, the Swiss government said. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba justified the decision not to invite Russia in a comment...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Ukraine's peace summit in Switzerland will be held on June 15-16, based on an agreement between Kyiv and Bern, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on May 2. The Swiss news agency Swissinfo reported on the date already on April 10.The meeting will take place in the Burgenstock resort above Lake Lucerne in central Switzerland, and 160 national delegations will be invited to the talks. Russia, the aggressor in the ongoing war, will not be invited "at this stage" of the talks, the Swiss government said. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba justified the decision not to invite Russia in a comment...
Kyiv Independent
In the early 1990s, when Caroline Scheufele was still a young designer at her family’s watchmaking business, she realised Chopard did not make the kind of sportier women’s watch she wanted to wear. So, she took matters into her own hands. “I used to do a lot of sports, like skiing and swimming and tennis,” the artistic director and co-president of Chopard told Euronews Culture. “I realised we didn’t have anything cool like a sports ladies’ watch. Everything was sort of delicate with white gold or yellow gold, not even rose gold. So I designed the Happy Sport.” The Happy Sport - first released ...
Euronews (English)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has criticized a high-level international peace conference on Ukraine in June being planned for June in Switzerland. Russia will not be invited to the conference, but at the same time it will be clear that nothing can be decided without Moscow, Putin said at a meeting with Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday, the Russian news agency Interfax reported. "And because we are not going there, people are now saying that we are refusing to negotiate. This is a real panopticon," Putin asserted. On Wednesday, the Russian embassy in Bern said that Russia w...
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In a landmark decision, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has today ruled that climate change violates the right to respect for one’s private and family life. This is the main legal basis through which the court has previous rule on environmental cases, but an “historic” one regarding the climate crisis, observers say. The case was brought by an association of older Swiss women concerned about the impact of global warming on their health, who claim the Swiss government is not taking enough action. The ECHR ruled by 16 judges to 1 that the KlimaSeniorinnen (Swiss Elders for Climate Prot...
Euronews (English)
Annual inflation slowed as prices rose 1% compared to the previous year in Switzerland, the Federal Statistical Office reported on Thursday. The rate of the price increase was less than expected and also slower than the 1.2% measured in the previous month. As a matter of fact, it was the slowest since September 2021, vindicating thesurprise rate cut from the Swiss National Bank (SNB) last month. Annual core inflation, excluding volatile items such as food and energy prices, also slowed to 1% from the previous 1.1%. Switzerland and Norway could invest $100 billion in IndiaPrices remained unchan...
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Geneva (AFP) - One of the three people killed by an avalanche at the luxury Swiss ski resort of Zermatt was a 15-year-old boy from the United States, police said Tuesday. The two others killed in Monday's avalanche were "a man and a woman who are still being identified", the Wallis regional police said in a statement. "Regarding the female victim, we so far have no information allowing us to identify her." The large avalanche happened in an out-of-bounds area at Zermatt in southern Switzerland shortly after 2:00 pm (1200 GMT), and an extensive search was immediately carried out despite bad wea...
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Chinese consumers are becoming more cautious when it comes to spending on big-ticket items such as luxury goods, Swatch has warned. The increased cost of living, as well as a slowing economy still dealing with the lingering effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, have significantly contributed to this, the Swiss watchmaker explained. Increasing youth unemployment, as well as a struggling property sector has ensured that consumers are now thinking much more before making a purchase, preferring to buy fewer but more long-lasting pieces. Deflationary concerns have also led to clients choosing to save a...
Euronews (English)
For those with a close eye on Europe’s best cities, it will come as little surprise that Zurich has come out on top on the latest ranking of the continent’s most liveable places. Switzerland’s largest city beat out everywhere else in Europe in the recently-released quality of life report from the European Commission. The body’s survey took in answers from some 71,153 residents from 83 cities across the EU, European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries, the United Kingdom, the Western Balkans and Turkey. While the findings, which used data from 2023, discovered that, on average, about 9 in 1...
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