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The European Union formally considers Switzerland a partner country in the implementation of sanctions against Russia over its war on Ukraine.

The European Union formally considers Switzerland a partner country in the implementation of sanctions against Russia over its war against Ukraine. This was viewed as a welcome sign of appreciation in Bern—especially after the criticism of the G7 ambassadors over Switzerland’s slow pace freezing Russian assets “Switzerland has been added by the EU to the list of partner countries for sanctions against Russia,” wrote Swiss government spokesman André Simonazzi on Twitter late Friday. “T...

Some people think insects will be the protein of the future and eliminate world hunger. But they are not exactly flying off Swiss shelves.

Switzerland’s Covid app went offline for an hour late Friday due to technical issues, Keystone-SDA reported. The glitch also affected the operation of EU-issued Covid certificates in Swiss territory. The Swiss digital health certificate could not be updated and showed an invalid signature , a failure that was first reported on Twitter by 20 Minuten and Blick. The Federal Office of Information Technology and Telecommunication (FOITT), which developed the SwissCovid application, said the outage ...