The famously neutral Switzerland made the unexpected move to impose sanctions on Russia and Vladimir Putin in response to the invasion of Ukraine. This historical decision to take a stance and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MILAN — Switzerland is moving to formalize its membership in the European Sky Shield Initiative, a step that officials and ...

Switzerland has been a 'neutral' country for centuries now. The status has made it an attractive financial destination and the preferred facilitator of mediation. But this image of neutrality is more ...

President Trump’s tariff policies have reordered global supply chains, redrawn investment maps and tested old alliances. In Switzerland, they have also spurred an uneasy audit of its role in the world ...

ZURICH (Reuters) - Switzerland wants to participate in the European Sky Shield air defence umbrella, the government said on Tuesday, a move which critics say is incompatible with the country's ...

Swiss Defence Minister Martin Pfister said in Berlin on Monday that "Switzerland wants and is ready to take responsibility for its own security, while also meeting the expectations of other European ...

Little mountain-locked Switzerland, with a tradition of neutrality rooted four centuries back, kept out of the last war and is determined to keep out of the next. At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, ...

Switzerland is considering allowing its military hardware to be given to Ukraine. It would be a big change in policy for the traditionally neutral country. Switzerland's parliament today will consider ...

Russia’s bloody invasion of Ukraine has triggered a rare reaction from the historically neutral Switzerland: sanctions against Russia. Switzerland, the banking system of which has often been a safe ...

DURING those dark days, at the beginning of the century, when Switzerland had become the battlefield of Europe, and her independence was trampled underfoot alike by Napoleon and the Allies, Wordsworth ...