Switzerland

As punishing heatwaves push European power grids toward their limits, a small Swiss railway trial hints that ordinary tracks could double as solar farms.

Finland's vote to allow nuclear weapons and Switzerland's push for new reactors both trace back to a familiar French ambition to lead Europe's atomic future.

Ageing societies do not only strain pensions and healthcare. They may also make science less bold, less disruptive, and more incremental over time.

After Swiss lawmakers voted this week to declare the treatment of Yenish and Sinti families a crime against humanity, a long-buried national shame entered public language at last.

The world's oldest armed neutrality and its most famous pacifist constitution broke in the same month.