Switzerland
BUSINESS
Swiss Tracks Turn Sunlight Into Power
As punishing heatwaves push European power grids toward their limits, a small Swiss railway trial hints that ordinary tracks could double as solar farms.
BUSINESS
Europe’s Nuclear Turn Carries a French Accent
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.
BUSINESS
Ageing Societies Slow Science’s Edge
Ageing societies do not only strain pensions and healthcare. They may also make science less bold, less disruptive, and more incremental over time.
EUROPE
Switzerland Names a Buried Crime
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.
US-China
Pacifists Buy Missiles: Bern and Tokyo After Hormuz
The world's oldest armed neutrality and its most famous pacifist constitution broke in the same month.
Popular
Moscow’s Syria Deal Hints at Wider War Theatre
A renewed Mediterranean bases deal for Moscow and Baghdad's unproven claim of Ukrainian cells both hint at a Middle East drawn into Europe's distant war.
Mecca Pact Reorders the Region’s Power Balance
A missile barrage on Najran leaves old alliances wanting, as Saudi Arabia leans on Ankara and Islamabad for a diplomatic defence pact.
Food Security: Europe’s Next Strategic Crisis
Heatwaves, war and disrupted trade routes are pushing food prices higher, turning agriculture from a consumer issue into a strategic European vulnerability.
Kinahan Extradition Shows How Safe Havens Collapse
Daniel Kinahan's extradition from Dubai closes one chapter in a criminal network that grew by exploiting the space between Ireland, Spain and the Gulf.
Berlin’s Plan to Fill Lebanon’s Coming Void
Germany wants Europe to guard southern Lebanon once UN peacekeepers leave, only to find Ankara already courting Beirut for the same role.
