Switzerland

A sleepy Alpine mountain retreat offered shelter for surrealists, LSD prophets and weary hippies

Gianni Infantino, the boss of FIFA, spends his time with influencers, Gulf royalty and Donald Trump. He says it’s all about the football – but really it’s all about him

The nation has just negotiated a new settlement with the EU, and British officials have been playing close attention to the terms of the deal

Poster genius Dafi Kühne’s hands-on approach and playful designs create a singular vision

The sculptor’s fame was eclipsed by Rodin’s. But he continues to influence new generations of artists

Klaus Schwab, the man who founded the Davos summit, had a vision for the world. But things haven’t turned out the way he wanted

The Swiss are famously moderate – but when an image from a Basel carnival went viral, it led to a period of national self-examination

New findings at Cern offer tantalising clues to why the universe contains matter rather than antimatter – but answers remain elusive

The UK could boost growth with a bespoke EU deal like the one the Swiss have just renegotiated. What’s the hold-up?

Reliable snowfall is becoming a thing of the past in the Alps, where the effects of climate change are magnified due to the terrain

During the festive season, the usually risk-averse Swiss suddenly throw caution to the wind

After Nemo's 2024 victory, Eurovision has become increasingly political for the Swiss

The country has an obsession with cleanliness but there are some kinks in its food waste system that need to be ironed out

The troubled journalist forged her place in and around a world to which she never quite belonged

The Italian photographer who captured the magic in the everyday

The geographical spread of Romansh in Switzerland is shrinking as speakers start to use the German of their near neighbours

How tragedy turned photojournalist Ernst Scheidegger into a recorder of Dalí, Giacometti and more

A case brought by Swiss pensioners could be a turning point for the court

Her portraits of women in active roles and her self-belief make her a pioneering figure in art history

The enormous Future Circular Collider is set to replace the Large Hadron Collider by the end of the century. But do we really need it?

Cast adrift from the rest of Europe in self-imposed isolation, the UK is behaving like a spoilt child

The world’s most discredited and pointless summit will provide few answers

There are many interpretations of its meaning. Are we witness to a dark memory, a sexual desire or a surrealist Pinocchio?

A new exhibition in Basel aims to put women at the centre of the previously male-dominated Fauvism movement

How the Switzerland-born contemporary artist has left his mark across the globe

The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne crushed hopes of a homeland for Turkey’s Armenian and Kurdish minorities. Today, hostilities remain

The world’s musical elite gather in Switzerland for the Verbier Festival to entertain and teach, rather than take over the world

Nightmares were the business of Hans Ruedi Giger, who drew on his own to create surrealist art – and the creature at the heart of Alien

The skiing season and Europe’s winter sports culture are under existential threat from rising temperatures

Europe’s great scientific experiment may not be hitting the headlines, but its work to explain the universe goes on

While influenced by American R&B, the emerging superstar’s eponymous “Raguwavy” is virtually unique

Even the Swiss hate the sort of deal that government sources are eyeing up for Britain