Articles
As Europe Reels, Switzerland Builds New Barriers Against Immigrants
Nestled in the heart of Europe, but with a mindset that sets it apart from its neighbors, Switzerland has avoided much of the turbulence that roiled Europe over...
A New Lease on Life for the Mysterious Lost Bank Accounts of Switzerland
After decades of drama, the country has set a new 62-year deadline for families to claim assets stashed in Swiss banks
Early Curfew for Switzerland’s Teens
Swiss towns and villages are enacting a 10 p.m. curfew for teenagers 16 and under in attempt to reduce late night noise, vandalism and underage drinking, the BBC...
Why Rich Switzerland Is Livid About Rich-Executive Payouts
The anger over excessive executive pay has finally spilled over to affluent Switzerland, more than a year after igniting the Occupy Wall Street movement in the...
The Swiss Difference: A Gun Culture that Works
The country had one mass shooting in 2001 but a resulting anti-gun referendum failed to pass. The Swiss will not give up the gun. Can their system work in the...
Photo Essays
Behind the Picture: Goebbels Glares at Eisenstaedt, Geneva, 1933
The unsettling image of the Third Reich’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, glaring at photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt during a League of Nations conference...
Vlad the (Insect) Impaler: LIFE With Nabokov and His Beloved Butterflies
On anyone’s list of the 20th century’s greatest writers never to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov will likely appear at, or very...
Time.com Specials
UEFA EURO 2008
TIME takes a look at the UEFA Euro 2008 Championships taking place in Austria and Switzerland
Articles from Around the Web
31 arrested in $ 50- million diamond robbery at Brussels Airport
Arrests take place in Belgium, Switzerland and France in connection with the daring tarmac heist in February outside a Helvetic Airways jet. LONDON -- Thirty-one people have...
Explorer | Switzerland: Hiking the Alps of Goethe and James Bond
Hiking valleys and peaks that were an inspiration for poetry and a movie set. ...
World Briefing | Europe: Switzerland: Quotas on Europeans
Swiss officials said Wednesday that they planned to restrict immigration from Western European countries starting next month, citing the high number of people coming to their...
Watchmakers Find Gold Rush in China Is Slowing Down
Shipments of timepieces to China from Switzerland, the world's dominant watch production center, have fallen below the levels of two years ago, after setting a record in 2012...
