GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A sad story arrived in the mailbox from canton Valais police this morning: a 90-year-old man who was hit while crossing the road Monday died of his injuries during the night. The accident took place in the village of Ollon. The man was in the yellow crosswalk area and the 24-year-old Russian […]
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More seat belts worn, but dip in back seat passengers buckling up
BERN, SWITZERLAND – Swiss drivers are increasingly buckling up, with the country passing the 90 percent threshold for the first time in 2012: 92 percent of drivers and front seat passengers used seat belts, the annual Swiss Safety Council (bfu) survey shows. But 2012 also saw a slight dip in the number of back seat […]
France’s new mandatory breathalyzer-in-car rule in effect 1 July
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A warning to all French motorists, but also tourists traveling through France starting 1 July: you must have a self-check alcohol test in your car. The new French regulation, designed to cut down on alcohol-related road accidents, calls for every car to carry a valid breathalyzer, meaning the expiry date must be […]
Census data shows 739,000 speak English at work in Switzerland
But the most startling language statistic is that English at work was measured clearly for the first time and 16.5 percent of people say they use English regularly at work: 739,000 people out of a working population of 6.52 million.
Israeli media react to Swiss Occupied Territories food labels change
ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – A large Swiss private humanitarian aid group ran full page ads in Zurich’s NZZ last week to support a decision by Migros to clearly identify the provenance of products that come from the Palestinian Occupied Territories. The group, Heks (Swiss Protestant Interchurch Aid group), known as Eper in French, is calling on […]