Greece’s former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis will stand for the May 2019 European election in Germany, a country he once locked horns with during the Greek debt crisis, the political movement he launched has announced. The anti-austerity maverick will head the list of Demokratie In Europa, a German political party that is part of the pan-European, cross-border movement DiEM25 set …

A Swiss referendum on a proposal that wants to place Swiss law above international agreements and treaties, has led to a huge deception today for initiators of the conservative nationalist SVP (Swiss People’s Party). No less than two-thirds of the voters rejected the populists’ proposal. With the clear “No” of the Swiss an important violation of international law and international …

On the Champs-Élysées in Paris, the order police deployed tear gas against demonstrators. It concerns participants in the protests of the ‘yellow vests’, the movement that has been campaigning for several weeks in various places in France against rising fuel prices due to higher excise duties. According to estimates from the authorities in France, about 80,000 people were present today. …

The Zurich City Police music band traveled to Chicago to take part in the Thanksgiving Parade. The musicians also marched through an airport. The American television station WGN-TV in Chicago had a visit from Swiss musicians. The police music band Zürich-city marched through the editorial, offices and corridors. “This Is Why You Love Or Hate Us. But This Is Us. …

Together with private investors, the city of Zurich is planning to build a football stadium for 18,000 fans, 174 cooperative apartments and two towers with 570 apartments on the Hardturm site. The Zurich voting population will definitely vote on the template next Sunday. In October, a vote on voting rights was submitted by voters from circles 5 and 10 against …

Steve Bannon, the former right-hand man to US president Donald Trump, is set to visit Zurich in December at the invitation of conservative Swiss magazine Die Weltwoche, the publication’s editor revealed on Wednesday. The nationalist American media executive will speak on March 6th about his time in Trump’s White House, Weltwoche editor-in-chief and member of Switzerland’s right-wing Swiss People’s Party …

Insurers who still want to grow can best focus on real service towards their customers, said earlier this week CEO of the Swiss insurance giant Zurich Mario Greco. In the meantime, more and more insurers actually pick up this ball, whether or not out of opportunistic motives. CEO Zurich: ‘Insurers fundamentally weak when it comes to customers’ The Financial Times …

The Department of Homeland Security is paying undercover informants inside the migrant caravan headed to the southern border, two DHS officials told NBC News on Tuesday. There are about 4,000 migrants in the caravan, most of them from Central America, and to communicate, they are using WhatsApp to text. DHS personnel are monitoring those messages, the officials said, as well …

Yannick Buttet will return to his role as president of the Collombey-Muraz commune in the canton of Valais on February 1st, nearly two months after he took leave following allegations of sexual harassment against him. The news was reported by Radio Chablais and confirmed to news agency ATS on Tuesday. As well as mayor of the commune, Buttet was also …

The Democratic Party won a majority in the House of Representatives during the mid-term elections in the US, the so-called ‘midterms’. The Republican Party of President Donald Trump managed to retain and expand the majority in the Senate. Although the voices from most states still had to enter the American west coast, it was clear around 5.00 am (Dutch time) …