Ex-Gambian Interior Minister Ousman Sonko, who lives in Switzerland as an asylum seeker, will be investigated and may face criminal charges for his past actions in Gambia.
Migrants granted leave to remain in Switzerland on the basis that they risk death in their homelands are using welfare money to fund holidays back home, the Basler Zeitung reports. The Swiss newspaper notes that thousands of migrants each year
The European Union is in the thrall of a politically correct “left-green” narrative that leaves it unable to deal with the migrant crisis, a leading Muslim academic has said.
The globalists in world politics and international finance are celebrating a somber occasion in Davos, media reports indicate, as their influence on the global stage is waning rapidly in the wake of the U.K. referendum to leave the European Union and the U.S. election of Donald Trump to the presidency.
A left wing Dutch vegan who has lived in Switzerland since she was a child has been denied a Swiss passport because locals in her adoptive town find her too annoying.
Muslim girls in Switzerland must attend mixed gender swimming lessons, the European Court of Human Rights (UNHCR) has ruled.
The Swiss intelligence community is increasing its alertness and its preparedness for future terror attacks as the number of known jihadis in the country grows. Last year, the National Intelligence Service (NDB) spent Christmas Eve on alert following a tip that
Three people have been shot by an unknown gunman at an Islamic centre in the Swiss city of Zürich and authorities say that the gunman is now on the run.
A policeman in Switzerland is appealing a conviction on bribery charges after it was revealed he had traded a residency permit for sexual favours from an Iraqi asylum seeker.
BERLIN (AP) — Swiss voters rejected a plan to accelerate the country’s exit from nuclear energy in a referendum Sunday, turning down an initiative that would have forced their government to shut the last plant in 2029.
Cities in Switzerland are considering banning the distribution of the Koran in an attempt to crack down on radical Salafists proselytising on the streets.
The capital of Islamic radicalism in Switzerland has been struck a blow after authorities arrested a prominent imam for inciting violence toward moderate Muslims.
(AFP) – When a leading French politician said Switzerland’s free ports were helping terrorists hide stolen assets, Swiss officials offered a blunt rebuke. In response to French finance minister Michel Sapin’s charge, authorities in Geneva insisted they had cleaned up
Swiss voters look set to decide for a second time whether to impose curbs on immigration from the European Union or reaffirm close economic ties with the bloc after the government said on Wednesday the issue deserved another referendum.
(REUTERS) – Switzerland hopes to have a like-minded ally outside the European Union once Britain leaves the EU, a top Swiss diplomat told the Neue Zuercher Zeitung newspaper.
GENEVA (AFP) – Switzerland’s lower house on Tuesday narrowly approved a draft bill on a nationwide burqa ban, the ATS news agency reported, but the measure remains far from coming into force.
GENEVA (AFP) – Italians were up in arms Monday after the southern Swiss canton of Ticino voted for a measure that would force employers to prioritise local residents over commuters living in Italy. The text, entitled “Ours first”, was put to
A new study has found significantly varied attitudes towards migratory groups among European citizens, with strong preference shown for refugees with a similar religious background, and higher levels of education.
As many as 40 per cent of the migrants who told Swiss authorities they intended to claim asylum in the country has disappeared from reception centres, media reports suggest.
A left-wing Swiss politician has been arrested after attempting to smuggle four African migrants from Italy into Switzerland.
(REUTERS) – Friction between Switzerland and the European Union over the bloc’s plans to tighten gun control following a rise in militant attacks could turn into another serious snag in ties already tested by Swiss efforts to curb immigration. The
A survey conducted by Swiss bank Credit Suisse shows the general public of Switzerland believe that their country’s economy will benefit from a Brexit. Though the mainstream media and establishment politicians have spread doom and gloom over the result of the British
(AFP) – A man set a train carriage in Switzerland on fire using a flammable liquid and stabbed passengers on Saturday, injuring six people including a six-year-old child, police said. The attack was the latest in a string of violent,
(AFP) – British Prime Minister Theresa May has chosen to spend her summer holidays in Switzerland — a country held up by some Brexit advocates as a model for Britain’s future relationship with the European Union. “The prime minister will
Israel’s tax authority, looking to crack down on unreported capital, said on Monday it has received a list from French authorities of more than 8,000 Israeli customers that held bank accounts at the Swiss arm of HSBC.
More than four out of five Germans have named migration as the biggest challenge their country faces after a record influx of more than a million migrants entered Germany last year.
Switzerland has added dozens of guards and a surveillance drone at its Italian border in an effort to reinforce security and stanch the flow of migrants heading into northern Europe.
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As presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump has preached a message of “America first,” major American companies, that have been staples of manufacturing and economic growth, are being bought up by foreign companies, at what seems to be an exponential rate.
Two Muslim girls have been refused a Swiss passport because the state has judged their naturalisation into society to have failed. The refusal of a passport for the two sisters aged 12 and 14 is based upon their refusal to
Switzerland has formally withdrawn her long-standing application to join the European Union (EU), as only “a few lunatics” now want to be involved with the bloc. The verdict comes just one week before Britons go to the polls to decide
Muslim students in the Swiss canton of Basel must shake the hands of teachers after a decision by the local school board. The case of two young Muslim students who refused to shake hands with their female teacher, because of
Contents: Austria deeply split between far-right and left-liberal candidates; Austria’s election part of a world-wide move to the right with deep polarization
A Swiss city that was the home of an Islamic State linked sleeper cell has announced the creation of a new centre to tackle the growing problem of radicalisation. The city of Winterthur announced the creation of a centre to
Against the odds, campaigners for Brexit are winning the argument on leaving the European Union (EU). At the London premiere of Martin Durkin’s Brexit The Movie – which you can now watch in full here or here – we got an inkling why. Call
Following on news of an increased presence of the Swiss army at the border with Italy to address a possibly uncontrolled influx of migrants during the summer, a senior official has proposed the construction of a barbed wire fence along the border.
Switzerland has announced it is considering stationing a tank battalion at its southern border with Italy, after news that Austria is ready to completely shut down the Brenner Pass between Italy and Austria.
Europe is abolishing itself and “it is an illusion” to think the continent can cope with the recent wave of mass migration, the editor of a Swiss magazine has warned. In an editorial in Die Weltwoche, Roger Köppel argues that
Swiss citizens have been outraged by the decision of a school board to allow Muslim pupils to refuse to shake hands with their teachers. On Sunday the phone number and email address of Swiss school headmaster Jürg Lauener was posted to
A combination of Islamist terror and badly designed migration policy is going to destroy Europe, claims a Swiss member of parliament who said Angela Merkel and Islam are to blame. The comments by Swiss People’s Party (SVP) member of parliament Roger Köppel are
