Source link Bern has announced a major conference in June seeking to end the conflict, which Moscow has no plans to attend Any diplomatic efforts to resolve the Ukraine conflict will be fruitless unless Russia is involved in the process, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis has said. Switzerland is planning to host a high-level Ukraine […]
Source link Moscow has expressed no interest in the conference, saying it will revolve around Kiev’s ‘peace formula’ that it rejects Ukraine could engage in diplomacy with Russia after the Swiss-hosted peace summit planned for later this year, Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba has suggested. Moscow has never ruled out engagement with Kiev but signaled it […]
Source link Moscow has strongly protested Bern’s decision to develop a legal basis for using its frozen funds to aid Kiev Russia’s Foreign Ministry summoned Switzerland’s ambassador to Moscow, Krystyna Marty Lang, on Tuesday to protest Bern’s moves towards allowing the use of frozen Russian central bank reserves to fund Ukraine. Switzerland has more than […]
Source link Authorities in Zurich paid city workers double their February salary due to a technical mistake, a statement published Monday on the official website of the Zurich City Council said. According to the statementthe error occurred when state-owned Zuercher Kantonalbank (ZKB), which handles the city’s salary transfers, was processing this month’s payments. A glitch […]
Source link World Economic Forum’s annual summit has pushed accommodation costs beyond reach of the federal government, local media reports The Swiss government can’t afford to send its own officials to the World Economic Forum’s elite yearly get-together in Davos, and is asking even “higher level” dignitaries to share hotel rooms, the Neue Zuercher Zeitung […]
Source link Any talks about peace between Moscow and Kiev will be useless unless Russia participates, the Alpine nation’s top diplomat says Any peace negotiations to resolve the ongoing conflict between Moscow and Kiev should involve Russia, asserted Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis during a press briefing in Davos, where he co-hosted a gathering focused […]
Source link Some Swiss financial institutions have begun charging their Russian clients fees on frozen accounts; these sometimes accrue interest payments years in advance, Vedomosti reported on Tuesday, citing bankers and a brokerage firm. A source in an auditing company told the outlet, citing an employee at one of the Swiss banks, that commissions on […]
Source link Banque Pictet used “a variety of means” to help customers evade taxes, prosecutors say A major Swiss bank has admitted to helping American taxpayers and others to hide billions of dollars from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Monday. According to US prosecutors, Banque Pictet held […]