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Switzerland votes ‘oui’ to Eurovision
After Nemo's 2024 victory, Eurovision has become increasingly political for the Swiss
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How to cause a stink in Switzerland
The country has an obsession with cleanliness but there are some kinks in its food waste system that need to be ironed out
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The bohemian travel writer always drawn back home
The troubled journalist forged her place in and around a world to which she never quite belonged
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Following Luigi Ghirri out of the ordinary
The Italian photographer who captured the magic in the everyday
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Language on the move
The geographical spread of Romansh in Switzerland is shrinking as speakers start to use the German of their near neighbours
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Scheidegger, artist of the portraits
How tragedy turned photojournalist Ernst Scheidegger into a recorder of Dalí, Giacometti and more
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Has the ECHR overreached on climate change?
A case brought by Swiss pensioners could be a turning point for the court
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Angelica Kauffman, the heroine of heroines
Her portraits of women in active roles and her self-belief make her a pioneering figure in art history
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Cern’s 21st-century dream machine
The enormous Future Circular Collider is set to replace the Large Hadron Collider by the end of the century. But do we really need it?
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A Swiss lesson about neighbours
Cast adrift from the rest of Europe in self-imposed isolation, the UK is behaving like a spoilt child
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The karaoke moralists of Davos shrug as the fire they lit burns up the world
The world’s most discredited and pointless summit will provide few answers
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The secret history of a bloody nose: the horrific origins of Le Nez by Giacometti
There are many interpretations of its meaning. Are we witness to a dark memory, a sexual desire or a surrealist Pinocchio?
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Radical acts of resistance: women in the Paris Avantgarde
A new exhibition in Basel aims to put women at the centre of the previously male-dominated Fauvism movement
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Nomad world: the esoteric aura of Not Vital
How the Switzerland-born contemporary artist has left his mark across the globe
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The centenary no one wants to remember
The 1923 Treaty of Lausanne crushed hopes of a homeland for Turkey’s Armenian and Kurdish minorities. Today, hostilities remain
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Celebrating thirty years of classical music’s Davos
The world’s musical elite gather in Switzerland for the Verbier Festival to entertain and teach, rather than take over the world
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HR Giger: The outsider who created a monster
Nightmares were the business of Hans Ruedi Giger, who drew on his own to
create surrealist art – and the creature at the heart of Alien
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Life in a once cold climate: The changing face of the Alps
The skiing season and Europe’s winter sports culture are under existential threat from rising temperatures
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Is the Large Hadron Collider stuck?
Europe’s great scientific
experiment may not be hitting the headlines, but its work to explain the universe goes on
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Priya Ragu, the Tamil trailblazer
While influenced by
American R&B, the emerging superstar’s eponymous “Raguwavy” is virtually unique
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Switzerland is the EU’s new problem child – why would anyone want to copy that?
Even the Swiss hate the sort of deal that government sources are eyeing up for Britain
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The best of European Street Food: Switzerland’s clear soup with ground pork and cucumber
Chef Yaowaret Homberger from Thai Moving Noodles presents her clear soup with ground pork and cucumber
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Jean Arp: The living embodiment of the absurdity of borders and barriers
The early leader of the Dadaist movement blurred the boundaries of style and genre, writing poetry as good as his art, making sculptures as good as his collages
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A Swiss super-luxury for the super-rich
A company is offering the ultimate symbol of wealth - a 52-metre luxury yacht tethered to a 200-metre helium airship
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Trigger warning: football club owner avoids jail over gun on pitch
News you might have missed from across Europe
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A Swedish city deploys an army of Crows to clean litter from the streets
The ‘Corvid Cleaning’ trial in Södertälje will determine whether the project will be rolled out across the rest of the nation
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Sexist menu row sparks national debate in Italy
News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.
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Weird Europe: Italian shopkeeper ‘stole’ scratchcard win
News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.
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Weird Europe: Annual Montenegro laziness championships are underway
News that you might have missed from around the continent, selected by Steve Anglesey.
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Weird Europe: Kanye West fans race to Paris suburbs field for gig that never was
More weird news from Europe, including a fake Kanye West gig in a field near Paris, a cow-riding German and the Austrian punk singer who vaccinates his own fans