In June 2005, the cabinet announced that the costs “would amount in the coming years … to an average of SFr7.4 million ($8 million) a year”. This turns out to have been a massive underestimate, ...

She highlighted benefits gained by Switzerland, such as fewer asylum applications and police access to a Europe-wide crime database. Under the Schengen treaty Switzerland abandoned identity checks on ...

As part of an experiment to scale up the amount of content NZZ in English delivers, the following story was machine translated with minimal editing. Switzerland is part of the Schengen area, as are ...

Austrian policemen check passports at the Slovakian border to keep migrants from entering without authorization, in Kittsee, Austria, Sept. 29, 2022 (AP photo by Theresa Wey). Click to share on ...