https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The European Commission responded that the EU had been 'a boon' for the United States after President Donald Trump claimed it had been born to 'screw' the US, laying bare his hostility to the longtime US partners as he detailed new tariffs. https://www.thelocal.ch/20250227/europeans-hit-back-after-donald-trump-says-eu-was-born-to-screw-us Thu, 27 Feb 2025 07:27:39 +0100 europeans-hit-back-after-donald-trump-says-eu-was-born-to-screw-us Donald Trump hasn't even moved back into the White House -- but the volatile US president-elect has already rattled his counterparts in Europe. https://www.thelocal.ch/20250110/dont-add-fuel-to-fire-europe-tries-to-play-it-cool-as-storm-trump-approaches Fri, 10 Jan 2025 10:04:26 +0100 dont-add-fuel-to-fire-europe-tries-to-play-it-cool-as-storm-trump-approaches "Trust in Trump's America is gone." The coronavirus crisis has caused a dramatic deterioration in the European public perception of the US and left many believing the EU had become "irrelevant", new polling finds. https://www.thelocal.ch/20200629/how-the-covid-19-pandemic-has-changed-europeans-views-of-the-us-and-the-eu Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:22:08 +0200 how-the-covid-19-pandemic-has-changed-europeans-views-of-the-us-and-the-eu Teenagers huddled in a cage outside the UN in Geneva on Monday, as protesters demanded that the world body address the "unconscionable" US policy of separating migrant families crossing its southern border. https://www.thelocal.ch/20190617/kids-in-cages-geneva-protest-urges-un-action-on-trump-migration-policy Mon, 17 Jun 2019 19:22:35 +0200 kids-in-cages-geneva-protest-urges-un-action-on-trump-migration-policy US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will take part Saturday in a secretive meeting in Switzerland of global power brokers discreetly discussing issues like Brexit and the future of capitalism. https://www.thelocal.ch/20190602/pompeo-attends-secretive-bilderberg-meeting-in-switzerland Sun, 02 Jun 2019 21:53:59 +0200 pompeo-attends-secretive-bilderberg-meeting-in-switzerland Swiss President Ueli Maurer met briefly with Donald Trump visit on Thursday with a possible free trade agreement between Switzerland and the US among the topics discussed. https://www.thelocal.ch/20190517/swiss-president-on-trump-you-could-get-along-with-him Fri, 17 May 2019 11:23:43 +0200 swiss-president-on-trump-you-could-get-along-with-him Swiss President Ueli Maurer will travel to Washington to meet with Donald Trump on Thursday after receiving a surprise invitation. https://www.thelocal.ch/20190516/donald-trump-hands-swiss-president-surprise-white-house-invite Thu, 16 May 2019 12:03:12 +0200 donald-trump-hands-swiss-president-surprise-white-house-invite Authorities in the Swiss town of Davos have given the youth wing of Switzerland's Socialist Party permission to stage an anti-capitalist protest during US President Donald Trump's attendance at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting later this month. https://www.thelocal.ch/20190109/davos-approves-anti-donald-trump-protest-during-world-economic-forum-wef-meeting Wed, 09 Jan 2019 17:42:00 +0100 davos-approves-anti-donald-trump-protest-during-world-economic-forum-wef-meeting Switzerland's finance minister, Ueli Maurer, is set to meet privately with US President Donald Trump during the World Economic Forum meeting in the Swiss town of Davos later this month. https://www.thelocal.ch/20190107/swiss-finance-minister-to-meet-with-trump-in-davos Mon, 07 Jan 2019 21:50:42 +0100 swiss-finance-minister-to-meet-with-trump-in-davos The World Trade Organization agreed Tuesday to hear complaints from Switzerland and India over US steel and aluminium tariffs, bringing the total number of such complaints it is reviewing to nine. https://www.thelocal.ch/20181204/wto-to-rule-in-swiss-row-with-us-over-tariffs Tue, 04 Dec 2018 20:28:29 +0100 wto-to-rule-in-swiss-row-with-us-over-tariffs Switzerland's foreign ministry said on Tuesday it regretted the decision of the United States to withdraw from the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180620/switzerland-regrets-us-decision-to-quit-un-human-rights-council Wed, 20 Jun 2018 19:25:07 +0200 switzerland-regrets-us-decision-to-quit-un-human-rights-council Speaking in Geneva on Thursday, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres said he was "deeply concerned" after US President Donald Trump cancelled a widely anticipated nuclear summit next month with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180524/un-chief-deeply-concerned-as-us-cancels-nuclear-summit-with-north-korea Thu, 24 May 2018 22:41:13 +0200 un-chief-deeply-concerned-as-us-cancels-nuclear-summit-with-north-korea When Zurich-based lawyer and business owner Stephan Roh visited New York last year, he was pulled over in the passport queue by heavily-armed FBI officers and grilled for hours. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180514/why-a-zurich-lawyer-is-being-targeted-in-russiagate Mon, 14 May 2018 15:55:24 +0200 why-a-zurich-lawyer-is-being-targeted-in-russiagate A subsidiary of Swiss pharmaceuticals giant Novartis paid a firm owned and controlled by US President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen $100,000 a month for 12 months beginning in February 2017, it has emerged. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180511/novartis-under-fire-over-12-million-payment-to-trumps-lawyer-michael-cohen Fri, 11 May 2018 10:40:39 +0200 novartis-under-fire-over-12-million-payment-to-trumps-lawyer-michael-cohen The US president sent a personal letter to a police commander in the Swiss canton of Graubünden after the Davos World Economic Forum in January it has emerged. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180509/donald-trump-sends-personal-thank-you-note-to-swiss-police-chief Wed, 09 May 2018 14:14:50 +0200 donald-trump-sends-personal-thank-you-note-to-swiss-police-chief Comedy with a serious purpose: this is the aim of a group of US expats in Zurich who have produced a series of funny videos urging their compatriots to vote in midterm elections later this year. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180507/the-seriously-funny-business-of-getting-us-expats-in-switzerland-to-vote-in-the-midterms Mon, 07 May 2018 14:32:02 +0200 the-seriously-funny-business-of-getting-us-expats-in-switzerland-to-vote-in-the-midterms A recent shift in nuclear weapons policies in the United States and Russia, involving upgrades, modernisation and growing arsenals is as dangerous as North Korea's nuclear threat, campaigners warned recently. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180421/us-russian-nuclear-shift-as-dangerous-as-north-korean-threat-campaigners-ican-geneva Sat, 21 Apr 2018 14:53:32 +0200 us-russian-nuclear-shift-as-dangerous-as-north-korean-threat-campaigners-ican-geneva Women in Switzerland are being asked to leave work early on March 8th, International Women’s Day, to highlight the gender pay gap in the country. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170301/geneva-womens-march-organizers-campaign-for-equal-pay Wed, 01 Mar 2017 12:44:31 +0100 geneva-womens-march-organizers-campaign-for-equal-pay Some 2,000 women, men and children turned out for the Geneva Women’s March for Dignity on January 21st, part of a global movement of women’s marches the day after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170121/thousands-march-in-geneva-were-hoping-theyre-going-to-listen Sat, 21 Jan 2017 17:52:26 +0100 thousands-march-in-geneva-were-hoping-theyre-going-to-listen