A 46-year-old Italian plunged to his death in the Swiss Alps on Thursday after crashing onto rocks during a base jump, the second such accident in Switzerland in under a year, police said.
Italy and Switzerland on Monday signed a "historic agreement" to fight tax evasion, giving Italians until September to disclose funds hidden across the border.
Five thousand boxes of chocolate, stolen from the Swiss luxury chocolate maker Lindt & Sprüngli and valued at €1.5 million, have been found in a warehouse near Naples.
Europe's drugs watchdog on Wednesday said it found no evidence to link the Novartis flu vaccine Fluad to a scare in Italy, where 19 people are reported to have died after being given the jab.
The Italian Pharmaceutical Agency (Aifa) said on Monday it has now been notified of 19 deaths among people who had recently taken a Novartis flu vaccine, but that initial testing had ruled out contamination of two batches of the drug which were taken out of circulation last week.
Nestlé Italy said on Thursday that a disabled staff member, who was initially sacked for publicly criticizing company managers over Facebook, will no longer lose her job.
UPDATED: Swiss food giant Nestlé fired a disabled member of staff at its Perugina chocolate division after she posted a message on Facebook in which she “undermined the authority” of managers.
Switzerland’s relationship with the EU was on the agenda when Swiss President Didier Burkhalter met Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi during an official visit to Rome on Tuesday.
An Italian has been stopped by police on a Swiss train, after his suspiciously large package turned out to be €40,000 in banknotes stuffed into his underwear.
Could Sardinia become Switzerland's 27th canton? In a bid to ease Italy's economic woes, a Facebook campaign has been set up to sell the southern Italian island of Sardinia to the Alpine country.
A Swiss vote to limit mass immigration will only serve to fuel right-wing populism in neighbouring countries and is also a concern for Italians in border towns who depend on Switzerland for jobs, the mayor of Bellano, a town on the shore of Lake Como told The Local.
A Swiss court has ordered Bern to stop transferring secret banking data to Italy in connection with a money
laundering case, according to a ruling published on Monday.
