An Italian DJ has undergone assisted suicide in Switzerland, two days after criticizing Italy's government for postponing debate on living wills legislation.
The European Union and Rome voiced exasperation on Monday after the southern Swiss canton of Ticino voted to curb job access for workers living across the border in Italy.
Italians were up in arms Monday after the southern Swiss canton of Ticino voted for a measure that would force employers to prioritize local residents over commuters living in Italy.
Italian police on Friday arrested a Syrian fugitive wanted under an international arrest warrant after his prison guard lover in Switzerland helped him break out of jail.
The Italian government said on Wednesday it was set to rake in at least €3.8 billion euros ($4 billion) after tax dodgers took advantage of an amnesty deal to declare money and assets hidden abroad.
More than 1,000 people gathered at the Mattmark hydro dam in the Swiss canton of Valais Alps on Sunday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of a natural disaster that killed 88 workers, including 56 Italians.
Italian pro-euthanasia campaigners on Tuesday said that a terminally ill patient who travelled to Switzerland to end their life changed their mind at the last minute.
Swiss police have arrested fugitive Italian financier Marco Marenco, wanted for fraud and tax evasion in his country, in Lugano, according to police and media reports.
Italy and Switzerland on Monday signed a "historic agreement" to fight tax evasion, giving Italians until September to disclose funds hidden across the border.
The death toll from an avalanche that swept away a group of Italian skiers in the Swiss Alps has risen to four after a man died from his injuries, police said on Sunday.
The Swiss government has presented a bill for new quotas on immigration from the European Union, a move which if made law would hit thousands of Italians who cross the border for work.
A Swiss town's campaign to hire only local residents has been interpreted as anti-Italian, but the local mayor has said the decision is anything but racist.
The European Court of Human Rights barred Switzerland on Tuesday from sending a family of Afghan migrants back to Italy, ruling their well-being could be at risk.
UPDATED: Some 460 Italians, who were either terminally sick or suffering from debilitating illnesses, tried to end their lives at “right to die” clinics in Switzerland last year, the coordinator of Italy’s Euthanasia Law campaign told The Local.
Switzerland needs to change its agreement with Italy over the taxation of cross-border workers to make it less appealing for them to work in the canton of Ticino, Swiss Finance Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf says.
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.
Switzerland has finalized a 13-year process of returning more than 4,500 ancient artifacts to Italy that were stolen by a criminal gang, the Swiss justice ministry said on Thursday.
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.
An elderly Italian woman missing from her home in the northern Italian city of Vicenza since the end of January had travelled to Switzerland to end her life, Italian media reported.
The Vatican is sending a delegation to the Syria peace talks due to start in Switzerland on Wednesday, a spokesman
said, following repeated calls by Pope Francis for an immediate ceasefire and a negotiated solution to the raging conflict.
