Anyone taking a Swiss driving test from January next year will face a reorganised, digitised process
The theory test will grow from 50 questions to 55, with the margin for error raised from 15 wrong answers to 17 — and the traffic-theory course must now be completed before the exam, not after.
First-aid certificates and vision tests will no longer be on paper: they will be filed into a new electronic database, linked to each applicant through a personal code.
Mont Blanc increases in height
Haute-Savoie's chamber of chartered surveyors announced yesterday that Mont Blanc now stands at 4,807.47 metres — up 1.88 metres from the last September reading in 2023
Concerns for a supermarket Swiss cyber attack
Migros has acknowledged that the Danfoss cooling systems hit by this week's French supermarket cyberattack are used in a handful of its own Swiss branches
PostFinance plan not fully completed
PostFinance's emergency plan does not yet meet regulatory requirements, the Swiss financial supervisor Finma said yesterday
Health insurers proposed rule rejected
Health insurers will not be forced to channel their investment gains back into lower premiums, after the Federal Council rejected a parliamentary proposal to make the mechanism mandatory
Questions over FIFA President's salary
The president of Zurich-based FIFA may have pocketed an extra 1.72 million US dollars on top of his official salary, according to The Times
Proposed change in retirement plans
Switzerland's bourgeois parties are asking the Federal Council to tie retirement age to the length of a person's working life, rather than a fixed age for all
