A Green-Liberal MP is pushing to break its taboo around air conditioning in hospitals and care homes, as the current heatwave strains nursing staff.
Patrick Hässig, who is also a nurse, says modern units have improved sharply and should be part of a wider package — alongside more green spaces, shading, and solar power.
Care workers currently make do with fans, cold compresses, and closed shutters, but Hässig says high indoor temperatures are making concentrated medical work harder.
Patients in shared rooms suffer the most. He is calling for an open debate, free of ideological constraints, on how to keep vulnerable Swiss residents safe in a warming climate.
The Council of States has rejected a popular initiative that would have let foreigners apply for citizenship after just five years, closing the parliamentary door on the biggest attempt in years to loosen one of Europe's strictest naturalisation regimes
The canton of Geneva is set to become the sole owner of the land beneath Stade de Genève, buying out a parcel held by federal railways CFF for CHF 15.84 million
The Swiss National Bank has kept its key interest rate at zero, sticking with a policy that has held since June 2025 even as oil-driven inflation ticks higher