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The Digital Switzerland Advisory Board meeting on 1 December 2025 focused on discussing the opportunities and potential of using and publishing open source software. Participants agreed that open source is a central pillar of digital sovereignty and should be promoted even more strongly in the future. The meeting was chaired by Federal Chancellor Viktor Rossi.

Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis will be in Vienna on 3-4 December 2025 to represent Switzerland at the annual Ministerial Council of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). The meeting will provide an opportunity to discuss the challenges facing the European security architecture, particularly the war in Ukraine. Switzerland, which will assume the OSCE chairpersonship in 2026, will reaffirm its priorities at the meeting.

On 1 December 2025 FDFA State Secretary Alexandre Fasel received the Brazilian Secretary General of Foreign Affairs Maria Laura da Rocha in Bern for political consultations. Both delegations took the opportunity to discuss key topics – from sustainability, the economy and multilateralism to regional security policy issues. Brazil is Switzerland's biggest trading partner in Latin America.

Florian Schütz, director of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), is travelling to Japan to strengthen international cooperation in the field of cybersecurity. The trip underscores the strategic importance of bilateral and multilateral cooperation in the face of increasing geopolitical tensions and hybrid threats.

Scientists at the Swiss Light Source SLS have succeeded in mapping a piece of brain tissue in 3D at unprecedented resolution using X-rays – non-destructively. The breakthrough overcomes a long-standing technological barrier that had limited the use of X-rays for such studies. With the SLS upgrade now complete, the path lies open to imaging much larger samples of brain tissue at high resolution – and to gaining new understanding of its complex architecture. The study, a collaboration between Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and the Francis Crick Institute in the UK, is published in Nature Methods.

The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) has filed an indictment against an employee of the former Credit Suisse SA (referred to below as CS) on a charge of money laundering in connection with loans to Mozambican state-owned companies. The OAG also alleges that CS and its parent company, the Credit Suisse Group SA (referred to below as the Credit Suisse Group) and their successor companies UBS SA and the UBS Group SA failed to prevent the offence as a result of organisational deficiencies. The indictment focuses on the termination of a commercial relationship by CS and the resultant transfer abroad of funds believed to be of criminal origin, without CS or its parent company reporting a suspicious transaction to the Money Laundering Reporting Office Switzerland (MROS). The OAG has abandoned its criminal proceedings against another employee of the former CS.

You could be interested by new pages which have been published on the OFCOM website between 15.11.2025 and 30.11.2025.

Federal Councillor Martin Pfister, Head of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport, will visit Florennes Air Base in Belgium on 1 December. He will be accompanied by 12 members of the National CounciI and the Council of States. The purpose of the visit is to learn about the operational experience of the Belgian Air Force with the F-35A fighter jet. Mr Pfister will also attend the Swiss Defence Industry Day in Brussels with the aim of promoting Switzerland as an attractive location for the defence industry and raising the international profile of its technological expertise. While in Brussels, Mr Pfister will also meet NATO's secretary general, Mark Rutte.

The Federal Tax Administration has updated the course listings and bonus shares 2023, 2024 and 2025.

From 1 to 5 December, State Secretary for Education, Research and Innovation Martina Hirayama will undertake a science mission to San Francisco, Washington, D.C. and Boston. The purpose of the visit is to strengthen the excellent relations between Switzerland and the United States in education, research and innovation and to explore opportunities for future cooperation. The trip will also provide a platform for exchanging views on cooperation on vocational education and training and apprenticeships.

The Federal Office for Defence Procurement armasuisse is working together with the SWISS ASD (Aeronautics, Security and Defence) industry association, the Swiss Missions to NATO and the EU as well as the bilateral embassy in Brussels to organise the second “Swiss Defence Industry Day” on 1 December 2025. The event will be held at EFTA House in Brussels. The aim of the event is to establish and maintain international contacts and to promote Switzerland as an attractive location for the armament industry. National Armaments Director will make the trip to Belgium to attend the event.

Researchers from Empa, EPFL and CSEM have developed a green smart sensing tag that measures temperature and humidity in real time – and can also detect whether a temperature threshold has been exceeded. In future, this could be used to monitor sensitive shipments such as medicines or food. The sensor tag itself is completely biodegradable.