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OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis, presented Switzerland’s priorities and guiding principles for its Chairpersonship to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly on the opening ceremony of its 33rd Annual Session in the The Hague, Netherlands.

Speech by Federal Councillor and OSCE Chairman-in-Office, Ignazio Cassis, at the 33rd OSCE Parliamentary annual meeting. The speech was given in French – Check against delivery

In Venezuela the death toll from the two powerful earthquakes continues to rise. The destruction is extensive. Having worked since last Friday to free people trapped in the rubble, Swiss Rescue personnel have concluded their mission and are returning home. Switzerland is continuing to provide emergency aid and is sending specialists from the Swiss Humanitarian Aid Unit to assist survivors.

Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) Ignazio Cassis is to visit the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 3 and 4 July 2026. There he will meet his Dutch counterpart Tom Berendsen. Later, he will deliver a speech in his capacity as chairman-in-office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to the organisation's Parliamentary Assembly. Further discussions are planned with the Dutch authorities and with OSCE Parliamentary Assembly bodies, as well as with the Swiss parliamentary delegation.

The Consumer Price Index (CPI) remained unchanged in June 2026 compared with the previous month, at 101.3 points (December 2025 = 100). Inflation was +0.5% compared with the same month of the previous year. These are the results of the Federal Statistical Office (FSO).

Continuing professional development (CPD) organisations provide services that create added value not only for their members, but for the entire continuing education and training sector. They inform the public about CPD topics and raise awareness of lifelong learning. They coordinate, promote new methods, build networks and contribute to quality assurance and quality improvement in continuing education and training. That is why the federal government supports the organisations financially: the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) provides financial assistance to CPD organisations on request. In 2020, the Swiss Federal Audit Office (SFAO) conducted an audit to determine whether CPD organisations use the federal financial assistance properly and whether SERI's supervision of CPD organisations is efficient and effective. That audit contained five recommendations, two of which have since been closed. In this follow-up audit, the SFAO assessed whether SERI has implemented the three remaining recommendations made at the time.

A new final report (aviation) is available on the website of the Swiss Transportation Safety Investigation Board STSB.

The Federal Department of Finance (FDF) intends to submit a report to the Federal Council by the end of 2027 on optimising Swiss financial market regulation. To support this work, a working group comprising external experts is being set up to ensure that the sectors concerned are involved.

You could be interested by new pages which have been published on the OFCOM website between 15.06.2026 and 30.06.2026.

From moors to settlements to forests – Switzerland’s characteristic landscapes are changing because of climate change, construction activities and afforestation. A new method developed by researchers at the WSL could make this visible in the future. By allowing characteristic landscape types to be recorded across Switzerland, it can thus serve as a basis for targeted landscape development.

On 30 June 2026, the Federal Department of Economic Affairs (EAER) has updated the document “Interpretative aid for sanction measures”. The modifications are visible in track changes mode.

On 22 June 2026, Swissmedic, together with the Federal Office for Customs and Border Security (FOCBS), and Swiss Sport Integrity (SSI) conducted a targeted campaign against illegally imported peptides. In the campaign, shipments suspected of containing illegally imported peptides or comparable substances were subjected to targeted checks. The findings showed that such products are increasingly ordered from unregulated online channels. These products are often unauthorised, with no guarantee of quality and pose considerable health risks.