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Swiss media obsesses over local quality-of-life debates — a downsized Zurich festival, PFAS rules for farmers, anti-hooligan laws — while scanning the wider world with calm, analytical detachment. Politics is treated as competent administration, not crisis, with the F-35 scandal and a defence minister's 'heavy burden' the closest thing to drama.
  1. «Forever chemicals»: the Swiss Council of States gives farmers more time to prepare for stricter PFAS rules (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  2. Zürich's new city festival is revealing: the city once thought big, now it thinks small (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  3. Uniform professions across Europe: The European Union finally wants to make this possible, but associations are protesting. (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  4. The Züri-Fäscht, Zurich's triennial city festival, will return in 2029, but as a «decentralized» celebration away from the Lake Zurich basin, without fireworks and an air show (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  5. AI companies can save themselves the scare-mongering about the end of humanity (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  6. 'I'm not offended,' says Zurich cultural entrepreneur Darko Soolfrank. Yet for 25 years many in Zurich have turned up their noses – because he has found success with culture considered trashy (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  7. Documentary film 'Naza': Celebrated at the Venice Film Festival in Italy, branded as betrayal in Jerusalem (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  8. At the border where Ebola lurks, Dr. Kalanzi tries to stop the virus. But the local people say: 'We die here more from hunger than from Ebola' (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  9. The oil shock hits Switzerland less than other countries. But why is diesel becoming significantly more expensive than petrol? (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  10. Swiss Defence Minister Martin Pfister says the F-35 report is a 'heavy burden' for the Swiss Department of Defence (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  11. Swiss Federal Councillor Martin Pfister must scrutinize the Federal Department of Defence (VBS) down to the last corner (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  12. Blackstone President Stephen Schwarzman says: 'The market criers are calling for a global crisis – and then nothing happens' (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  13. Goodbye, dear kitty! Why grief over the loss of pets remains poorly understood. (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  14. Is artificial intelligence getting 'out of control'? The most important questions and answers on the global debate over AI safety. (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  15. The next phase of the aerial war over Ukraine has begun. (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  16. Zurich's Züri-Fäscht festival will return in 2029 — but as a new 'decentralized' celebration away from the lake basin and without fireworks. (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  17. Swiss professional referee Lukas Fähndrich on his newly created full-time profession: 'My energy level was at the limit' (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  18. The 'queen of the country' from the north: Manuela Schwesig, Minister-President of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, once supported Russian state gas company Gazprom; now she is campaigning against the right-wing AfD party. (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  19. Zurich's Züri-Fäscht festival returns — but now as a decentralized celebration away from the lake basin and without fireworks. (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)
  20. After Hormuz: Iran gains a second strait. (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 2026-09-15)