📢 The Swiss Business Hub UK is looking for a new SME Internationalisation Consultant and Deputy Head
🗓️ If you understand the needs of Swiss SMEs and are keen to foster 🇨🇭🇬🇧 business ties, apply by 2 June 2024 👇
In 1919,
#Swiss
chocolatier Fritz Bützer opened the 1st
@Bettys
Café in Harrogate with high-quality products, live music & courteous service. Great to enjoy Afternoon Tea in York for which Betty’s is still famous. Fantastic example of historic🇨🇭-🇬🇧 business relations.
With over 165,000 bee colonies and 17,500 beekeepers, it’s fair to say Switzerland is buzzing for
#WorldBeeDay
!
Check out some more sweet facts about bees in Switzerland 🐝👇
This week, UK representatives joined us in Switzerland for a three-day
#DigitalTrade
and customs tour.
Along with discovering more about Switzerland’s ambitious
#DaziT
and
#Passar
digitisation programmes, the delegates also met a key member of the 🇨🇭 canine customs team 🐶
It’s one week since
#Nemo
won the
#Eurovision
crown 👑🇨🇭
Feeling nostalgic already? Check out “The Code” with the backing of the Biel Solothurn symphony orchestra.
(You may recognise their outfit from another famous Swiss Eurovision moment…)
This week the Embassy team put on our comfortable shoes and got moving for
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
.
We had team bike rides, runs, zumba, yoga, meditation and even a walk in Hyde Park to see Spring in bloom. Thanks to everyone who got involved!
#MiddleEast
| 🇨🇭 is very concerned about a large-scale military offensive in
#Rafah
, which would have serious humanitarian consequences.
All parties must immediately work towards a
#ceasefire
and the release of all hostages.
#HumanitarianAid
must reach all civilians in need.
The Embassy will be closed on Monday 20th May.
For urgent consular assistance, please call the FDFA Helpline on +41 800 24-7-365 / +41 58 465 33 33 or Skype: helpline-eda.
We will be back open on Tuesday 21st May.
Hydropower is Switzerland’s most important source of
#renewable
energy 💧
The first Swiss
#hydropower
plant was installed in 1879 to light the dining room of a St. Moritz hotel
Today, there are almost 700 plants with a capacity of at least 300 kilowatts 🌊
From Berne to Birmingham – Florian Schütz, Director of Switzerland’s National Cyber Security Centre, is attending two key events in the UK this week.
Find out how the visit will strengthen international cooperation on
#CyberSecurity
👇
Welcome to the show, let everybody know 🎙️🎶
What a night for
#Nemo
!
@swedeninuk
how about we make it double or quits for
#Eurovision2025
in Switzerland? 💃🇨🇭🕺
At the end of 2023, the population of
#Switzerland
stood at just over 8,960,800
The Swiss town that has seen the biggest population growth in the last decade?
#Zurich