The WTO and the Pacific Islands Forum on November18, 2022, affirmed continuing cooperation on fisheries subsidies and other key issues. WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, meeting with Pacific Islands ministers in … More Negotiations on Fisheries Subsidies: WTO, Pacific Islands affirm cooperation for work on fisheries subsidies and key issues

18/11/2022 Investing in research and innovation is investing in Europe’s future. Business innovation relates to the wide range of activities that enterprises undertake to implement innovation processes, develop new goods … More More than half of EU businesses innovate

Bern, 18.11.2022 – Moderna Switzerland GmbH has submitted an application to Swissmedic for authorisation of a further bivalent COVID-19 vaccine. The ready-to-use dispersion for injection contains both messenger RNA (mRNA) from the original … More Moderna applies to Swissmedic for authorisation of a second bivalent COVID-19 vaccine

Bern, 18.11.2022 – The arrangement for exchanging Ukrainian banknotes for Swiss francs at selected bank branches in Switzerland, which was introduced at the end of June 2022, will be discontinued with effect from … More Ukraine: Cash exchange to be discontinued in Switzerland

Civil society representatives from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Fiji, Nigeria, Pakistan and the Philippines have been appointed as ambassadors of the first-ever World Trade Congress on Gender, a … More WTO: WOMEN AND TRADE Five gender equality advocates chosen as ambassadors of the World Trade Congress on Gender

The Commission welcomes the political agreement reached today between the European Parliament and EU Member States on the Union Secure Connectivity Programme 2023-2027 with a budget of EUR 2.4 billion. … More EU Commission welcomes political agreement to launch IRIS², the Union’s Secure Connectivity Programme