Alain Berset

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic will be in the US from September 18 through 22 for the 78th UN General Assembly session in New York.

More than $68 billion was withdrawn from Credit Suisse in the first three months of 2023, the bank said Monday in what are likely its final quarterly results before it is swallowed by rival UBS.    

Switzerland's long-time second largest bank saw 61.2 billion Swiss francs ($68.6 billion) withdrawn in the first quarter alone.    

Banking giant UBS is buying troubled rival Credit Suisse for almost $3.25 billion, in a deal orchestrated by regulators to stave off further market-shaking turmoil in the global banking system.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (r) is seen with Swiss President Alain Berset (l) and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev at an international conference in Palermo aiming to explore a new UN roadmap for Libya. [Igor Petyx/EPA]

President Alain Berset has said Switzerland will lift restrictions next year on Romanians and Bulgarians who want to work in the country. Berset said on Thursday in Bucharest that the current limits imposed on Romanian and Bulgarian workers will end next May, RT reports.

President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday welcomed the fact that after May 2019 there will be no restrictions on the Swiss labour market on Romanian citizens seeking employment there.

Iohannis welcomed his Swiss counterpart Alain Berset at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace.

President Klaus Iohannis will welcome on Thursday at the Cotroceni Presidential Palace President of the Swiss Confederation Alain Berset, who is paying an official visit to Romania.

It which focuses on free trade benefits at a time when a large number of countries advocate protectionism, the Serbian government announced.

In an introductory address to the guests, Michael Bloomberg stressed the importance of linking in business and said that today, more than ever, it is crucial to build bridges, not walls.

Relations between Romania and Switzerland are showing a positive dynamic and the bilateral political dialogue has intensified over the last year, with the trade between the two countries expanding in the first four months of 2018 and the bilateral trade balance favouring Romania for the first time since 1990, Romania's ambassador to Switerland Vlad Vasiliu told AGERPRES in a recent inte

The delegation will include First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic, the government announced on Friday.