February 2: Welcome to the EU (pronounced "Eewwww!")! Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission, greets Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga in Brussels.
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February 25: Some of the 1,500 inhabitants of Giffers in canton Fribourg. They were attending an information event for a federal asylum centre which will be built in their community and which from 2017 will house up to 300 asylum seekers. They weren't happy that they had had no say in the matter.
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March 20: Viewing a partial solar eclipse in Zurich.
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April 8: Protestors complain about racial profiling and police checks in the Autonomous School Zurich, an educational and cultural centre for everyone, including undocumented refugees.
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April 11: HC Davos celebrate winning the Swiss ice hockey championship.
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April 15: Passing out ceremony: a Swiss soldier faints during a state visit to Bern by French President François Hollande.
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May 3: "I vote that we hold our next vote indoors." The cantonal government of canton Appenzell Inner Rhoden – and other residents – gather in the main square for the annual open-air assembly.
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June 16: Art Basel
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June 2: Who’s next? The empty chair of Sepp Blatter, the discredited president of world football's governing body FIFA, before a news conference in Zurich. On December 21, Blatter was banned from football for eight years by FIFA’s ethics court for a controversial payment. He is appealing the decision.
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June 14: Water in all directions at Kradolf, canton Thurgau.
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June 20: A police check at a border post in Chiasso, canton Ticino.
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July, August, September: Switzerland enjoyed a summer of constant sunshine. Apart from at night.
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July 14: A light trail up the Matterhorn celebrates exactly 150 years since the iconic Swiss mountain was first climbed.
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July 4: Heatwaves: a motorway in canton St Gallen feels the effects of the fantastic summer.
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August 11: What looks like a film or theatre set is in fact the Rhône glacier in canton Valais wrapped in tarpaulins in an attempt to slow down the melting of the ice.
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September 3: A state visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel to Bern.
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October 10: A week before parliamentary elections, a poster for a candidate can be seen on the side of a barn in canton Bern.
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December 9: Out with the old, in with the less old. The seven-person Swiss cabinet got a new face when Guy Parmelin replaced Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, who retired. The rightwing Swiss People's Party thus gained a second seat. (AFP)
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That's all folks! 2015 saw the last appearance by an elephant at Circus Knie, Switzerland's national circus.
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A year to remember for some (sun-worshippers), a year to forget for others (everyone at FIFA). swissinfo.ch looks back at some of the most memorable images from the past 12 months.
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Born in London, Thomas was a journalist at The Independent before moving to Bern in 2005. He speaks all three official Swiss languages and enjoys travelling the country and practising them, above all in pubs, restaurants and gelaterias.
The bad news is that, despite the recent climate treaty in Paris, greenhouse gas emissions, temperatures and sea levels continue to rise; the good news – we’re scraping around here – is that extreme weather conditions make great photos…
After a lousy summer last year, Switzerland enjoyed three months of almost cloudless skies in 2015. People hiked, biked, swam – or just sizzled. Infrastructure and glaciers also sizzled, forcing the authorities to come up with innovative solutions. But don’t worry: there was plenty of rain too.
Sepp Blatter must have felt like a black cloud was following him around all year. Hardly a day seemed to go by without the now suspended president of world football’s discredited governing body denying involvement in new allegations of corruption. One would think 2016 couldn’t get any worse for Blatter, but with multiple investigations continuing, the final whistle is nowhere to be seen.
(Images: Keystone; text: Thomas Stephens/swissinfo.ch; picture editor: Ester Unterfinger/swissinfo.ch)
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