Literature

Telling the story of Switzerland in the city and in the country

By Sandrine Rovere · 25 April 2023

In «Faire paysan», Blaise Hofmann from the Vaud region sets out to understand the ever-widening gap between the urban population and farmers. 

Switzerland

Regardless of the SVP's rhetoric, rural resentment exists

By Jonas Follonier · October 11, 2021

The SVP has seized on a real phenomenon

Switzerland

The center-periphery divide: Switzerland's eternal problem

By Clément Guntern · April 27, 2020

Le mythe paysager des urbains

Policy

The Joker, representative of our political distances

By Jonas Follonier · 10 April 2020

Le personnage du Joker, outre ce qu’il donne à réfléchir sur le plan cinématographique comme sur le plan philosophique, est...

Switzerland

Rural-urban divide: a solution inspired by the Bernese Jura?

By Robin Parisi · February 17, 2020

Ce dimanche 9 février, une nouvelle votation était enterrée, non par le Röstigraben qui se trouve d’ailleurs être une notion...

Switzerland

Towards an irreconcilable Switzerland

By Clément Guntern · 04 January 2020

On peut se réjouir ou s’attrister des résultats des élections fédérales de cet automne, selon ses sensibilités. Cependant, on peut...

Switzerland

What the new National Council reveals

By Jérémie Bongiovanni · October 28, 2019

The run-up to the federal elections did not offer much in the way of substantive debate. Ecology was omnipresent, overshadowing issues such as Europe, old-age provision and health insurance. In contrast to the upstream campaign, the results are very interesting: the left does not represent the workers it wants to defend, and the divide between town and country has been consummated.

Society

#jesuismaurice

By Jonas Follonier · September 12, 2019

The case caused quite a stir in the Kingdom of France. It's the story of Maurice the rooster, whose early-morning squawk annoyed a retired couple.

France

The «gilets jaunes»: some thoughts

By Jonas Follonier · January 26, 2019

The «yellow vests» have the merit of raising an essential question: that of the place of peripheral regions in the concerns of the French government.