Switzerland

Seven underestimated facts about old age

By Max Frei · 05 January 2025

Seniors are a diverse group whose average characteristics are often misunderstood. Describing this category of the population more accurately is all the more urgent given that it now spans almost four decades.

Switzerland

2024, a mess for Swiss health and pension policy

By Darius Farman · December 23, 2024

Demographic realities have been largely absent from the political debates on pensions and healthcare costs over the past year. It's time to renew our welfare state on the basis of a coherent, long-term vision.

Society

The weaker sex, in demography, is the man

By Yan Greppin · October 17, 2024

What if gender disparities weren't always to women's disadvantage? Demographics offer a very different picture of reality from that proposed by a sociology under high ideological pressure. Here's a ten-point overview.

World

The Chinese world empire: a thwarted ambition?

By Clément Guntern · September 27, 2021

LONG-FORM ANALYSIS, Clément Guntern | Despite its image as a rising power and its grand ambitions, China’s plan to build a global empire is likely to face numerous obstacles. Corruption, an aging population, slowing growth... Here are the reasons why the road ahead is far from clear for Beijing.

World

Pascal Couchepin's reading: «Le Choc démographique» (The demographic shock)»

By Pascal Couchepin · 04 March 2021

Building the future on facts

World

Continent of hope, continent of fear

By Clément Guntern · September 02, 2020

At a time when Africa is still experiencing record levels of poverty, a different future could be emerging. Often torn between confidence and pessimism, the international community must realize the limits of its action and redirect it towards other priorities.

Films

«Avengers: Infinity War», a blockbuster with a sense of humor

By Loris S. Musumeci · May 02, 2018

Movie Wednesdays – Loris S. Musumeci «The scales of the universe tip toward balance.» Thanos is the villain....