Switzerland

Credit Suisse session: «distrust» and «distressing spectacle»

By Max Frei · 15 April 2023

After two days of extraordinary session, Parliament has issued a symbolic rejection of the Federal Council's rescue plan for Crédit Suisse. This decision has no direct impact, but it does reveal certain issues, as pointed out by the press on Thursday.

Policy

No, lobbies do not threaten democracy

By Jonas Follonier · January 14, 2023

Avec les récentes élections au Conseil fédéral, la question est revenue sur le devant de la scène politique: les lobbys...

Literature

«Like an empire within an empire», a tale of forgotten realities, against the times

By Diana-Alice Ramsauer · September 29, 2020

A hopeless pamphlet and a sharp pencil.

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.

World

Venezuela's sovereignty over its people

By Clément Guntern · January 28, 2019

Les lundis de l'actualité - Clément Guntern Les opposants au régime de Nicolas Maduro attendaient depuis longtemps que le président...

Switzerland

Philippe Nantermod, 31, will be going to Bern: «I have a liberal vision of Switzerland».»

By Jonas Follonier · November 15, 2015

Le Valaisan Philippe Nantermod accède au Conseil national à l’âge de 31 ans. Son élection, le Chablaisien Philippe Nantermod la...

Switzerland

What about the federal elections?

By Sébastien Oreiller · October 15, 2015

Le 18 octobre est passé, le deuxième tour pour le Conseil aux Etats se fait attendre. Pourtant, la scène politique...