Economy

What can we say about protectionism?

By Antoine-Frédéric Bernhard · November 17, 2025

Protectionism is often denounced as the natural enemy of prosperity, and lends itself to caricature. When...

World

Behind the notion of sovereignty, the end of naivety

By Clément Guntern · December 10, 2020

The year 2020, in addition to having seen a pandemic of immeasurable impact, has marked the return, or rather the rebirth, of a notion that was once thought to be obsolete, unsuitable and even dangerous: that of sovereignty. In the space of a few months, the issue has once again become central. But an anachronistic vocabulary tends to overshadow what is really at stake: not the withdrawal of nations into themselves, but the pursuit of balanced regulation of globalization.

World

Sovereignists must be taken seriously

By Clément Guntern · May 28, 2018

Le Regard Libre N° 38 - Clément Guntern The recent advance of ’far-right« parties in Europe...

Economy

Switzerland's elites, from the 20th century to the present day

By Nicolas Jutzet · November 11, 2017

Le Regard Libre N° 33 - Nicolas Jutzet Longtemps terre d’émigration, la Suisse, dans sa forme moderne, a su devenir...

Economy

Ah! shopping tourism

By Nicolas Jutzet · December 12, 2015

Ah, shopping tourism, that controversial subject par excellence, especially in cantons sharing a border with a neighboring country. Arguments are rife, debates are tense. So, Doctor, how bad is it?