Switzerland

Faced with «Charlie Hebdo» or Jacques Baud, an illiberal Switzerland

By Jonas Follonier · March 13, 2026

The Alpine Republic likes to think of itself as a model of liberalism. Yet, between the complaint against a French satirist and the government's silence in the face of European sanctions against Jacques Baud, the country is failing the test of defending freedom.

World

«Le Regard Libre» in the United States

By Jonas Follonier · November 14, 2025

Traveling through eight American states, four of our media editors explored what the USA and Switzerland, sister republics with cross-fertilizing democratic influences, still have to say to each other at a time of trade war launched by Donald Trump