Section: Policy
What the new National Council reveals
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.
With the green wave, a new conservatism?
Liberalism and conservatism, two niches of the classical European right, are not the big losers of the federal elections. If you think about it, the ecological preoccupation now officially present among the population denotes a new form of conservatism and way of conceiving freedom, beyond the social and progressive dimension that characterizes this movement. A mutation of the great ideologies that brings great strengths, but also great risks. Analysis.
Mathieu Fabian Gauss, an ex-Green who became PBD
He is one of the few federal election candidates to have switched parties. How does one move from the ecologist Green Party to the bourgeois-democratic Party? Discussion.
The SVP censored again?
At the very end of last week, the YouTube company deleted a video by the Zurich SVP denouncing immigration to Switzerland and its consequences for security and welfare. On learning of the company's decision, the party immediately denounced it as censorship.
Has Eric Zemmour crossed the red line?
Lors de la «Convention de la droite» le samedi 28 septembre dernier, le polémiste français Eric Zemmour a tenu un discours que plus d'un a jugé raciste et islamophobe. A-t-il franchi la ligne rouge? Analyse point par point, sans morale à la petite semaine.
After the SVP, chaos
Faisons un petit effort d’imagination. Nous sommes le dimanche 20 octobre 2019. Depuis midi déjà, les résultats des premiers cantons affluent au compte-gouttes, certaines régions étant manifestement plus rapides que d’autres. Soudain, à la surprise générale et contrairement à ce que médias et experts clamaient depuis plusieurs mois, ce ne sont pas les partis écologistes qui affichent des scores surprenants; mais l’Union démocratique du centre! La carte de la Suisse passe au fur et à mesure de la journée à un vert presque uniforme, mais pas un vert clair. Celui-ci est bien plus foncé. Vers 19h30, au moment où le présentateur vedette de la Radio télévision suisse prend l’antenne, le constat est limpide: pour la première fois depuis 1919 et la fin du règne radical en Suisse, un parti obtient la majorité absolue tant au Conseil national qu’au Conseil des Etats, et ce parti est l’UDC.
The «climate generation»?
Les lundis de l'actualité - Clément Guntern L’actualité politique de ces derniers mois parle d’elle-même. Les récentes grèves pour le...
The false narratives of progressivism and nationalism
Enthusiasm: will you be nothing more than a wave of stupid emotions? Will you no longer kindle the fire of intelligence to spur us on to the discovery of our destiny? Modernity is over, and with it the great visions of the world it proposed. So what's left?
The president who wants to be as big as the ox
President of the Confederation Ueli Maurer will soon forget his latest media outbursts, particularly in the USA. A few weeks earlier, he was the target of criticism for his involvement in China's New Silk Roads project. Analysis.
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