Section: Policy
Towards an irreconcilable Switzerland
The results of this autumn's federal elections are a cause for celebration or sadness, depending on one's sensibilities. However, we can...
Looking back on 2010: is the glass half-full or half-empty?
Rester attentif aux progrès de l'humanité
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.
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