«Immigration» Report, Clément Guntern | Trends in the number of permanent residents, the proportion of people of foreign origin among them, the countries most represented by migrants, the success rate of naturalization processes, integration indices... Here is an overview of immigration in Switzerland and its distinctive features in an international comparison.
Unpublished article - Marco Polli On January 13, French sociologist Ugo Palheta...
Le Regard Libre No. 80 | In this op-ed, actor and director Marco Polli puts the recent controversies over spelling and inclusive writing into perspective over the past fifty years. The former president of the Geneva Secondary School Teachers’ Union and the Modern Languages Commission condemns what he sees as the various steps that have led to the current state of schools in Switzerland. Namely, a situation where one in five students is illiterate by the age of 15. The former teacher then proposes a way forward.
It seems to be a foregone conclusion: if Switzerland’s political system did not include the tool of federalism, the management of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Interview with Jean-Pierre Siggen
Jean Romain, Marc Bonnant, Monique Rey...
Like Pandora's box, the question of the Covid certificate, once opened, unleashes a multitude of complex themes that question our relationship to authority. It also reveals that modern thinking has yet to mature with regard to the difficult question of the dividing line between the public and private spheres, which 19th-century liberals had highlighted in their writings. By way of example, the media and the general public talk about the majority and the minority, without realizing that the latter is actually threatened in this new episode of the Covid certificate in the pandemic soap opera. Indeed, non-vaccinators will soon be considered persona non grata in the public arena, which is reminiscent of the mechanisms of social stigmatization, particularly tragic in the case of the Covid certificate.
The SVP has seized on a real phenomenon
ARTICLE LONG FORMAT, Antoine Bernhard | Fifty years after the arrival of women's suffrage in Switzerland, the Socialists want to extend it across the board to foreigners living in the country. In January, the party tabled a parliamentary intervention and launched an online petition to promote the «right to vote for all». With this demagogic operation, the SP is revealing its revolutionary nature and demonstrating that it is often the enemy of the people. Analysis.