The results of this autumn's federal elections are a cause for celebration or sadness, depending on one's sensibilities. However, we can...
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.
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.
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.
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.
Les lundis de l'actualité - Clément Guntern The political news of recent months speaks for itself. The recent strikes over the...
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.
The wealthiest, like every minority, are threatened in their fundamental rights, in this case that of private property, which nothing can justify.
The book «La suite des idées», published by Editions Favre last March, could be seen as a simple political dialogue between two leading liberal-radical personalities from the Valais, one a former President of the Confederation, the other a National Councillor. The book is much more than that: it offers genuine, practical reflections on liberalism. It gives a good idea of the burning questions that this family of thought cannot ignore, at a time when the individual, merit and responsibility are being called into question. Pascal Couchepin opens the doors of his office in Martigny, where he and Philippe Nantermod discussed a wide range of topics.
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