The Socialist National Councillor and President of the Swiss Union of Trade Unions (USS) paints an uncompromising portrait of the country's current situation and its recent past: institutions, the social question, the state of the left... everything is covered.
Green mayor Franziska Teuscher has been fighting for the legalization of cannabis in the Swiss capital since 2016. The pilot project she supports has long been delayed for lack of a legal basis. But things have taken a new turn in recent months.
In the end, Switzerland will spend another two years considering how to regulate cannabis. Maxime Mellina, head of training at the Groupement romand d'étude des addictions, compares foreign experiences with the Swiss paradigm.
Saïda Keller-Messahli is one of the leading figures in the fight against political Islam in Switzerland and Europe in general. The Zurich-born woman of Tunisian origin has decided to run for the National Council on an independent ticket. She tells us more.
The «Fair lesen» event in German-speaking Switzerland highlights the role of women in the literary world. The symposium, which receives substantial public funding, calls for the introduction of quotas.
Pragmatism in politics, well regarded in Switzerland, obviously has its good points. But it also has its risks. And these are devious. Editorial by Jonas Follonier
The history of Swiss political parties is rich and complex. However, it reveals a certain continuity through which they learn to renew themselves as direct democracy, and the evolution of society it often reflects, impose new themes on their agendas.
Systemic racism« is rife in Switzerland. At least, that's the view of the Swiss Confederation, which has published a report on the subject. According to Olivier Delacrétaz, editor of »La Nation«, the effects of this postulate, which is not based on any evidence, could be counter-productive.
Inherited from the era of great power struggles in the 19th century, neutrality helped Switzerland through the wars of the following century. Since then, however, the country has failed to establish a new doctrinaire basis for its foreign policy.
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