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Those who want to spare children from everything are not doing them any favour

by Allan Guggenbühl*

(19 December 2025) Many parents put their children at the centre of their lives and make no demands of them. But growing up also involves frustration, challenges – and learning to overcome them.

“Sleeping in on Monday morning is a human right!” the teenager declares defiantly. He is outraged that his teacher expects him to be at work at seven o’clock after the weekend. On Monday morning, he needs to recover from the weekend! Getting up early is impossible!

Federal Bern bows to Brussels officials

New law to allow platforms to be blocked

by Michael Straumann*

(12 December 2025) Around half of the Swiss population has turned its back on traditional media. This is shown by the new Quality of Media Yearbook published by the University of Zurich: 46 per cent are now considered “news deprived” — people who hardly ever consume news and, if they do, only via social media.1 This is a historic high.
Switzerland–EU

Who do the cantonal representatives actually represent?

by Lukas Leuzinger*

(12 December 2025) When Switzerland debated its first federal constitution in 1848, centralists and federalists were at loggerheads: the former wanted to completely break the power of the cantons, while the latter wanted to maintain the existing loose confederation of states based on the principle of “one canton, one vote”. In the end, a compromise was reached: a parliament with two chambers.

On the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza

Can the Trump administration’s 20-point plan improve the situation of the Palestinian population in Gaza?

by Georg Koch, editorial team “Swiss Standpoint”

(12 December 2025) Will the UN Security Council resolution of 17 November 2025 and the Trump administration’s 20-point plan approved by it improve the situation of the Palestinian population in Gaza?

Who has taken control of defining schools?

The consequences are devastating. Carl Bossard calls for a change.

by Beat Schaller, Sichtweisenschweiz.ch

(12 December 2025) What is taught in schools and how it is taught is now determined by a small circle of educators: bureaucratically isolated, academically aloof and largely disconnected from the reality of school life.

The consequences are devastating for teachers, pupils, parents, the economy and society.

In a thought-provoking interview, Carl Bossard* shows who is challenged, what works and how the educational shift for 21st-century schools can be achieved – astutely, expertly and conclusively.

The EU has no money but wants to continue the war

from “Hungary Today”

(5 December 2025) (CH-S) The Hungarian government is appalled by the proposals made by some of its colleagues at the EU summit on 24 November regarding the US administration’s peace efforts in the Ukraine war. It states: “We are not prepared to mortgage our grandchildren’s future to finance a war in Ukraine that cannot be won.”

What is going on with the European Union? Directly from Hungary, contrary to the mainstream in our media.