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by Suzette Sandoz,* Lausanne
(16 May 2023) This news, the subject of a press release dated 5 May 2023 and mentioned by the French-speaking Swiss television RTS in the evening journal, makes one wonder and deserves an open discussion. However, it seems to have gone almost unnoticed.
by Guy Mettan,* Geneva
(16 May 2023) What to do when the law is bent and is no longer the “law”? For the last 15 years or so, there has been a strong tendency to bend the law – international law, commercial law, and the higher law of nation states – in favour of interests that no longer have anything to do with justice and fairness.
by The Cradle (News Desk)
(16 May 2023= As Global South nations continue to ditch the US dollar for trade, BRICS officials have said the bloc is working on developing a new currency.
by Alain Pichard,* Switzerland
(11 May 2023) (Edit.) Cantonal governments and authorities draft strategy papers that practitioners in schools have to implement. Often, the planners have no idea about the lives of the schoolchildren they want to delight with their educational programmes. This is the case throughout the German-speaking world. Alain Pichard describes such a process using the example of a nutrition education programme in the city of Biel.
by M. K. Bhadrakumar,* India
(10 May 2023) The worst-case scenario is coming to pass, apparently, in Sudan. That is, at any rate, the apocalyptic message streaming out of Khartoum in the western media.
President Biden lent credence to the alarmist perception by confirming that on his orders, the US military conducted an operation “to extract government personnel from Khartoum”.
by Peter Hänseler*
(9 May 2023) Switzerland is changing its stance on neutrality and legal security at lightning speed to please the EU and the USA. This attitude endangers the foundation on which Switzerland stands. This article looks at Switzerland from the outside.