by Esther and Felix Bürge
(21 May 2021) The pressure on our farmers has been increasing for some time. Environmental and animal welfare requirements are constantly being adjusted and raised. At the same time, however, production prices are being pushed down and farmers are receiving less and less pay for their valuable work of providing the population with healthy food.
How Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz saved 50,000 lives
by Thomas Scherr
(25 May 2021) The example of Swiss diplomat Carl Lutz shows that one person can make a huge difference. Amid the atrocities and callousness of wartime Europe, this man risked his life to save thousands of Jews from certain death.
by Guy Mettan,* member of the initiative committee, Geneva
(3 May 2021) On February 25, 2020, the Federal Gazette published the text of the Swiss federal popular initiative entitled “Micro-tax on cashless Monetary Transactions", paving the way for the collection of signatures.
by Max Hugelshofer, Swiss Mountain Aid
(25 April 2021) What do you do when the village shop closes because the turnover figures are too low and the personnel costs are too high? Then, a step into the future is a necessary dare. In the village of Cerniat, the “Val-Marché” is now open 24 hours a day – with self-service and access via QR code.
by Luca Beti
(15 March 2021) Switzerland has been supporting the «ProJoven» vocational training project in Honduras since 2013 to help integrate underprivileged young people in the workforce. The project continues to forge ahead, Covid-19 notwithstanding, and has proved surprisingly adaptable.
“Abort the exercise”: This is what more and more politicians, trade unionists and even new business committees are calling for
by Niklaus Ramseyer
(24 January 2021) “Swiss Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis, Department of Foreign Affairs, must now find the reset button he wanted to press at the beginning of his term of office as soon as possible.” That's what the new president of the Swiss People’s Party (SVP) and Ticino national councillor Marco Chiesa said early this year in the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung about the draft institutional agreement between Switzerland and the EU. Chiesa's demand is only logical – and not new: His party was and is fundamentally opposed to the agreement.