Switzerland

“We cannot associate ourselves with NATO without becoming accomplices in NATO’s crimes”

GIPRI press release of 5 September 2024

(6 September 2024) The Geneva International Peace Research Institute (GIPRI) rejects the ‘’Security Policy Committee Report‘’ presented by Swiss President Viola Amherd on 29 August 2024.

This report is incompatible with Switzerland’s neutrality and must be rejected as contrary to the Swiss constitution and Swiss traditions of neutrality and mediation. Several organisations have already expressed similar views.

What if school authorities took an interest in children ...

by Suzette Sandoz,* Lausanne

(30 August 2024) According to today’s “24 heures” newspaper of 20 August, almost 1000 children in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland do not go to public schools but are taught by their parents. This number has more than doubled in the last seven years.

Do your parents have a solar heating?

Climate awareness test in Swiss textbooks

by Philipp Gut*

(23 August 2024) A Swiss primary school textbook subjects pupils to a climate attitude test. Miles away from any scientific basis.

No, cows are no climate killers

Anyone who advocates giving up meat to save the planet is making a mistake in their reasoning

by Klaus Alfs*

(16 August 2024) “Nobody seems to be interested anymore in the fact that it is modern, conventional agriculture and not organic farming that secures harvests and reliably feeds billions of people.” In his column, Klaus Alfs explains why the accusation that cows are climate killers is based on an error in reasoning.

Eroding neutrality also undermines international Geneva. Yet Geneva remains silent …

by Guy Mettan,* Geneva

(9 August 2024) By adopting unilateral U.S.-European sanctions against Russia in February 2022, even though it had always claimed that it would only apply sanctions endorsed by the United Nations and enshrined in international law, the Swiss government has dealt a heavy blow to neutrality and international Geneva. But in Geneva, nobody flinched. And here are the reasons why.

On Swiss neutrality

Swiss Government opens the debate on the “Neutrality Initiative” with a lie

by Christoph Pfluger,* Solothurn

Dear readers

What many people don’t know: Neutrality is part of Switzerland’s DNA. But it is not enshrined in the constitution.

This is why Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis was able to throw it overboard at the end of February 2022 without a Swiss government decision, without a parliamentary decision and without a referendum.