Archives
The archives bring together the speeches and documents of Alain Berset’s previous offices — member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2012 to 2023, President of the Swiss Confederation in 2018 and 2023. Only the speeches that were published by the Swiss Confederation (admin.ch) appear here — not unpublished remarks. Each speech is reproduced in its original language, with the original document as a PDF.
Published speeches as a member of the Federal Council
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Video documents
BBC News — interview with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, from Washington
25 September 2026 — Washington D.C. · 5 min
Churchill Symposium 2026 — “From Zurich to Strasbourg”, lecture by the Secretary General of the Council of Europe
16 September 2026 — Zurich · 1 h 14
Riga Conference 2026 — a conversation with the Secretary General of the Council of Europe
10 September 2026 — Riga · 21 min
Other documents
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12 years in the Swiss Federal Council
Record at the Federal Department of Home Affairs (2012-2023)December 2023 — Berne · The official review of Alain Berset’s twelve years at the head of the Federal Department of Home Affairs, published by the department at the end of his term. Health, pensions, the pandemic, culture, equality, statistics, meteorology: ten fields, twenty-nine pages, hard figures. The commentary is in French; the document itself is available as a French PDF and a German PDF.
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Royalty-free photos
Official portraits, 2023. Free to use for any purpose — press, publications, web — on one condition: credit the photographer, © Anoush Abrar.
Download in high definition (JPEG, 6000 × 4000 px, 6 MB) · web version (2250 px)
Download in high definition (JPEG, 6000 × 4000 px, 7 MB) · web version (2250 px)
Other contributions
Section in preparation.