At LAC Lugano, as part of FIT – Festival Internazionale del Teatro, the Federal Office of Culture presents the Swiss Performing Arts Awards. The Grand Award / Hans Reinhart Ring goes to the choreographer Cindy Van Acker. Among the other winners: Circus Monti, the Tellspiele Altdorf, Bruno Cathomas, Tiziana Conte; the dance award to Ruth […]
CERN inaugurates its Science Gateway, a centre for science education and outreach designed by Renzo Piano. The building cost about 100 million francs, entirely funded by donations; the Stellantis Foundation gave 45 million. It opens to the public the following day, free of charge. Ministers and senior representatives of the member and associate member states […]
At the National Library in Berne, Alain Berset receives 24 winners of the 2023 national competition of the Swiss Youth in Science Foundation (Schweizer Jugend forscht). After the presentation of two award-winning projects, he answers their questions: “Wir müssen alles dafür tun, dass junge Forscherinnen und Forscher hier in der Schweiz beste Bedingungen vorfinden.” He […]
At the head of a Federal Council delegation, Alain Berset receives the President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, in Berne, on an official visit on 18 and 19 October. He had invited her. The day before, in Chișinău, Ignazio Cassis announced a new package of Swiss aid to the Moldova Support Platform. The […]
At the Oxford Union, Alain Berset gives a lecture entitled “The role of Switzerland in a fractured world”, followed by a dialogue and questions from some hundred students. He then meets Swiss students and teachers at the university. In an interview given the same day to swissinfo.ch, he looks back on the year: the pandemic, […]
At Le Nouveau Monde in Fribourg, Alain Berset, President of the Swiss Confederation, is the guest of a special edition of “Le grand soir” on RTS La Première: nearly three hours of radio. Alongside him: Zoé Më, Pablo, Flavien Droux, Rana Bassil, Léa Romanens, Thierry Jobin, Christophe Tiberghien, Roxanne Ischi, Véronique Reymond, Stéphanie Chuat, Mathieu […]
Switzerland is guest of honour at the 29th Cinemania, Montreal’s French-language film festival. Alain Berset opens it on 1 November at the Cinéma Impérial, before Cédric Kahn’s “Le Procès Goldman”. He greets the Canadian-Swiss director Léa Pool, a “witness” to the agreement he has come to sign: it will be initialled “with a clear and […]
On the morning of 9 November, Pope Francis receives Alain Berset in private audience at the Apostolic Palace. According to the Federal Council, the talks cover the commitment of Switzerland and the Holy See to peace, the Middle East and Ukraine, and the study of abuse in the Catholic Church in Switzerland. He then meets […]
Arriving from the Vatican, Alain Berset attends the 42nd UNESCO General Conference on 9 November. He holds talks with the Director-General, Audrey Azoulay, and takes part in a panel on climate and biodiversity. In the evening, Emmanuel Macron receives the heads of state and government attending the Paris Peace Forum at the Élysée. On 10 […]
At the 3rd Life Sciences Cluster Forum of the Handelskammer beider Basel, “Zusammenarbeit als Schlüssel für ein nachhaltiges digitales Gesundheitswesen”, in the Gehry auditorium on the Novartis campus, Alain Berset speaks after the welcome by the Chamber’s President, National Councillor Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter, and a presentation by Ann Aerts of the Novartis Foundation. He talks about […]
The full Federal Council welcomes Emmanuel Macron and Brigitte Macron on the Bundesplatz, with military honours. Alain Berset gives the welcome speech in the Hall of the Federal Palace. He starts from Jean-Luc Godard, “Solitude is not isolation”, traces Switzerland’s political debt to France, from 1798 to 1848, and concludes: “Our world is bleeding.” The […]
Alain Berset and the head of the FDFA, Ignazio Cassis, receive Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Berne for a courtesy visit. The initiative came from Budapest. On the agenda: bilateral relations, Hungary as a beneficiary of the Swiss cohesion contribution (vocational training, research, innovation), the Hungarian presidency of the Council of the EU in […]
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