On the sidelines of Art Basel, Alain Berset presents the Swiss Art Awards 2023 and pays tribute to the winners of the Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim: the artist Uriel Orlow, the art historian Stanislaus von Moos and the collective Parity Group. Eleven art awards of 25,000 francs each are presented, […]
“Social justice for all”: for the first time, an ILO summit of heads of state and government is explicitly devoted to this cause. It takes place during the 111th International Labour Conference. At the Palais des Nations, Alain Berset speaks at the opening, after Director-General Gilbert F. Houngbo, whom he has met beforehand. “Technological transformation, […]
On Sunday morning, at the Bossard Arena, Alain Berset speaks at the official ceremony of the 31st Federal Yodelling Festival, before a choir of 300 yodellers. The festival, the first in six years because of the pandemic, draws some 210,000 visitors and more than 10,000 participants over three days. It is a Sunday of federal […]
At the invitation of Emmanuel Macron, some forty heads of state and government, mostly from the Global South, and 120 delegations seek to make the international financial system more sustainable and more social. Alain Berset represents Switzerland. The Swiss position: a global price on CO2, more transparency on climate risks in finance, better coordination of […]
The Federal Commission against Racism brings together more than 270 people at the Wankdorf in Berne to discuss the racism experienced by under-18s: at school, in sport and leisure, in the digital space. Alain Berset opens the day with the Commission’s President, Martine Brunschwig Graf. The message from the President of the Swiss Confederation: institutions […]
At the Kursaal in Berne, Alain Berset opens the National Conference Equality 2030 before more than 350 members of executives, politicians and specialists. It reviews the Gender Equality Strategy adopted by the Federal Council in 2021, focused this year on women’s economic independence. Women earn on average 18% less than men, or 1,500 francs a […]
For his last 1 August in government, Alain Berset gives three speeches. On the evening of 31 July, he opens the festivities in Aegerten, near Biel, at the invitation of the 9er-Club, in German and with a few words of Bärndütsch. On 1 August, he speaks in Domdidier, in his canton of Fribourg, then in […]
On 2 August, Alain Berset opens the Locarno Film Festival, the 76th, for the last time. It is also the last edition for Marco Solari, President since 2000. In the cloister of La Magistrale, he pretends to give a closing speech rather than an opening one. He praises Giona A. Nazzaro’s selection, a “2023 vintage” […]
Working visit to Colombia, a priority country for Swiss international cooperation. Switzerland supports the peace process with the ELN, alongside Germany, Sweden and Spain. On 8 August, Alain Berset tours the poor neighbourhoods of Buenaventura, a Pacific port where people displaced from the countryside flock. There he meets the Interethnic Truth Commission of the Pacific. […]
At Diedersdorf Castle, in Grossbeeren near Berlin, Alain Berset meets his counterparts from Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg: Hubertus Heil, Karl Lauterbach, Johannes Rauch, Manuel Frick. It is the 5th social affairs quintet and the 11th on health. On 21 August, the ministers of social affairs discuss the digitalisation of social insurance and cross-border coordination. […]
Alain Berset opens the 8th Numerik Games, the digital cultures festival of Yverdon-les-Bains, which grew out of the Maison d’Ailleurs. The festival, held from 25 to 27 August in the town centre, features a Lego exhibition this year. The speech is given at the official opening evening on Thursday 24 August, the day before the […]
Zurich Airport celebrates its 75th anniversary with a three-day festival, from 1 to 3 September. On the Friday evening, Alain Berset and Zurich Government Councillor Carmen Walker Späh speak at the opening ceremony. He opens with irony: he is not standing again for the Federal Council, but “Das ist also keine Bewerbung für eine Stelle […]
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