During Art Basel, Alain Berset attends the presentation of the Swiss Art Awards and the Swiss Grand Award for Art / Prix Meret Oppenheim 2022 in Basel. Winners of the Grand Award: the painters Caroline Bachmann and Klodin Erb, and the engineers Jürg Conzett and Gianfranco Bronzini. In his speech, he sees art as an […]
Alain Berset hosts the Italian Minister of Health, Roberto Speranza, in Graubünden for two days of talks. On the agenda: taking stock of the Covid-19 crisis and the way ahead, the distribution of vaccines abroad through COVAX, monkeypox, strengthening the WHO, cost containment and the digitalisation of medical data. The two ministers visit the Rega […]
Alain Berset speaks at the official reception of the 56th Montreux Jazz Festival, back after a two-year absence, at the Montreux Palace, before more than 350 guests. Other speakers: State Councillor Nuria Gorrite, André Kudelski, Chairman of the Foundation Board, Mayor Olivier Gfeller and Director Mathieu Jaton. His speech starts from a remark by the […]
Alain Berset attends the opening of the Verbier Festival for the first time, its 29th edition, with a concert dedicated to peace in Ukraine, conducted by Gianandrea Noseda. On the programme: Valentin Silvestrov’s “Prayer for Ukraine” and Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony. From the stage, he speaks about music in the face of arbitrary power, from Hendrix […]
On the eve of 1 August, Alain Berset gives the National Day speech on the Europaplatz, in front of the KKL. He calls for constructive debate, as opposed to the permanent outrage of social media: “Dass wir uns raufen – und dann wieder zusammenraufen, hält die Schweiz zusammen.” The country’s strength, he says, lies as […]
On 1 August, Alain Berset gives the National Day speech in Stein am Rhein during the day, then in the evening in Bellerive, in the municipality of Vully-les-Lacs, on the shore of Lake Murten. Same theme as in Lucerne the day before: the culture of debate, respect for one’s opponent, the capacity for compromise. Speeches […]
On 3 August, on the Piazza Grande, Alain Berset opens the 75th Locarno Film Festival, with Marco Solari, President, and Giona A. Nazzaro, Artistic Director: “Locarno ist eine kulturelle Hauptstadt mit internationalem Renommee.” On 4 August, before the media, he presents the main lines of the Confederation’s cultural policy for 2025–2028: more flexible funding, the […]
On 25 August in Berne, Alain Berset addresses the Ambassadors’ Conference, held from 22 to 26 August in Pontresina and Berne on the war in Ukraine and its consequences for foreign policy. Speaking freely, in French, he outlines a “politics of crisis” inspired by Gaston Bachelard: sudden uncertainty, disruption, retreat, and only then the search […]
For the second year running, Alain Berset inaugurates the Numerik Games festival, devoted to digital cultures, in the courtyard of Yverdon-les-Bains Castle. The theme of the 2022 edition is music. Sources Canal Alpha, 26 August 2022
Three weeks before the vote of 25 September, Alain Berset defends the OASI 21 reform at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, at the invitation of the Vaud Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Swiss Employers’ Association and FER Genève. Some 400 opponents, mobilised by the left, the trade unions and the feminist […]
In the Grenette hall, Alain Berset opens the autumn assembly of the Cities’ Initiative for Social Policy, devoted to neighbourhoods as the key to social cohesion: “Only a mixed city is an innovative city. And a living city”. Speeches on this site Seules les villes où règne la mixité culturelle sont des villes vivantes (in […]
At the Octogone in Pully, Alain Berset attends the presentation of the Federal Office of Culture’s Swiss Music Awards. The Swiss Grand Award for Music goes to Yello, Dieter Meier and Boris Blank. Awards also go to Marina Viotti, Ripperton, the Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, Arthur Hnatek, Daniel Ott, Simone Keller and Fritz Hauser. […]
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