At the Alpine Museum, Alain Berset brings together parliamentarians and cultural players on the coronavirus crisis and the Culture Dispatch 2021-2024. Why the Alps? “In Zeiten der Verunsicherung suchen wir Halt bei den Alpen.” And can the Réduit be aired? The FOPH is looking into it, he jokes. Then the figures: according to a Federal […]
Ueli Maurer and Alain Berset take part in the joint videoconference of G20 finance and health ministers, convened by the Saudi presidency. Working basis: a WHO analysis of the gaps in pandemic preparedness. Switzerland reaffirms the central role of the WHO, stresses the close collaboration between its finance and home affairs departments during the crisis […]
In Lausanne, Alain Berset presents the Swiss Music Awards; the Grand Award goes to the singer and performer Erika Stucky. He greets the “friends of jazz and yodel, friends of the accordion and the shovel”. He lists dates that marked the history of music, from Mozart’s first symphony in The Hague to the first jazz […]
The President of the Confederation, Simonetta Sommaruga, receives Sebastian Kurz on an official visit. Alain Berset and Ueli Maurer join the lunch at the Lohn country residence. On the agenda: management of the pandemic, climate, bilateral relations, European policy. The two countries welcome their cooperation in the spring, notably to repatriate their nationals stranded abroad. […]
Alain Berset opens the 16th Zurich Film Festival, in the hall and then at the Corso cinema, “als Gesundheitsminister und als Kulturminister”. The audience present, he says, belongs to the 58% who do not want to wait until next year to return to a cultural event. The message of the evening: “Das Virus prägt unseren […]
The pandemic prevents the third UN World Data Forum from being held in Berne; it takes place online, and the in-person version is postponed to 2021. Alain Berset opens it with a pre-recorded statement. He starts from the Charter of the United Nations, 75 years earlier, and its promise to “promote social progress and better […]
The second wave is accelerating. The Federal Council adopts measures valid throughout the country: closure of nightclubs, bars and restaurants closing at 11 p.m., a ban on events of more than 50 people and on amateur sports and cultural activities of more than 15 people, wider mandatory mask-wearing. It introduces rapid tests and revises quarantine […]
At the invitation of the German Presidency of the Council of the EU, Alain Berset takes part in the videoconference of European equality ministers, devoted to domestic violence and violence against women during the pandemic. He presents the Swiss measures, including the task force against domestic violence set up in March by the Confederation and […]
At the invitation of Olivier Véran, Alain Berset takes part in a virtual meeting on COVID-19 vaccination strategies, with Salvador Illa (Spain), Roberto Speranza (Italy) and representatives of Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. He presents the Swiss vaccination strategy and the state of preparations. The joint declaration stresses cooperation and mutual information, particularly on […]
Infections very high and rising again, hospitals overloaded for weeks, the holidays approaching. After consulting the cantons, the Federal Council closes restaurants and cultural, sports and leisure facilities from 22 December. The measures run until 22 January 2021. The aim is to reduce contacts sharply. Sources Federal Council, press release of 18.12.2020
Second wave, new variants. The Federal Council tightens the measures without resorting to emergency law. From 18 January, shops not selling essential goods close; working from home becomes compulsory wherever possible without disproportionate cost; private and public gatherings are limited to five people, children included. The closure of restaurants and of cultural, sports and leisure […]
The Solothurn Film Festival is held online. During the Swiss Film Awards Nominations Night, streamed live, Alain Berset pays tribute to Markus Imhoof, winner of the 2020 Honorary Award: the March 2020 ceremony had been cancelled because of the pandemic. He starts from life in lockdown: a small screen in the morning, a medium one […]
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