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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190522
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SUMMARY:Opening of the 72nd World Health Assembly
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the 72nd World Health Assembly at the Palais des Nations. On the agenda: the WHO’s 2020-2021 budget\, its reform and universal health coverage. More than half of the world’s population still lacks access to basic care. \nHe holds a series of bilateral meetings with health ministers. In the evening\, he receives the delegations at the Campus Biotech\, with WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\, to present the “Swiss Health Valley”. On 21 May\, with the Afghan and Central African ministers\, he takes part in an event launched by Switzerland on strengthening health systems in emergencies. \nMonday 20 May 2019 — Geneva\n\nOpening session of the World Health Assembly\, speech\nMeeting with Juan Pablo Uribe\, Colombian Minister of Health\nMeeting with Saeed Namaki\, Iranian Minister of Health\nMeeting with Alfred Madigele\, Minister of Health of Botswana\nMeeting with Veronika Skvortsova\, Russian Minister of Health\nMeeting with Bruno Bruins\, Dutch minister\nSwiss reception at the Campus Biotech\, speech\n\nTuesday 21 May 2019 — Geneva\n\nMeeting with Arsen Torosyan\, Armenian Minister of Health\nMeeting with Ahmed Al Saidi\, Minister of Health of Oman\nEvent “Partnerships for Health Systems Strengthening – Prepared for Emergencies”\n\nSpeeches on this site \n\n72e Assemblée mondiale de la Santé (French-language page)\nRéception de la Suisse pour la 72e Assemblée mondiale de la Santé (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 20.05.2019\nFederal Council\, speech of 20.05.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-72nd-world-health-assembly/
LOCATION:Genève
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190520
DTSTAMP:20261020T173131Z
CREATED:20261016T000420Z
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SUMMARY:Vote on the tax reform and AHV financing (TRAF)
DESCRIPTION:The people approve the Federal Act on Tax Reform and AHV Financing with 66.4% of the vote\, on a turnout of 43.7%. All cantons vote yes. The reform abolishes preferential tax status for companies and\, in return\, brings some 2 billion francs a year to the AHV from 2020. \nAlain Berset had launched the Federal Council’s campaign on 18 February with the President of the Confederation\, Ueli Maurer: a bill that “preserves jobs and tax revenue while strengthening the AHV”. On the evening of the vote\, the two Federal Councillors comment on the result before the press in Berne. As the additional funding covers only part of the needs\, the Federal Council goes straight on to the AHV 21 reform. \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 18.02.2019\nSwissvotes\, official result
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/vote-on-the-tax-reform-and-ahv-financing-traf/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190509
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190511
DTSTAMP:20261020T173131Z
CREATED:20261016T002236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173131Z
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SUMMARY:58th Art Biennale: opening of the Swiss Pavilion
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the Swiss Pavilion at the 58th Art Biennale\, “Moving Backwards”\, by Pauline Boudry and Renate Lorenz\, curated by Charlotte Laubard. The pavilion is organised by Pro Helvetia. \nHe plays on the Biennale’s title\, “May you live in interesting times”: in English\, “interesting” often means its opposite; in German\, an “interesting” idea has no chance of being carried out within fifty years. The word therefore promises diversity and a nuanced view of the present. \nOn the sidelines\, he visits the Russian pavilion with Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets and meets the Chilean Minister of Culture\, Consuelo Valdés. On 10 May\, he tours the Arsenale and talks with the Swiss artists Christian Marclay and Christoph Büchel. \nThursday 9 May 2019 — Venice\n\nVisit to the Russian pavilion with Olga Golodets\, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia\nOpening of the Swiss Pavilion\, speech\nMeeting with Consuelo Valdés\, Chilean Minister of Culture\nVisit to the Giardini\nMeeting with the Swiss artists at the Biennale\n\nFriday 10 May 2019 — Venice\n\nVisit to the Arsenale and the main exhibition\nExchanges with Christian Marclay and Christoph Büchel\nVisit to the pavilions of Chile and China\n\nSpeeches on this site \n\nBiennale d’art de Venise 2019 : pavillon suisse (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nPro Helvetia\, Swiss Pavilion 2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/58th-art-biennale-opening-of-the-swiss-pavilion/
LOCATION:Venise
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190505
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190508
DTSTAMP:20261020T173130Z
CREATED:20261016T000414Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173130Z
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SUMMARY:Official visit to the Central African Republic
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset is the first member of the Federal Council to visit the Central African Republic. The armed conflict\, under way since 2012\, has hit civilians hard and damaged the health system; a peace agreement was signed on 5 February 2019 between the government and fourteen armed groups. Switzerland has funded humanitarian aid there since 2014. \nOn 6 May\, he travels to Kaga-Bandoro\, in the north\, where thousands of people driven out by violence live in displacement sites. He visits the hospital there with the ICRC. On 7 May\, in Bangui\, he visits the paediatric hospital\, then meets the Minister of Health\, Pierre Somse\, Prime Minister Firmin Ngrebada and President Faustin-Archange Touadéra\, with whom he discusses the peace agreement and humanitarian aid. \n“I wanted to go and see what is happening on the ground\,” he tells RTS. He offers Swiss expertise in conflict resolution\, dealing with the past\, the rule of law and justice. \nSunday 5 May 2019 — Bangui\n\nWelcome by the Minister of Foreign Affairs\, Sylvie Baipo-Temon\nMeeting with Central African artists\nEvening with the Swiss community\, partners and artists\, speech\n\nMonday 6 May 2019 — Kaga-Bandoro\, Bangui\n\nMeeting with the Prefect of Nana-Grébizi\nICRC humanitarian briefing\nVisit to the Kaga-Bandoro hospital and the displacement site\nLunch with humanitarian organisations (OCHA)\nVisit to Radio Ndeke Luka\, supported by the Fondation Hirondelle\nMeeting with the Platform of Religious Confessions\, with Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalaïnga\n\nTuesday 7 May 2019 — Bangui\n\nVisit to the Bangui paediatric hospital\nMeeting with Pierre Somse\, Minister of Health and Population\nMeeting with Prime Minister Firmin Ngrebada\nAudience with President Faustin-Archange Touadéra\nLunch with MINUSCA and the diplomatic corps\nPress conference\n\nSpeeches on this site \n\nSoirée de rencontre à Bangui (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 02.05.2019\nSwissinfo\, 07.05.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/official-visit-to-the-central-african-republic/
LOCATION:Bangui
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190429
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190501
DTSTAMP:20261020T173130Z
CREATED:20261016T000410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173130Z
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SUMMARY:Meeting of German-speaking social affairs ministers
DESCRIPTION:In Zurich\, Alain Berset hosts the social affairs ministers of Germany\, Austria\, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. It is the second meeting in this format\, after Vienna in 2016. Present are the Austrian minister Beate Hartinger-Klein\, the Liechtenstein minister Mauro Pedrazzini\, the German State Secretary Rolf Schmachtenberg and the Luxembourg First Government Counsellor Abilio Fernandes. \nThe theme: work transformed by digitalisation\, in particular the platform economy. In a joint declaration\, signed at the National Museum\, the five countries state that social protection and continuing education must also be guaranteed in new forms of work. \nMonday 29 April 2019 — Zurich\n\nWelcome at the Swiss National Museum\, visit of the restored rooms\nWorking session on platform workers\, presentation by Michael Marti\nSigning of the joint declaration\nOfficial dinner\n\nTuesday 30 April 2019 — Zurich\n\nSession at the Kraftwerk on artificial intelligence and new forms of employment\, presentation by Antoine Verdon\nSession on a new model for covering social risks\, presentation by Silja Häusermann\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 29.04.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/meeting-of-german-speaking-social-affairs-ministers/
LOCATION:Zurich
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190416
DTSTAMP:20261020T173130Z
CREATED:20261016T000407Z
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SUMMARY:Informal meeting of EU health ministers
DESCRIPTION:In Bucharest\, Alain Berset attends the informal meeting of European Union health ministers\, organised by the Romanian presidency. The dialogue covers timely and affordable access to innovative therapies\, the fight against hepatitis C and the European directive on cross-border healthcare. \nOn the sidelines\, he holds several bilateral meetings: with the Romanian Minister of Health\, Sorina Pintea\, the Romanian Minister of Culture\, Valer-Daniel Breaz\, Luxembourg’s Deputy Prime Minister\, Etienne Schneider\, and the Belgian minister Maggie De Block. He invites his colleagues to the ministerial summit on patient safety planned in Switzerland. \nSunday 14 April 2019 — Bucharest\n\nMeeting with Sorina Pintea\, Romanian Minister of Health (access to medicines\, Switzerland–EU relations)\nMeeting with Valer-Daniel Breaz\, Romanian Minister of Culture\nMinisters’ dinner at the National Museum of Art of Romania\n\nMonday 15 April 2019 — Bucharest\n\nSession on access to innovative and expensive medicines\, Palace of the Parliament\nMeeting with Etienne Schneider\, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Health of Luxembourg\nWorking lunch on hepatitis\nSession on the directive on cross-border healthcare\nMeeting with Maggie De Block\, Belgian Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 12.04.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/informal-meeting-of-eu-health-ministers/
LOCATION:Bucarest
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190413
DTSTAMP:20261020T173129Z
CREATED:20261016T000404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173129Z
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SUMMARY:New exhibition hall of the Stiftsbezirk
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset inaugurates the new exhibition hall of the Abbey precinct of St Gallen\, a World Heritage site. The ninth-century Plan of St Gall is shown there a few seconds at a time\, to protect the original from light. \nHe defends a sense of history in a restless present: “Wer die Macht der Geschichte verkennt\, tut dies auf eigene Gefahr.” Museums\, he says\, remind us that the past was once the future. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nEröffnung des neuen Ausstellungssaals im Stiftsbezirk St.Gallen (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 12.04.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/new-exhibition-hall-of-the-stiftsbezirk/
LOCATION:Saint-Gall
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190405
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190406
DTSTAMP:20261020T173129Z
CREATED:20261016T000400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173129Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of the 50th Visions du Réel
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the 50th edition of the documentary film festival in Nyon\, with the President of the Vaud Council of State\, Nuria Gorrite\, the mayor\, Daniel Rossellat\, the festival president\, Claude Ruey\, and the artistic director\, Emilie Bujès. \nHe compares the history of the festival to growing up: born in 1969 under a purely descriptive name\, it became “Visions du Réel” in 1995\, like a teenager who chooses concepts. He speaks of the therapeutic effect of documentary: by escaping into the reality of others\, one becomes aware of one’s own. He pays tribute to Claude Ruey\, the outgoing president. \nSpeeches on this site \n\n50e édition du festival Visions du Réel (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nVisions du Réel\, press release of 05.04.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-50th-visions-du-reel/
LOCATION:Nyon
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190404
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190405
DTSTAMP:20261020T173129Z
CREATED:20261016T000356Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173129Z
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SUMMARY:Carl Spitteler: 100 years since the Nobel Prize in Literature
DESCRIPTION:In Liestal\, Alain Berset speaks at the celebration of the centenary of Carl Spitteler’s Nobel Prize. Spitteler is the only Swiss-born writer to have received it and\, in his words\, “der grosse Unbekannte der Schweizer Literatur- und Geistesgeschichte”. \nHe first jokes about the fourteen years of work on “Prometheus und Epimetheus”\, which console him a little about the AHV reform. Then he returns to the speech of December 1914\, “Unser Schweizer Standpunkt”\, a plea against internal division and for neutrality at the start of the war. Spitteler\, he says\, embodies civic courage: “Dafür\, dass Feigheit vor dem Freunde eben nicht von Freundschaft zeugt\, sondern von Feigheit.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nLiestal\, 4. April 2019. Betrachtungen eines Politischen (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 04.04.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/carl-spitteler-100-years-since-the-nobel-prize-in-literature/
LOCATION:Liestal
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190324
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190327
DTSTAMP:20261020T173128Z
CREATED:20261016T000352Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173128Z
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SUMMARY:Official visit to Tunisia: social security agreement
DESCRIPTION:On 25 March in Tunis\, Alain Berset and the Minister of Social Affairs\, Mohamed Trabelsi\, sign a social security agreement. It covers old age\, survivors and invalidity\, guarantees equal treatment and allows pensions to be paid abroad. \nHe is received by President Béji Caïd Essebsi and by the Head of Government\, Youssef Chahed\, then meets the Minister of Cultural Affairs\, Mohamed Zine El Abidine. In the evening\, he launches Switzerland’s regional cultural cooperation programme for North Africa. \nOn 26 March\, he visits two projects supported by Switzerland that give prospects to young people in the suburbs of Tunis\, to prevent radicalisation. Switzerland invests nearly 20 million francs a year in cooperation in Tunisia. \nMonday 25 March 2019 — Tunis\n\nCourtesy call on the Head of Government\, Youssef Chahed\, at the Kasbah\nCourtesy call on President Béji Caïd Essebsi\, Carthage Palace\nMeeting with Mohamed Trabelsi\, Minister of Social Affairs\nSigning of the social security agreement\nMeeting with Mohamed Zine El Abidine\, Minister of Cultural Affairs\nPress briefing\nMeeting with Ghassan Salamé\, UN Special Representative for Libya\nLaunch of the regional cultural programme of Swiss cooperation\, speech\n\nTuesday 26 March 2019 — Le Kram\, Douar Hicher\n\nVisit to the Mobdiun – Creative Youth project in Le Kram\, theatre workshop with young people\nVisit to an International Alert project in Douar Hicher\nLunch with the partners of the project to prevent violent extremism\n\nSpeeches on this site \n\nLancement du Programme culturel Afrique du Nord de la coopération suisse (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 25.03.2019\nFederal Council\, press release of 21.03.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/official-visit-to-tunisia-social-security-agreement/
LOCATION:Tunis
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190322
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190323
DTSTAMP:20261020T173128Z
CREATED:20261016T000348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173128Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Film Awards: Honorary Award for Beki Probst
DESCRIPTION:The Swiss Film Awards ceremony takes place at the Bâtiment des Forces Motrices\, in the presence of Alain Berset. “Ceux qui travaillent” by Antoine Russbach and “Chris the Swiss” by Anja Kofmel each win three awards. \nAlain Berset gives the tribute to Beki Probst\, Honorary Award for a career devoted to bringing films to audiences. He opens by paying tribute to Bruno Ganz and Claude Goretta\, who had died a few weeks earlier. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPrix du cinéma suisse 2019 : Prix d’honneur à Beki Probst (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 22.03.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-film-awards-honorary-award-for-beki-probst/
LOCATION:Genève
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190319
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190320
DTSTAMP:20261020T173128Z
CREATED:20261016T002350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173128Z
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SUMMARY:Forum Gesundheit Schweiz: quality of care
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset speaks about quality at the Forum Gesundheit Schweiz. He notes with irony that the word appears only six times in the Constitution\, “gleich häufig wie Frieden\, Zweitwohnungen und Spezialfinanzierung”. \nHis starting point: the quality of the Swiss health system is high\, thanks to compulsory insurance and trained staff. But it must be measured and improved systematically\, at a time when Parliament is debating stronger quality requirements in health insurance. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nForum Santé pour tous : la qualité dans le système de santé (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/forum-gesundheit-schweiz-quality-of-care/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190310
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190313
DTSTAMP:20261020T173128Z
CREATED:20261016T000340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173128Z
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SUMMARY:Commission on the Status of Women (CSW63) at the UN
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset leads the Swiss delegation to the 63rd session of the Commission on the Status of Women. The theme: social protection for women and girls\, and their access to public services and infrastructure. Switzerland puts forward two priorities: equal pay and recognition of unpaid domestic and care work. \nBefore the plenary\, he quotes Simone de Beauvoir and speaks “as minister for equality and as a man”. He recalls that no country has fully achieved equality\, and that only 20% of permanent representatives to the UN are women. At the round table on women’s leadership\, he recalls that Switzerland is a young democracy\, “one of the youngest in the world”: women have voted at federal level only since 1971. \nSwitzerland organises an event on the pay gap with the ILO\, with Icelandic Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir and UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. Alain Berset gives a figure: in Switzerland\, the average gap is 18%\, and more than two fifths of this gap\, in the private sector\, cannot be explained by objective factors. \nSunday 10 March 2019 — New York\n\nMeeting with Swiss artists based in New York\nReception for equality ministers at the invitation of Katrín Jakobsdóttir\, Prime Minister of Iceland\n\nMonday 11 March 2019 — New York\n\nOpening of the 63rd session of the CSW\, with António Guterres\nMeeting with Taina Bofferding\, Luxembourg Minister for Equality\nPress briefing\nMinisterial round table on social protection and unpaid work\nMeeting with Marius-Constantin Budai\, Romanian Minister of Labour\nMeeting with Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka\, Executive Director of UN Women\nEvent “Closing the Gender Pay Gap”\, organised by Switzerland and the ILO\n\nTuesday 12 March 2019 — New York\n\nOpening of the “Women in Power” event of the President of the General Assembly\nMeeting with Juliane Bogner-Strauss\, Austrian Minister for Women\nRound table “How women leaders change the world”\nStatement by Switzerland in the plenary\nMinisterial dialogue on alliances for social protection\n\nSpeeches on this site \n\n63e session de la Commission de la condition de la femme (French-language page)\nCSW63 : table ronde ministérielle sur le travail domestique non rémunéré (French-language page)\nCSW63 : « Closing the Gender Pay Gap »\, événement parallèle (French-language page)\nCSW63 : table ronde « How women leaders change the world » (French-language page)\nCSW63 : dialogue ministériel sur les alliances pour la protection sociale (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 07.03.2019\nFederal Council\, speech of 12.03.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/commission-on-the-status-of-women-csw63-at-the-un/
LOCATION:New York
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190307
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190308
DTSTAMP:20261020T173127Z
CREATED:20261016T000333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173127Z
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SUMMARY:Rencontres 7e Art Lausanne
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset speaks at the Rencontres du 7e Art in Lausanne\, a festival founded by Vincent Perez. \nHe opens with a mock settling of scores with “Monsieur Couchepin”: not his predecessor at the FDHA\, but Aloïs Couchepin\, the character played by Vincent Perez in the comedy “Bienvenue en Suisse” (2004). \nSpeeches on this site \n\nRencontres 7e art Lausanne (Fra\, Eng) (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 07.03.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/rencontres-7e-art-lausanne-2/
LOCATION:Lausanne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190215
DTSTAMP:20261020T173127Z
CREATED:20261016T002346Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173127Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Literature Awards ceremony
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset presents the Swiss Literature Awards 2019. The Grand Award goes to Zsuzsanna Gahse; the Special Award for Mediation to the Centre de traduction littéraire de Lausanne and the Looren Translation House. \nHis speech has a title: “Literatur – die Feindin der Rechthaberei”. He quotes Susan Sontag and defends empathy as literature’s most topical quality\, in a world shrunk by the internet. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPrix suisses de littérature 2019 : « Literatur – die Feindin der Rechthaberei » (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-literature-awards-ceremony-2/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190131
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190201
DTSTAMP:20261020T173126Z
CREATED:20261016T000325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173126Z
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SUMMARY:Health2020 national conference on digitalisation
DESCRIPTION:In Berne\, Alain Berset brings together some 300 health policy stakeholders for the sixth Health2020 national conference\, devoted to the digitalisation of the health system. \nHe opens with a figure: about 350\,000 health apps for smartphones\, and 200 new ones every day. The problem\, he says\, is the gap between what technology allows and how the health system is organised. Policy must build everyone’s digital skills\, make better use of data and guarantee trust in their safe use. The priority of the eHealth Switzerland 2.0 strategy is the introduction of the electronic patient record. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nConférence nationale Santé2020 : la numérisation dans le système de santé (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 31.01.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/health2020-national-conference-on-digitalisation/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190126
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190127
DTSTAMP:20261020T173126Z
CREATED:20261016T000322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173126Z
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SUMMARY:Vogel Gryff: guest of honour at the Gryffe-Mähli
DESCRIPTION:On the day of Vogel Gryff\, the great festival of Kleinbasel\, Alain Berset is the guest of honour at the Gryffe-Mähli\, the banquet of the three honorary societies (Drei Ehrengesellschaften Kleinbasels). \nHe gives the guest’s speech\, on the theme of misunderstandings. After the formal greetings\, he thanks his hosts in Basel dialect. \nSources \n\nBlick\, 26.01.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/vogel-gryff-guest-of-honour-at-the-gryffe-mahli/
LOCATION:Bâle
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190124
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190125
DTSTAMP:20261020T173125Z
CREATED:20261016T000319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173125Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of the 54th Solothurn Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the Solothurn Film Festival at the Reithalle\, arriving straight from Davos. He starts from good news from America to speak about the place of cinema: film remains\, “ob gestreamt oder im Kino”\, the main medium through which a society understands itself. \nHe sees in recent Swiss cinema a return to political seriousness. And he widens the view: “Die Alternativlosigkeit wird gegenwärtig als das entlarvt\, was sie ist: Denkfaulheit\, Phantasielosigkeit\, Kleinmut.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nSolothurner Filmtage (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 24.01.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-54th-solothurn-film-festival/
LOCATION:Soleure
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190125
DTSTAMP:20261020T173125Z
CREATED:20261016T000315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173125Z
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SUMMARY:World Economic Forum 2019: health\, culture and bilateral talks
DESCRIPTION:Four members of the Federal Council attend the WEF annual meeting. Alain Berset puts health policy at the centre: drug prices\, digitalisation\, patient safety. He meets several health ministers\, including Jens Spahn (Germany)\, Bruno Bruins (Netherlands) and Matt Hancock (United Kingdom)\, and takes part in a forum session on cooperation in health. \nHe also sees Audrey Azoulay\, Director-General of UNESCO\, on Switzerland’s commitment to the organisation and on building culture; Pierre Moscovici\, European Commissioner\, on relations between Switzerland and the European Union; Peter Maurer\, President of the ICRC\, with whom he discusses the Central African Republic\, which he will visit in May. \nOn 24 January\, after a press briefing at the House of Switzerland\, he leaves Davos for Solothurn\, where he opens the Solothurn Film Festival that same evening. \nTuesday 22 January 2019 — Davos\n\nOpening plenary session of the annual meeting\nMeeting with Peter Maurer\, President of the ICRC\nMeeting with Alfredo Moreno Charme\, Chilean Minister of Social Development (old-age provision)\nMeeting with the Saudi film director Haifaa Al Mansour\nOpening of the House of Switzerland\n\nWednesday 23 January 2019 — Davos\n\nMeeting with Bruno Bruins\, Dutch Minister for Medical Care\nMeeting with Joël Mesot\, President of ETH Zurich\nMeeting with Vas Narasimhan\, CEO of Novartis (drug prices)\nMeeting with Pierre Moscovici\, European Commissioner\nMeeting with Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty (Uber) on platform workers\nMeeting with Audrey Azoulay\, Director-General of UNESCO\n\nThursday 24 January 2019 — Davos\, Solothurn\n\nMeeting with Jens Spahn\, German Minister of Health\nWEF session on health: “Together for a Healthier World”\nMeeting with Matt Hancock\, British Health Secretary\nPress briefing at the House of Switzerland\nOpening of the Solothurn Film Festival\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 18.01.2019
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/world-economic-forum-2019-health-culture-and-bilateral-talks/
LOCATION:Davos
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190113
DTSTAMP:20261020T173125Z
CREATED:20261016T002339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173125Z
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SUMMARY:Landwehr Epiphany evening
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset is the guest of the traditional Epiphany evening of the Landwehr\, the official band of the State and City of Fribourg. In the hall: the President of the Council of State\, federal parliamentarians\, members of the cantonal government and of the consular corps. \nThe speech is a piece of humour built on the model of Erik Satie’s “Sonatine bureaucratique”: “a bureaucratic sonatina\, that is what we should call every official address”. Nonsense serves as the key to the score. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nSoirée des Rois de la Landwehr (French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/landwehr-epiphany-evening/
LOCATION:Fribourg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181211
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181212
DTSTAMP:20261020T173125Z
CREATED:20261015T213916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173125Z
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SUMMARY:Presentation of credentials: five new ambassadors
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset receives the credentials of the ambassadors of Sierra Leone\, Lansana Gberie\, Chad\, Makaila Ahmad\, Honduras\, Giampaolo Rizzo Alvarado\, Mozambique\, Amadeu Paulo Samuel da Conceição\, and Myanmar\, Kyaw Moe Tun. All are resident in Geneva. \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 11.12.2018
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/presentation-of-credentials-five-new-ambassadors/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181206
DTSTAMP:20261020T173124Z
CREATED:20261015T213914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173124Z
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SUMMARY:Election of Ueli Maurer as President of the Swiss Confederation for 2019
DESCRIPTION:The Federal Assembly elects Ueli Maurer President of the Swiss Confederation for 2019\, with 201 votes\, the best result since 1989. \nAlain Berset\, the outgoing President\, speaks at the celebration held in Berne in honour of his successor. \nSources \n\nswissinfo.ch\, 05.12.2018
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/election-of-ueli-maurer-as-president-of-the-swiss-confederation-for-2019/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181204
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181205
DTSTAMP:20261020T173124Z
CREATED:20261015T213912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173124Z
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SUMMARY:Visit by High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset leads the Swiss delegation that receives Michelle Bachelet\, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights since September. Ignazio Cassis and members of the foreign affairs committees of both chambers attend. \nHe stresses the political and financial means that the Office of the High Commissioner and the Human Rights Council need. The talks also cover the crises that threaten human rights and the shrinking space for civil society. \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 04.12.2018
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/visit-by-high-commissioner-for-human-rights-michelle-bachelet/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181204
DTSTAMP:20261020T173124Z
CREATED:20261015T213909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173124Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of COP24 in Katowice
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens COP24 with some 45 heads of state or government. At stake at the conference: the implementation rules of the Paris Agreement. The summit presents the Silesia Declaration on a just transition. \nIn his national statement\, he recalls that the average temperature in Switzerland has risen by two degrees since 1864 and that the glaciers have lost a fifth of their volume in ten years. He defends transparent and verifiable rules\, rejects “any attempt to weaken the implementation of the Paris Agreement” and announces more than 120 million dollars in new Swiss climate contributions. “Those who move first today will be the winners of tomorrow.” \nDoris Leuthard takes over for the ministerial segment on 12 December. \nMonday 3 December 2018 — Katowice\n\nWelcome of the heads of state by Polish President Andrzej Duda\, family photo\nOpening ceremony of the COP24 summit\nPresentation of the Silesia Declaration on a just transition\nNational statements: speech by Alain Berset\nMeetings with Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte\, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and Bulgarian President Rumen Radev\nMeeting with President Andrzej Duda\nMeeting with UN Secretary-General António Guterres\nPress conference\n\nSpeeches on this site \n\nConférence des Nations Unies sur le changement climatique à Katowice (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, text of the speech\, 03.12.2018\nFederal Council\, press release of 26.11.2018
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-cop24-in-katowice/
LOCATION:Katowice
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181201
DTSTAMP:20261020T173124Z
CREATED:20261015T213906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173124Z
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SUMMARY:Celebration of the UNESCO inscription of avalanche risk management
DESCRIPTION:On 29 November\, in Port Louis\, UNESCO inscribes avalanche risk management\, a joint nomination by Switzerland and Austria\, on the list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The next day\, Valais celebrates the inscription at the Arsenaux cultural centre in Sion\, with Alain Berset and the President of the Council of State\, Esther Waeber-Kalbermatten. \nHis speech sets Cujo\, Stephen King’s rabid St Bernard\, against Barry\, the dog of the Great St Bernard Hospice\, said to have saved some forty people. From the goat horns of the “Woldmannli” of Andermatt to computer readings\, he traces knowledge passed down from generation to generation: “the dogs will gradually have been replaced by chips”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nDiscours à la fête de l’inscription de la gestion du danger d’avalanches au patrimoine immatériel de l’UNESCO (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nState of Valais\, press release of 30.11.2018\nFederal Council\, press release of 29.11.2018
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/celebration-of-the-unesco-inscription-of-avalanche-risk-management/
LOCATION:Sion
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181129
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181130
DTSTAMP:20261020T173123Z
CREATED:20261015T213903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173123Z
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SUMMARY:40 years of the Federal Commission for Child and Youth Affairs
DESCRIPTION:At the PROGR cultural centre in Berne\, the Federal Commission for Child and Youth Affairs (FCCY) celebrates its 40th anniversary with the actors of child and youth policy\, around its President\, Sami Kanaan. An exhibition traces its history\, from the youth protests of 1980 to the digital age. \nAlain Berset speaks about young people and digital technology. He mocks the catalogues of skills demanded of children – “Die armen Kinder!” – and hopes that young people will open “a new Age of Enlightenment”. “The strength of a country is measured by the well-being of its young people.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nEidgenössischen Kommission für Kinder- und Jugendfragen (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, FSIO press release of 28.11.2018\nFederal Council\, text of the speech\, 29.11.2018
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/40-years-of-the-federal-commission-for-child-and-youth-affairs/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181129
DTSTAMP:20261020T173123Z
CREATED:20261015T213859Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173123Z
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SUMMARY:Celebration for Jean-René Fournier\, President of the Council of States
DESCRIPTION:Valais celebrates the election of Jean-René Fournier (CVP) as President of the Council of States\, with 44 votes out of 45. A special train takes the guests from Berne to Visp\, then to Sion for a procession. The day ends with a banquet in Conthey. \nAlain Berset speaks as President of the Swiss Confederation\, alongside Gerhard Pfister and Hans Stöckli. \nSources \n\nSRF\, 28.11.2018
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/celebration-for-jean-rene-fournier-president-of-the-council-of-states/
LOCATION:Conthey
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181128
DTSTAMP:20261020T173123Z
CREATED:20261015T213857Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173123Z
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SUMMARY:Presentation of credentials: Brazil\, Estonia\, Jamaica
DESCRIPTION:At the Federal Palace\, Alain Berset receives the credentials of the new ambassadors of Brazil\, Evandro de Sampaio Didonet\, of Estonia\, Toomas Kukk (resident in Vienna)\, and of Jamaica\, Cheryl Kay Spencer (resident in Geneva). \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 27.11.2018
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/presentation-of-credentials-brazil-estonia-jamaica/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181128
DTSTAMP:20261020T173123Z
CREATED:20261015T213855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173123Z
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SUMMARY:Federal Council objectives for 2019 before the Council of States
DESCRIPTION:At the start of the winter session\, Alain Berset presents to the Council of States the Federal Council’s objectives for 2019\, the last year of the 2015–2019 legislative period. They follow the three guidelines of the legislative period: prosperity\, national cohesion\, security. \nThe programme contains 96 measures in 25 policy areas\, spread across all the departments. \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 27.11.2018
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/federal-council-objectives-for-2019-before-the-council-of-states/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181123
DTSTAMP:20261020T173121Z
CREATED:20261015T213853Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173121Z
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SUMMARY:Video message to the Climate Vulnerable Forum virtual summit
DESCRIPTION:Ahead of COP24\, Alain Berset addresses by video the virtual summit of the Climate Vulnerable Forum\, which brings together the countries most exposed to climate change. The summit is organised by the Marshall Islands. \n“The average temperature in Switzerland has risen by two degrees since 1850.” The Swiss glaciers are lost\, he says\, but there is still time to avoid worse. He calls for rapid and binding implementation of the Paris Agreement\, “even if it may be too late to save the Swiss glaciers”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nMessage vidéo au sommet virtuel du Climate Vulnerable Forum (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 26.11.2018
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/video-message-to-the-climate-vulnerable-forum-virtual-summit/
LOCATION:Berne
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