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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160523
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SUMMARY:Opening of the 69th World Health Assembly
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset gives the opening speech of the 69th World Health Assembly at the Palais des Nations. He starts from the 2030 Agenda: “Transforming our world!” The Sustainable Development Goals now concern all states\, and no longer only low- and middle-income countries. \nOn the same day\, he chairs a ministerial round table on dementia\, organised by Switzerland with fifteen other states\, including Germany\, the United Kingdom\, the United States and Ethiopia\, represented by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. In the evening\, he receives the delegations on behalf of the Federal Council. \nOn the sidelines\, he meets some ten health ministers\, including those of Canada\, China\, Iran\, Norway\, the Netherlands and South Africa. \nMonday 23 May 2016 — Geneva\n\nOpening session of the World Health Assembly\, speech by Alain Berset\nInformal ministers’ lunch\nMinisterial round table on dementia\, organised by Switzerland: welcome address and conclusions by Alain Berset\nPress briefing\nMeeting with Edith Schippers and Martin van Rijn (Netherlands)\nSwiss reception on behalf of the Federal Council\n\nSpeeches on this site \n\n69e Assemblée mondiale de la Santé (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 23.05.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-69th-world-health-assembly/
LOCATION:Genève
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160521
DTSTAMP:20261020T173020Z
CREATED:20261016T003306Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173020Z
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SUMMARY:National Dialogue on Social Policy: women and the labour market
DESCRIPTION:At the National Dialogue on Social Policy of the Conference of Cantonal Directors of Social Affairs\, Alain Berset speaks about the shortage of skilled workers and about reconciling work and family life. \nHe opens with a finding from neuroscience: strategic tasks call on the same regions of the brain as looking after children. Good managers therefore have what it takes to be good fathers\, and vice versa: “Mütter haben die besten Voraussetzungen dafür\, gute Manager zu sein.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nDialogue national sur la politique sociale : intégration des femmes au marché du travail (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/national-dialogue-on-social-policy-women-and-the-labour-market/
LOCATION:Scuol
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160520
DTSTAMP:20261020T173020Z
CREATED:20261016T003303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173020Z
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SUMMARY:European Heritage Heads Forum 2016
DESCRIPTION:From 18 to 21 May\, the Federal Office of Culture hosts in Berne the 11th annual meeting of the forum of European heritage heads. Alain Berset addresses the participants at Schadau Castle in Thun. \n“Our cultural heritage is the exact opposite of national stereotypes.” Switzerland\, reduced to cheese\, banks and chocolate\, was already an industrial power when Johanna Spyri was born\, in 1827. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nEuropean Heritage Heads Forum 2016 (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nEHHF\, 2016 annual meeting
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/european-heritage-heads-forum-2016/
LOCATION:Thoune
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160519
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160520
DTSTAMP:20261020T173020Z
CREATED:20261016T003300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173020Z
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SUMMARY:25 years of the Swiss Path
DESCRIPTION:On the Rütli\, Alain Berset celebrates 25 years of the Swiss Path\, the trail laid out around Lake Uri for the 700th anniversary of the Confederation\, and of the Square of the Swiss Abroad. School classes from every canton are present. \n“Unser Nationaldenkmal ist… eine Wiese.” No bronze horseman\, no pantheon: “Gras statt Grandiosität: Das ist die Schweizer Bodenhaftung.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\n25 ans de la Voie suisse (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/25-years-of-the-swiss-path/
LOCATION:Rütli
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160420
DTSTAMP:20261020T173020Z
CREATED:20261016T002508Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173020Z
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SUMMARY:Special session of the UN General Assembly on drugs (UNGASS)
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset leads the Swiss delegation to the special session of the United Nations General Assembly on the world drug problem. He gives a press briefing at the Swiss Mission before the opening. \nSwitzerland defends its four-pillar policy (prevention\, therapy\, harm reduction\, law enforcement)\, which treats addiction as an illness. It calls for international policy to incorporate human rights and for the death penalty for drug-related offences to be abolished. \nOn the sidelines\, he holds talks with Martin van Rijn\, Dutch State Secretary for Health\, with the Danish Health Minister\, Sophie Løhde\, and with the Iranian Minister of the Interior\, Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli\, who heads his country’s fight against drugs. \nTuesday 19 April 2016 — New York\n\nPress briefing at the Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN\nOpening of the special session\, General Assembly Hall\nExplanation of Switzerland’s position on the adoption of the outcome document\nMeetings with Sophie Løhde (Denmark)\, Martin van Rijn (Netherlands) and Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli (Iran)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 19.04.2016\nFederal Council\, press release of 14.04.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/special-session-of-the-un-general-assembly-on-drugs-ungass/
LOCATION:New York
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160419
DTSTAMP:20261020T173019Z
CREATED:20261016T002505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173019Z
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SUMMARY:Informal meeting of EU health ministers
DESCRIPTION:In Amsterdam\, Alain Berset takes part in the informal meeting of the health ministers of the European Union\, chaired by the Dutch minister Edith Schippers. \nOn access to innovative treatments at an acceptable price\, he raises the difficulty of reconciling thriving pharmaceutical research with affordable prices. On improving foodstuffs\, he presents the Swiss nutrition strategy\, pursued with industry and based on reducing salt and sugar. He also holds talks with his counterparts from neighbouring countries. \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 18.04.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/informal-meeting-of-eu-health-ministers-2/
LOCATION:Amsterdam
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160416
DTSTAMP:20261020T173019Z
CREATED:20261016T002502Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of the 100th Muba
DESCRIPTION:On the same day\, Alain Berset opens the hundredth edition of the Muba\, the Basel sample fair: “100 years of progress. 100 years of enriching our daily lives.” \nHe sees a link between direct democracy and inventiveness. Switzerland\, he says\, is “a sample fair on a grand scale”\, and the Birchermüesli “die Mutter aller Kompromisse”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nMUBA (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 15.04.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-100th-muba/
LOCATION:Bâle
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160415
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160416
DTSTAMP:20261020T173019Z
CREATED:20261016T002457Z
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SUMMARY:Inauguration of the extension of the Kunstmuseum Basel
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset inaugurates the new building of the Kunstmuseum Basel\, designed by the architects Christ & Gantenbein. “Der Erweiterungsbau erweitert unseren Horizont”: the building enters into dialogue with the 1930s museum\, with the works and with the public. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nKunstmuseum Basel (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 15.04.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/inauguration-of-the-extension-of-the-kunstmuseum-basel/
LOCATION:Bâle
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160414
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160415
DTSTAMP:20261020T173019Z
CREATED:20261016T002452Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Performing Arts Award 2016 to Compagnia Baccalà
DESCRIPTION:At the opening gala of the Swiss Performing Arts Fair in Thun\, the Swiss Performing Arts Award is presented to the clown duo Compagnia Baccalà\, Camilla Pessi and Simone Fassari\, in the presence of Alain Berset. \nHe salutes the “A cappella-Sängerinnen\, Action-Comedy-Darsteller\, Akrobatinnen und Artisten” and all the disciplines of the small stage\, and draws a definition from them: “Verknappung und Verdichtung: Das ist keine kleine Kunst. Im Gegenteil: Das ist Kleinkunst.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPrix suisse des arts de la scène (Kleinkunstpreis) 2016 (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 14.04.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-performing-arts-award-2016-to-compagnia-baccala/
LOCATION:Thoune
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160409
DTSTAMP:20261020T173018Z
CREATED:20261016T002448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173018Z
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SUMMARY:Unconditional basic income: position of the Confederation and the cantons
DESCRIPTION:Together with Anne-Claude Demierre\, Vice-President of the Conference of Cantonal Directors of Social Affairs\, Alain Berset presents to the press the position of the Confederation and the cantons on the popular initiative “For an unconditional basic income”. The initiators proposed 2\,500 francs per month per adult. \nThe Federal Council shares the aim of a dignified existence for all\, already enshrined in the Constitution. It considers that such an income would weaken the economy and the social security system. On 5 June 2016\, the people and all the cantons reject the initiative. \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 08.04.2016\nFederal Chancellery\, results of 05.06.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/unconditional-basic-income-position-of-the-confederation-and-the-cantons/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160318
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160319
DTSTAMP:20261020T173017Z
CREATED:20261016T002445Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173017Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Film Award 2016
DESCRIPTION:The Quartz awards are presented at the Schiffbau in Zurich\, live on SRF\, RTS and RSI. “Köpek” by Esen Isik wins the award for best feature film; “Above and Below” that for best documentary. \nAlain Berset pays tribute to the cinematographer Renato Berta\, winner of the Honorary Award\, “ein Meister des Weglassens”\, who has shot films with Tanner\, Godard\, Schmid\, Rivette\, Chabrol and Rohmer. Laughing\, he regrets the ban on telephones in the Federal Council’s meeting room: the amateur films that would come out of it would have “eine ganz besondere ästhetische Qualität”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPrix du cinéma suisse (in Italian\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 18.03.2016\nFederal Council\, speech of 18.03.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-film-award-2016/
LOCATION:Zurich
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160317
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160318
DTSTAMP:20261020T173017Z
CREATED:20261016T002439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173017Z
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SUMMARY:Culture and Economy Forum: crowdfunding
DESCRIPTION:At the Culture and Economy Forum\, Alain Berset presents the first study on crowdfunding in the cultural sector in Switzerland\, carried out by the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. In 2014\, nearly 4.5 million francs were raised in this way for cultural projects. \nHe recalls that the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty was paid for in 1885 by more than 120\,000 donors\, in response to an appeal by Joseph Pulitzer. Crowdfunding\, he says\, brings creators closer to their audience and complements public support without replacing it. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nForum Culture et économie : le financement participatif\, une chance pour l’économie créative (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 17.03.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/culture-and-economy-forum-crowdfunding/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160312
DTSTAMP:20261020T173017Z
CREATED:20261016T002435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173017Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of the 30th Fribourg International Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the 30th edition of the FIFF in his home town. He starts from the final speech of Chaplin’s “The Great Dictator”: “You\, the people\, have the power to make this life free and beautiful.” \nHe pays tribute to a festival that has been showing cinema from Asia\, Africa and Latin America for thirty years\, and that shows the Fribourg public realities it does not know. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nFestival International de Films de Fribourg (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 11.03.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-30th-fribourg-international-film-festival/
LOCATION:Fribourg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160309
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160311
DTSTAMP:20261020T173016Z
CREATED:20261016T002431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173016Z
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SUMMARY:Patient Safety Global Action Summit
DESCRIPTION:At the invitation of the British Health Secretary\, Jeremy Hunt\, and with Germany as co-sponsor\, Alain Berset takes part in London in the first global ministerial summit on patient safety. The aim: to create a global movement to reduce the number of avoidable deaths in hospitals. \nFor Switzerland\, the subject falls under the Health2020 strategy. Healthcare-associated infections cause some 2\,000 deaths a year there; half could be avoided. At the summit\, at Lancaster House\, he speaks in the round of ministerial reflections. \nOn the sidelines\, he discusses reform priorities\, quality\, hospital infections\, dementia and WHO with Jeremy Hunt. \nWednesday 9 March 2016 — London\n\nWelcome of the ministers at Lancaster House by Jeremy Hunt\nBriefing of the ministers with the chairs of the expert panels\nMinisterial dinner\n\nThursday 10 March 2016 — London\n\nMinisterial summit\, opened by Lord Darzi and Hermann Gröhe\nMinisterial reflections\, contribution by Alain Berset\nBilateral meeting with Jeremy Hunt\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 09.03.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/patient-safety-global-action-summit-2/
LOCATION:Londres
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160303
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160304
DTSTAMP:20261020T173016Z
CREATED:20261016T003423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173016Z
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SUMMARY:Official day of the 86th Geneva International Motor Show
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset represents the Federal Council at the official opening day of the Geneva Motor Show\, before the Geneva authorities and the management of the show. \nHe greets the “friends of fine radiator grilles and walnut dashboards” and quotes Roland Barthes on the car on display\, the object of a “tactile” and “amorous” discovery. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nOuverture du Salon international de l’automobile de Genève (French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/official-day-of-the-86th-geneva-international-motor-show/
LOCATION:Genève
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160303
DTSTAMP:20261020T173016Z
CREATED:20261016T003420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173016Z
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SUMMARY:Forum Health for All: quality and patient safety
DESCRIPTION:At the lunch debate of the Forum Gesundheit Schweiz\, Alain Berset argues for strengthening quality and cost-effectiveness in health insurance\, and for the planned national quality network. \nHe opens with the standing format of the meal: the campaign against sedentary lifestyles “wirkt – und das sogar bei ihren härtesten Kritikern”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nForum Santé pour tous : qualité et sécurité des patients (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/forum-health-for-all-quality-and-patient-safety/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160219
DTSTAMP:20261020T173016Z
CREATED:20261016T002421Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173016Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Literature Awards 2016: Grand Award to Alberto Nessi
DESCRIPTION:At the National Library\, Alain Berset presents the Swiss Grand Award for Literature to the Ticino writer Alberto Nessi. The Special Translation Award goes to Hartmut Fähndrich\, translator of Arabic-language literature. \nHis laudatio\, in Italian\, pays tribute to an author of closeness and of seemingly insignificant things. He quotes his line: “L’universale è il locale meno i muri.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPrix suisses de littérature 2016 (in Italian\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 18.02.2016\nFederal Council\, speech of 18.02.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-literature-awards-2016-grand-award-to-alberto-nessi/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160205
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160206
DTSTAMP:20261020T173015Z
CREATED:20261016T002416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173015Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of “Dada Universal” at the National Museum
DESCRIPTION:The Swiss National Museum opens “Dada Universal” to mark 100 years of the movement born at the Cabaret Voltaire. Alain Berset speaks at the opening\, “in meiner Funktion als Kulturminister”\, but also as minister for social insurance: “Brauchen wir das Rentenalter 85?” \nHe presents Dada as a subversive humanism\, which answers the chaos of war with the absurd and turns certainties upside down: “Bitterer Humor\, um auf bitteren Ernst hinzuweisen.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\n« Dada Universal » (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 05.02.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-dada-universal-at-the-national-museum/
LOCATION:Zurich
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160202
DTSTAMP:20261020T173015Z
CREATED:20261016T002412Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173015Z
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SUMMARY:Health2020 national conference: “Less is more”
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset and Philippe Perrenoud\, member of a cantonal government and President of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Health Directors\, bring together nearly 300 players from the health system in Berne. The third Health2020 national conference is devoted to unnecessary or excessive services: where they occur\, why\, and how to reduce them. \nIn his opening address\, he quotes Einstein\, a former technical expert third class at the Patent Office: “Mache die Dinge so einfach wie möglich – aber nicht einfacher.” He welcomes the medical profession’s commitment to the “Choosing Wisely” initiatives. Superfluous treatments expose patients to risks and drive up the bill. \nIn closing\, he notes that the participants talked “with one another rather than about one another”. The ways forward: raising awareness\, revising tariffs\, developing outpatient surgery and the assessment of services. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nConférence nationale Santé2020 : la surmédicalisation (ouverture) (in German\, French-language page)\nConférence nationale Santé2020 : la surmédicalisation (clôture) (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 01.02.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/health2020-national-conference-less-is-more/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160122
DTSTAMP:20261020T173015Z
CREATED:20261016T002407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173015Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of the 51st Solothurn Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the 51st Solothurn Film Festival. For Swiss cinema\, 2015 was the year of “Heidi”\, the biggest Swiss box-office success of all time\, and of “Schellen-Ursli”. He draws a conclusion from it: “Die Alpen sind offenbar unwiderstehlich.” \nHe contrasts the two poles of Swiss identity: the Alps\, unchanging\, and direct democracy\, “etwas nervöser\, aber auch etwas lebendiger”\, where almost everything is negotiated. A month before the vote\, the speech takes aim at the enforcement initiative on the deportation of foreign criminals. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nDer Geist von Solothurn erobert die Alpen (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nSpeech published by the Federal Council\, reproduced on alainberset.ch
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-51st-solothurn-film-festival/
LOCATION:Soleure
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160122
DTSTAMP:20261020T173014Z
CREATED:20261016T002402Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173014Z
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SUMMARY:World Economic Forum 2016: talks on health and culture
DESCRIPTION:Six members of the Federal Council are in Davos for the WEF annual meeting. Alain Berset devotes two days to health policy and culture. On 20 January\, he attends the opening of the forum by the President of the Confederation\, Johann N. Schneider-Ammann\, and Klaus Schwab. \nHis talks cover the reforms under way and international health issues: antibiotic resistance\, the Sustainable Development Goals\, dementia\, access to innovative medicines. He sees the European Commissioner for Health\, Vytenis Andriukaitis\, the German Health Minister\, Hermann Gröhe\, the Dutch minister Edith Schippers\, whose country then holds the Presidency of the European Union\, the French minister Marisol Touraine and the South African minister Aaron Motsoaledi. \nWith the Director-General of UNESCO\, Irina Bokova\, he discusses Switzerland’s commitment to the organisation\, world heritage and the protection of heritage in armed conflict. He also talks with Thomas Zwiefelhofer\, Deputy Head of Government of Liechtenstein. \nWednesday 20 January 2016 — Davos\n\nMeeting with Aaron Motsoaledi\, South African Minister of Health\nMeeting with Thomas Zwiefelhofer\, Deputy Head of Government of Liechtenstein\nMeeting with Vytenis Andriukaitis\, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety\nMeeting with Edith Schippers\, Dutch Minister of Health\nOfficial opening of the annual meeting\, Congress Centre\nLive interview for the SRF programme “Eco”\n\nThursday 21 January 2016 — Davos\n\nMeeting with Hermann Gröhe\, German Federal Minister of Health\nMeeting with Irina Bokova\, Director-General of UNESCO\nMeeting with Marisol Touraine\, French Minister of Social Affairs and Health\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 19.01.2016
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/world-economic-forum-2016-talks-on-health-and-culture/
LOCATION:Davos
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151209
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151210
DTSTAMP:20261020T173014Z
CREATED:20261016T002348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173014Z
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SUMMARY:Re-election to the Federal Council
DESCRIPTION:The Federal Assembly elects the Federal Council for the 2016–2019 legislative period. Alain Berset is re-elected in the first round with 210 votes\, as are the five other incumbents standing again. \nGuy Parmelin (SVP) is elected in the third round to succeed Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf. \nSources \n\nWikipedia\, “2015 Swiss Federal Council election”
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/re-election-to-the-federal-council-2/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151203
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151204
DTSTAMP:20261020T173013Z
CREATED:20261016T003102Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173013Z
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SUMMARY:General Assembly of pharmaSuisse
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset speaks at the general assembly of the Swiss Pharmacists’ Association\, held under the theme “Die Apotheken im Umbruch”. Upheaval\, he notes\, is not confined to pharmacies: it is topical in the Federal Council too\, a few days before the renewal of the collegial body. \nHe quotes George Archambault\, the father of consultant pharmacy: nothing is permanent except change. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nAssemblée générale de pharmaSuisse (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/general-assembly-of-pharmasuisse/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151121
DTSTAMP:20261020T173013Z
CREATED:20261016T002341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173013Z
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SUMMARY:Close of the “Une Suisse à nos couleurs” campaign
DESCRIPTION:A week after the Paris attacks\, Alain Berset closes\, at the Zentrum Paul Klee\, the Federal Commission against Racism’s campaign against online hate speech. More than 90 associations\, schools\, administrations and individuals ran its Facebook page. \nHe calls for freedom to be defended “effektiv – aber nicht effekthascherisch”\, and for terrorism not to be confused with the refugee crisis. “The fight against exclusion will never end. New worlds are emerging\, such as the Internet and social networks\, in which the rules for living together must be defined.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nCommission fédérale contre le racisme : clôture de la campagne « Une Suisse à nos couleurs » (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFCR\, press release of 20.11.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/close-of-the-une-suisse-a-nos-couleurs-campaign/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151111
DTSTAMP:20261020T173013Z
CREATED:20261016T002337Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173013Z
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SUMMARY:FCCY national conference “Ma Suisse et moi”
DESCRIPTION:The Federal Commission for Child and Youth Affairs holds a national conference based on the survey “Ma Suisse et moi” (“My Switzerland and me”) of young people who came of age in 2015. Alain Berset: “A country must offer prospects to its young people\, otherwise it risks growing weaker.” \nAs the youngest member of the Federal Council\, he jokes about the Commission’s President\, Pierre Maudet\, who is younger still. A debate then brings together Anne Seydoux-Christe\, Lukas Reimann\, Mathias Reynard and Christian Wasserfallen. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nConférence nationale de la CFEJ « Ma Suisse et moi » (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFCCY\, press release of 10.11.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/fccy-national-conference-ma-suisse-et-moi/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151029
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151030
DTSTAMP:20261020T173013Z
CREATED:20261016T002333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173013Z
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SUMMARY:Grand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève 2015
DESCRIPTION:At the Grand Théâtre de Genève\, Alain Berset salutes the vitality of the watchmaking industry. The Aiguille d’Or goes to Greubel Forsey for the Tourbillon 24 Secondes Vision. \nHe quotes the historian Daniel Boorstin: to measure time precisely\, humanity had to free itself from the sun. If SBB set its timetables by the sundial\, the trains might risk arriving on time. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nGrand Prix d’Horlogerie de Genève 2015 (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nTribune de Genève\, 29.10.2015 (GPHG archive)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/grand-prix-dhorlogerie-de-geneve-2015-2/
LOCATION:Genève
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151016
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151017
DTSTAMP:20261020T173012Z
CREATED:20261016T002329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173012Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Dance Awards: Grand Award to Gilles Jobin
DESCRIPTION:At the Théâtre Equilibre in Fribourg\, Alain Berset presents the Swiss Grand Award for Dance to the Geneva choreographer Gilles Jobin. \n“Without dance\, we would not even have been born.” He is surprised that the classification of the arts\, since Hegel\, ranks dance only fourth\, and describes the protein biosynthesis danced at Stanford in the early 1970s. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPrix suisses de danse (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Office of Culture\, press release of 16.10.2015\nFDHA\, speech of 16.10.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-dance-awards-grand-award-to-gilles-jobin/
LOCATION:Fribourg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151015
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151016
DTSTAMP:20261020T173012Z
CREATED:20261016T002325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173012Z
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SUMMARY:Council of Europe conference on equal access of women to justice
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the conference of the Council of Europe’s Gender Equality Commission\, organised with the Federal Office for Gender Equality. “Equal access to justice is essential to achieving equality between women and men in all areas.” \nHe starts from a question\, “What is progress?”\, and quotes Victor Hugo: “Progress is the collective step of the human race.” Between 1998 and 2006\, fewer than 20% of applications to the European Court of Human Rights were lodged by women. Snežana Samardžić-Marković\, Director General of Democracy of the Council of Europe\, also opens the conference. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nConférence du Conseil de l’Europe sur l’égalité d’accès des femmes à la justice (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFOGE\, press release of 15.10.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/council-of-europe-conference-on-equal-access-of-women-to-justice/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151002
DTSTAMP:20261020T173012Z
CREATED:20261016T002321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173012Z
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SUMMARY:Working visit to China: social security agreement
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset begins in Ningxia province: a village where migrants have been resettled\, the cave dwellings of the loess plateau\, the fight against desertification. \nIn Beijing\, he signs with the Minister of Culture\, Luo Shugang\, a declaration of intent opening negotiations on a cultural agreement. On 30 September\, he signs with Yin Weimin\, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security\, an agreement exempting posted workers for up to six years from paying contributions in the host country. Some 600 Swiss companies employ more than 200\,000 people in China. \nHe then holds talks with Vice-Premier Ma Kai on social security and on adapting pension systems to ageing. At the Sino-Swiss Business Awards of the Chamber of Commerce\, he speaks about innovation: we know why the apple falls\, but not yet how innovation comes about. \nMonday 28 September 2015 — Ningxia\n\nVisit to a village of resettled migrants\, Tongxin County\nVisit to cave dwellings on the loess plateau\n\nTuesday 29 September 2015 — Ningxia and Beijing\n\nVisit to a site combating desertification\nMeeting with Luo Shugang\, Minister of Culture\, and signing of a declaration of intent\nSino-Swiss Business Awards: speech by Alain Berset\n\nWednesday 30 September 2015 — Beijing\n\nMeeting with Yin Weimin\, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security\, and signing of the social security agreement\nMeeting with the media\nMeeting with Ma Kai\, Vice-Premier\nChinese National Day reception at the Great Hall of the People\n\nSpeeches on this site \n\nSino-Swiss Business Awards 2015 (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 23.09.2015\nFDHA\, press release of 30.09.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/working-visit-to-china-social-security-agreement/
LOCATION:Pékin
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150925
DTSTAMP:20261020T173012Z
CREATED:20261016T002317Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173012Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of the 11th Zurich Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:At the opening gala\, Alain Berset welcomes the audience together with Nadja Schildknecht\, Karl Spoerri and the Mayor\, Corine Mauch. Opening film: “The Man Who Knew Infinity”. \nA few weeks before the elections\, he salutes the balance of the guests\, from Jeremy Irons to Arnold Schwarzenegger: a range that reminds him of the composition of the Federal Council. Then Denis de Rougemont: “Die Eidgenossen verbündeten sich miteinander\, um voneinander verschieden zu bleiben.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nZurich Film Festival (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nOutNow\, 25.09.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-11th-zurich-film-festival/
LOCATION:Zurich
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