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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20151110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20151111
DTSTAMP: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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150918
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150919
DTSTAMP:20261020T173011Z
CREATED:20261016T002313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173011Z
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SUMMARY:Thirty years of the Swiss Cultural Centre in Paris
DESCRIPTION:On the rue des Francs-Bourgeois\, Alain Berset celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of Pro Helvetia’s Swiss Cultural Centre. “For a socialist\, it is even a moment of intense emotion to do so on the rue des Francs-Bourgeois.” \nHe invokes Benjamin Constant\, for whom gratitude “has a short memory”\, and intends to prove him wrong. The evening brings together Charles Beer\, President of Pro Helvetia\, the President of the Council of States\, Claude Hêche\, and a performance by Roman Signer; it continues with a reception at the Ambassador’s residence. \nSpeeches on this site \n\n30 ans du Centre culturel suisse à Paris (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, speech of 18.09.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/thirty-years-of-the-swiss-cultural-centre-in-paris/
LOCATION:Paris
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150917
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150918
DTSTAMP:20261020T173011Z
CREATED:20261016T002308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173011Z
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SUMMARY:Meeting with Bi Jingquan\, Minister of the China Food and Drug Administration
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset receives the new Minister of the CFDA\, Bi Jingquan. They take stock of the cooperation agreement signed in Davos in January\, on foodstuffs\, medicines\, medical devices and cosmetics. \nA steering committee met for the first time in Beijing in June; the agreement extends a 2005 memorandum on health. \nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 17.09.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/meeting-with-bi-jingquan-minister-of-the-china-food-and-drug-administration/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150917
DTSTAMP:20261020T173010Z
CREATED:20261016T003047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173010Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of the Festival du film français d’Helvétie
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the FFFH in Biel/Bienne. His subject: the “popcorn barrier” that separates the language regions. A box-office success in one region almost always turns into a flop in the others. \nPromoting French-language cinema in German-speaking Switzerland from Biel/Bienne\, he tells the French guests\, is like promoting Breton cinema in Paris. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nFestival du film français d’Helvétie (French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-festival-du-film-francais-dhelvetie/
LOCATION:Bienne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150912
DTSTAMP:20261020T173010Z
CREATED:20261016T002300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173010Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Grand Award for Music to Heinz Holliger
DESCRIPTION:In Basel Minster\, Alain Berset opens the second presentation of the Swiss Grand Award for Music. The winner\, the oboist\, conductor and composer Heinz Holliger\, on tour in Japan\, responds live. \nThe speech quotes Nietzsche\, a former professor in Basel: “Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.” In Berne\, he says\, it would be put more cautiously. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nGrand Prix suisse de musique 2015 (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Office of Culture\, press release of 11.09.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-grand-award-for-music-to-heinz-holliger/
LOCATION:Bâle
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150912
DTSTAMP:20261020T173010Z
CREATED:20261016T002256Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173010Z
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SUMMARY:Federal Folk Music Festival
DESCRIPTION:In Aarau\, Alain Berset salutes folk music: “Die Volksmusik verbindet uns alle.” A heritage once again recognised as an expression of Swiss identity. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nFête fédérale de la musique populaire (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, speech of 11.09.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/federal-folk-music-festival/
LOCATION:Aarau
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150907
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150908
DTSTAMP:20261020T173009Z
CREATED:20261016T002252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173009Z
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SUMMARY:3rd National Forum on the protection of young people from the media
DESCRIPTION:The theme of the forum is “Always on”\, connected at all times and everywhere. Alain Berset recalls the strategy decided by the Federal Council in the spring: combining educational and regulatory measures. \nNew media carry risks (violent or pornographic content\, cyberbullying\, sexual abuse)\, but they are also an opportunity to learn and develop. The national Youth and Media programme (2011–2015) was carried out with Swisscom\, SIEA and the Jacobs Foundation. \nSpeeches on this site \n\n3e Forum national pour la protection de la jeunesse face aux médias (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFSIO\, press release of 07.09.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/3rd-national-forum-on-the-protection-of-young-people-from-the-media/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150904
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150905
DTSTAMP:20261020T173009Z
CREATED:20261016T002248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173009Z
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SUMMARY:Inauguration of Le Livre sur les quais
DESCRIPTION:Back from Vienna\, Alain Berset inaugurates the sixth edition of Le Livre sur les quais: 160\,000 visitors in five years. He covered his office with photos of the lake in order to write\, he says\, and ended up “fishing out a metaphor”. \nThe landscape seen from the Morges landing stage is that of Swiss literature: a beautiful expanse bounded by mountains\, and writers who gaze at the lake while dreaming of the sea. The Swiss book market is small\, divided by language\, and authors dream of being published abroad. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nLe Livre sur les Quais (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, speech of 04.09.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/inauguration-of-le-livre-sur-les-quais/
LOCATION:Morges
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150903
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150905
DTSTAMP:20261020T173008Z
CREATED:20261016T002244Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173008Z
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SUMMARY:Meeting of the health ministers of the German-speaking countries
DESCRIPTION:Third meeting of the “health quintet”\, after Münster in 2013 and the Kleine Scheidegg in 2014: Sabine Oberhauser (Austria\, host)\, Hermann Gröhe (Germany)\, Lydia Mutsch (Luxembourg)\, Mauro Pedrazzini (Liechtenstein) and Alain Berset. \nThe ministers discuss the availability of medicines and the long-term financing of health systems; their final declaration calls for new approaches to setting medicine prices. They address the refugee crisis: refugees must have access to care. And measles\, which Europe has the means to eliminate. \nThursday 3 September 2015 — Vienna\n\nWelcome by Minister Sabine Oberhauser and visit to the Spanish Riding School\n\nFriday 4 September 2015 — Vienna\n\nWorking session at the Albertina\nAdoption of the final declaration\, family photo\nPress conference\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 04.09.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/meeting-of-the-health-ministers-of-the-german-speaking-countries/
LOCATION:Vienne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150901
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150902
DTSTAMP:20261020T173008Z
CREATED:20261016T003038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173008Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of Fantoche\, the animated film festival
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the 13th edition of Fantoche\, which is celebrating its twentieth anniversary. One of the festival’s themes is entitled “Family – sweet and sour”: invited as minister of culture or as a member of the Federal Council family\, he leans towards the second hypothesis\, in the middle of an election year. \nHe salutes “Timber” by Nils Hedinger\, winner of the Swiss Film Award for Best Animated Film. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nOuverture de Fantoche\, festival international du film d’animation (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-fantoche-the-animated-film-festival/
LOCATION:Baden
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150831
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150901
DTSTAMP:20261020T173008Z
CREATED:20261016T002237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173008Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Food Industry Day (fial)
DESCRIPTION:Before the Federation of Swiss Food Industries\, Alain Berset talks salt and sugar. The Swiss consume on average nine grams of salt a day; the WHO recommends five. Working with the industry\, the salt content of bread has been brought below 1.5 grams per 100 grams\, “ohne dass es jemand gemerkt hat”. \nHe recalls the memorandum signed a month earlier at Expo Milano to reduce sugar in yoghurts and cereals\, without any new law. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nFédération des Industries Alimentaires Suisses (fial) (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, speech of 31.08.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-food-industry-day-fial/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150827
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150828
DTSTAMP:20261020T173008Z
CREATED:20261016T002233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173008Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Cities Day
DESCRIPTION:In Geneva\, before the Swiss Union of Cities\, Alain Berset introduces himself as a “Landei”: Belfaux\, where he lives\, has 2\,992 inhabitants. He borrows the image of the architect Rem Koolhaas: the medieval city is a hard-boiled egg\, the industrial city a fried egg\, the modern city scrambled eggs. \nMore than half of humanity lives in cities; the UN forecasts 75% by the middle of the century. Twenty years ago\, however\, it was being predicted that cities would empty. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nJournée des villes suisses (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, speech of 27.08.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-cities-day/
LOCATION:Genève
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150824
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150825
DTSTAMP:20261020T173007Z
CREATED:20261016T002229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173007Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Statistics Days
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the Swiss Statistics Days with Churchill: a politician must be able to predict what will happen tomorrow\, and then explain why it did not happen. \nFor the minister of social affairs\, health and culture\, statistics are a compass: without demographic scenarios\, no pension reform; without the FSO’s MARS project\, no measures against rising health costs. He quotes Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann: statistics are “das Informationsmittel der Mündigen”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nUnbeirrbar\, unbestechlich\, unaufgeregt: Die Statistik der Schweiz (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, speech of 24.08.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-statistics-days-2/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150821
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150822
DTSTAMP:20261020T173007Z
CREATED:20261016T003031Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173007Z
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SUMMARY:Interpharma: financing health from the perspective of Health2020
DESCRIPTION:Before Interpharma\, the association of research-based pharmaceutical companies\, Alain Berset recalls the industry’s first public appearance: a 25-metre tower at the 1939 Landi. \nOn substance: “Gesundheitspolitik bedeutet also nicht einfach Kosten senken.” But costs will keep rising: according to the Federal Finance Administration\, they will go from 11% of GDP today to almost 16% in 2060. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nInterpharma : le financement de la santé dans la perspective de Santé2020 (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/interpharma-financing-health-from-the-perspective-of-health2020/
LOCATION:Interlaken
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150805
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150811
DTSTAMP:20261020T173007Z
CREATED:20261016T002221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173007Z
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SUMMARY:68th Locarno Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:On 5 August\, on the Piazza Grande\, Alain Berset opens the festival: “In Switzerland\, the leopard is a protected animal.” Care must be taken\, he says\, that this big cat does not feed on popcorn alone. \nOn the 6th\, at a press conference\, he presents the new film funding regime for 2016–2020: the PICS programme\, with 27 million over five years for filming and post-production in Switzerland\, and an ordinance on international cooperation replacing the transitional solution adopted after the freeze of the MEDIA programme. “Exchanges with Europe are important and beneficial for Swiss cinema.” \nOn the 7th\, he speaks at the traditional reception at Monte Verità\, at the aperitif of the Federal Office of Culture (Parliament has just adopted the Culture Dispatch\, increasing its funding) and before the Leopard Club\, the festival’s circle of patrons. \nWednesday 5 August 2015 — Locarno\n\nMeeting with the festival management (Marco Solari\, Carlo Chatrian)\nOfficial inauguration\nOpening speech and opening film on the Piazza Grande\n\nThursday 6 August 2015 — Locarno\n\nPress conference with Isabelle Chassot\, Director of the Federal Office of Culture\, and Ivo Kummer\, Head of the Film Section\n\nFriday 7 August 2015 — Ascona and Locarno\n\nReception given by the festival in honour of the Federal Councillor\, Monte Verità: speech\nAperitif of the Federal Office of Culture: speech\nLeopard Club reception: speech\n\nSaturday 8 August 2015 — Locarno\n\nAperitif with federal parliamentarians\n\nSpeeches on this site \n\nOuverture du 68e Festival del film Locarno (French-language page)\nLocarno : réception du Monte Verità (French-language page)\nLocarno : apéritif de l’Office fédéral de la culture (in German\, French-language page)\nLocarno : réception du Leopard Club (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 06.08.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/68th-locarno-film-festival/
LOCATION:Locarno
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150804
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150806
DTSTAMP:20261020T173007Z
CREATED:20261016T002214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173007Z
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SUMMARY:Expo Milano 2015: agreement on sugar reduction
DESCRIPTION:At the Swiss Pavilion of Expo Milano\, devoted to food\, Alain Berset brings the food industry together for a round table on sugar reduction. The FDHA and ten companies (bio-familia\, Bossy Céréales\, Coop\, Cremo\, Emmi\, Migros\, Molkerei Lanz\, Nestlé Suisse\, Zwicky\, Wander) sign a memorandum of understanding: they will review the recipes of their yoghurts and breakfast cereals and set target values with the FSVO. \nHe then visits the Palazzo Italia\, where he signs the Milan Charter\, and other national pavilions. The next day\, he visits the “Arts & Foods” exhibition at the Triennale before going on to Locarno. \nTuesday 4 August 2015 — Milan\n\nVisit to the Swiss Pavilion with Dante Martinelli\, Switzerland’s Commissioner General for the Expo\nRound table with the food industry and signing of the memorandum on sugar reduction\nPress briefing\nSigning of the Milan Charter at the Palazzo Italia; visit to other pavilions\n\nWednesday 5 August 2015 — Milan\n\nVisit to the exhibition “Arts & Foods. Rituals since 1851”\, Triennale di Milano\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 04.08.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/expo-milano-2015-agreement-on-sugar-reduction/
LOCATION:Milan
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150802
DTSTAMP:20261020T173006Z
CREATED:20261016T002211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173006Z
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SUMMARY:National Day in Sierre and bicentenary of Valais
DESCRIPTION:On 1 August\, Alain Berset is in Sierre\, in the year of the 200th anniversary of Valais joining the Confederation. As “minister of meteorology”\, he salutes the sun on the town’s coat of arms and the Plaine Morte radar. \nHe takes up the same question as in Lindau: “How can we go on making competitiveness and solidarity rhyme?” And he urges his audience not to remain “frozen in our past and in our myths”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nLe réalisme renforce la Suisse (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, speech of 01.08.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/national-day-in-sierre-and-bicentenary-of-valais/
LOCATION:Sierre
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150731
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150801
DTSTAMP:20261020T173006Z
CREATED:20261016T002206Z
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SUMMARY:National Day in Lindau: realism strengthens Switzerland
DESCRIPTION:On the eve of 1 August\, Alain Berset speaks in Lindau\, in the canton of Zurich\, in “Früh-Deutsch”\, a nod to the debate on early language teaching. He tells the story of Julius Maggi\, who at 23 takes over the family mill in Kemptthal and\, rather than fight on prices\, invents a new food. \nSwitzerland\, too\, must ask itself the right questions: how to combine competitiveness and solidarity\, how to hold together an increasingly diverse society. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nRealismus stärkt die Schweiz (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, speech of 31.07.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/national-day-in-lindau-realism-strengthens-switzerland/
LOCATION:Lindau (ZH)
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150703
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150704
DTSTAMP:20261020T173005Z
CREATED:20261016T003023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173005Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the NIFFF. To get there\, he says\, took courage: the road passes through the Fribourg village of Misery\, and through a place called “la Morte”. Stephen King would approve. \nThe fantastic\, he recalls\, is one of the oldest genres in cinema: Méliès sends his heroes to the Moon in 1902\, Ashley Miller to Mars in 1909\, more than twenty years before King Kong. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nOuverture du Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival (French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-neuchatel-international-fantastic-film-festival/
LOCATION:Neuchâtel
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150625
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150626
DTSTAMP:20261020T173005Z
CREATED:20261016T002158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173005Z
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SUMMARY:Twenty years of the Federal Commission against Racism and launch of “Une Suisse à nos couleurs”
DESCRIPTION:The Federal Commission against Racism is twenty years old\, as is the criminal-law provision against racial discrimination. Together with Alain Berset\, it launches the campaign “Une Suisse à nos couleurs”\, against racism and discrimination on the Internet\, with a platform entrusted for six months to young people\, associations and companies. \n“It is also thanks to the Commission that we can talk about racism today\, as a social problem that is part of our daily lives\,” he says. The President of the FCR\, Martine Brunschwig Graf\, notes that social networks have given racism “a new resonance”. \nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 25.06.2015\nFCR\, press release of 04.06.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/twenty-years-of-the-federal-commission-against-racism-and-launch-of-une-suisse-a-nos-couleurs/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150618
DTSTAMP:20261020T173004Z
CREATED:20261016T002155Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173004Z
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SUMMARY:Visit by the Austrian Minister of Culture\, Josef Ostermayer
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset receives in Berne Josef Ostermayer\, Austrian Minister of Arts\, Culture\, Constitution and Media. They discuss artistic exchanges\, film cooperation and Switzerland’s participation in the MEDIA and Creative Europe programmes. They want to institutionalise a regular exchange on cultural policy. \nThe next day\, in Basel\, the two ministers visit the LISTE fair and Art Basel\, have lunch at the Fondation Beyeler with Guy Morin\, President of the Basel Government\, and visit the Paul Gauguin exhibition. \nTuesday 16 June 2015 — Berne\n\nOne-to-one meeting\, followed by talks between the delegations\n\nWednesday 17 June 2015 — Basel\n\nVisit to the LISTE fair\nWelcome at Art Basel by its director\, Marc Spiegler; visit to the “Unlimited” sector and to Swiss and Austrian galleries\nOfficial lunch at the Fondation Beyeler with Guy Morin\nVisit to the Paul Gauguin exhibition\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 17.06.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/visit-by-the-austrian-minister-of-culture-josef-ostermayer/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150615
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150616
DTSTAMP:20261020T173005Z
CREATED:20261016T002152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173005Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Art Awards
DESCRIPTION:At the opening of Art Basel\, Alain Berset presents the Swiss Art Awards; this year the Federal Office of Culture names eleven winners in art and eighteen in design. \nHe starts from the booming art market: one of Monet’s Water Lilies paintings has just sold for 54 million. “Man könnte meinen\, monetarisieren komme von ‘Monet’.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPrix suisses d’art (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, speech of 15.06.2015\nFederal Office of Culture\, press release of 15.06.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-art-awards/
LOCATION:Bâle
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150614
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150615
DTSTAMP:20261020T173004Z
CREATED:20261016T002148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173004Z
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SUMMARY:Vote on preimplantation genetic diagnosis
DESCRIPTION:The people and the cantons approve the amendment to the constitutional article on medically assisted reproduction. It paves the way for preimplantation genetic diagnosis\, which the law prohibited\, for couples carrying a serious hereditary disease and for infertile couples. \nAlain Berset\, who had presented the proposal on 23 March\, comments on the result at a press conference and in a video address. Parliament had adopted the article by 160 votes to 31 in the National Council and 34 to 8 in the Council of States. \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, dossier “Preimplantation genetic diagnosis”\nFDHA\, press release of 23.03.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/vote-on-preimplantation-genetic-diagnosis/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150611
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150612
DTSTAMP:20261020T173004Z
CREATED:20261016T003016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173004Z
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SUMMARY:INTERPRET celebration\, community interpreting
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset speaks at the celebration of INTERPRET\, the Swiss association for community interpreting and intercultural mediation. His theme: “Das Dazwischen wird unterschätzt.” \nThe in-between is a bridge\, a cement\, a pass between two players. Switzerland\, he says\, is not only a nation of will\, but “eine Nation der Übersetzerinnen und Übersetzer”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nFête d’INTERPRET\, association pour l’interprétariat communautaire (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/interpret-celebration-community-interpreting/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150608
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150609
DTSTAMP:20261020T173003Z
CREATED:20261016T003012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T173003Z
UID:47497-1433721600-1433807999@alainberset.ch
SUMMARY:Fiftieth anniversary of the Swiss Union of Liberal Professions
DESCRIPTION:At the Liberal Professions Day\, Alain Berset congratulates the Swiss Union of Liberal Professions on its fiftieth anniversary: he himself\, he says\, practises a non-liberal profession\, where decisions are taken collegially. \nHe recalls that in 1885 the head of the FDHA wanted to buy two typewriters; the Federal Council authorised only one. The Union\, he concludes\, is “eine Schweiz im Kleinen”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\n50 ans de l’Union suisse des professions libérales (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/fiftieth-anniversary-of-the-swiss-union-of-liberal-professions/
LOCATION:Berne
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