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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150313
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150314
DTSTAMP:20261020T172957Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Film Award: open letter to Jean-Luc Godard
DESCRIPTION:“Der Kreis” by Stefan Haupt wins four Quartz awards\, including Best Fiction Film. The Honorary Award goes to Jean-Luc Godard\, absent for health reasons\, who addresses the audience by video. \nAlain Berset reads an “Open letter to Jean-Luc Godard\, from the minister of culture with a c”\, echoing Godard’s 1966 letter to “André Malraux\, ministre de la Kultur”. “If I present you with an honorary award of Swiss cinema\, it is not so much you as I who am honoured.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPrix du cinéma suisse 2015 (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Office of Culture\, press release of 13.03.2015\nFDHA\, speech of 13.03.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-film-award-open-letter-to-jean-luc-godard/
LOCATION:Genève
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150303
DTSTAMP:20261020T172956Z
CREATED:20261016T003113Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172956Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Culinary Championships
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset speaks before the prize-giving of the Swiss Culinary Championships. The speech extends the metaphor: “Im Bundesrat haben wir sieben Köchinnen und Köche\, die politisch backen\, braten\, grillieren – zum Glück nicht einander.” \nSwiss democracy\, he says\, turns the proverb on its head: the more cooks\, the better. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nChampionnats suisses de cuisine (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-culinary-championships/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150302
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150303
DTSTAMP:20261020T172956Z
CREATED:20261016T002001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172956Z
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SUMMARY:Meeting with the Swiss Council of Religions
DESCRIPTION:After the Paris attacks in January\, Alain Berset receives the Swiss Council of Religions in Berne. He assures the communities that the Federal Council shares their concern at the rise of hostility towards people of the Muslim and Jewish faiths. \n“Social cohesion cannot be taken for granted\,” he says. He welcomes the calls for respect made by the Christian and Jewish communities and by the Muslim umbrella organisations\, and their condemnation of racism\, and invites them to step up interfaith dialogue. \nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 02.03.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/meeting-with-the-swiss-council-of-religions/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150220
DTSTAMP:20261020T172956Z
CREATED:20261016T001957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172956Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Literature Awards: Grand Award to Adolf Muschg
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset presents the Swiss Literature Awards for the third time. The Grand Award goes to Adolf Muschg\, novelist and essayist\, professor at ETH Zurich from 1970 to 1999. Awards go to Dorothee Elmiger\, Eleonore Frey\, Hanna Johansen\, Guy Krneta\, Frédéric Pajak\, Claudia Quadri and Noëlle Revaz; the special mediation prize to the “Roman des Romands”. \nHis speech is about Muschg’s critical patriotism\, his “intime Halb-Distanz” from Switzerland. He admits to having quoted him several times already without naming him. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nNoch bessere Fragen stellen. Adolf Muschgs Art des Patriotismus (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Office of Culture\, press release of 19.02.2015\nFDHA\, speech of 19.02.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-literature-awards-grand-award-to-adolf-muschg/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150131
DTSTAMP:20261020T172956Z
CREATED:20261016T001953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172956Z
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SUMMARY:Centenary of the Swiss Tenants’ Association
DESCRIPTION:The Swiss Tenants’ Association (ASLOCA / Mieterverband) celebrates its hundredth anniversary in Biel/Bienne\, where it was founded in 1915. Alain Berset speaks\, in German and in French. \nHe opens with the “professional bias” of a minister of social insurance: a centenary makes him think of OASI funding. He quotes Woody Allen\, then defends social mix in towns and neighbourhoods: “Outside social mix\, there is no salvation.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nCentenaire de l’ASLOCA Suisse (Mieterverband) (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nSRF\, January 2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/centenary-of-the-swiss-tenants-association/
LOCATION:Bienne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150126
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150127
DTSTAMP:20261020T172955Z
CREATED:20261016T001949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172955Z
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SUMMARY:Second Health2020 national conference: coordinated care
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens and closes the second Health2020 national conference\, devoted to the coordination of care. Around 10% of patients account for 70 to 80% of care; they are often chronically ill\, and for them poorly coordinated care means lower quality\, unnecessary treatment and superfluous costs. \nHe opens with the Davos Forum\, where the world was described as “kaum mehr steuerbar”: a phrase that sounds familiar to a health minister. In closing\, he returns to the patient testimonies shown during the day: the family doctor and the specialist who do not talk to each other\, the data that do not circulate. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nDeuxième conférence nationale Santé2020 (in German\, French-language page)\nDeuxième conférence nationale Santé2020 : mot de clôture (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 26.01.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/second-health2020-national-conference-coordinated-care/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150122
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150123
DTSTAMP:20261020T172955Z
CREATED:20261016T001943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172955Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of the 50th Solothurn Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:Back from Davos\, Alain Berset opens the fiftieth Solothurn Film Festival. His speech\, in German\, makes the event a mirror of the country: “Wer die Geschichte der Solothurner Filmtage kennt\, versteht die Schweiz.” \nThe films shown over fifty years are\, he says\, seismographs of the Swiss state of mind: the Switzerland of rapid change and the Switzerland of traditions\, real or invented. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nLes Journées de Soleure (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, speech of 22.01.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-50th-solothurn-film-festival/
LOCATION:Soleure
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150121
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150123
DTSTAMP:20261020T172955Z
CREATED:20261016T001939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172955Z
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SUMMARY:World Economic Forum: talks with Li Keqiang and agreement with China on health products
DESCRIPTION:On 21 January\, at Davos town hall\, Alain Berset joins Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf in the talks between the President of the Confederation\, Simonetta Sommaruga\, and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang. The two countries are celebrating 65 years of diplomatic relations; an agreement abolishing visas for diplomatic passports is initialled. \nImmediately afterwards\, Alain Berset signs with Zhang Yong\, Minister of the China Food and Drug Administration\, a cooperation agreement on foodstuffs\, medicines\, medical devices and cosmetics. Its implementation involves the FOPH\, Swissmedic\, the FSVO and SECO. \nOn the margins of the Forum\, he holds several bilateral meetings\, including one with the German Health Minister\, Hermann Gröhe. \nWednesday 21 January 2015 — Davos\n\nTalks between the President of the Confederation and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang\, town hall\nSigning of the cooperation agreement with Zhang Yong\, Minister of the CFDA\nMeeting with Sigmar Gabriel\, German Vice-Chancellor\nMeeting with Martin Schulz\, President of the European Parliament\n\nThursday 22 January 2015 — Davos\n\nMeeting with Thomas Jordan\, Chairman of the Swiss National Bank\nMeeting with Hermann Gröhe\, German Health Minister\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 20.01.2015\nFederal Council\, press release of 21.01.2015\nFDHA\, press release of 17.09.2015 (recalling the signing of 21.01)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/world-economic-forum-talks-with-li-keqiang-and-agreement-with-china-on-health-products/
LOCATION:Davos
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20150119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20150120
DTSTAMP:20261020T172954Z
CREATED:20261016T001935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172954Z
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SUMMARY:National meeting on equal pay in the public sector
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the national meeting of municipal\, cantonal and federal executives on equal pay in public administration and public procurement. He stresses the public sector’s role as a model: the Confederation\, the cantons and the communes must step up their efforts and send a clear signal to all employers. \nThe figures on the table: in 2012\, women employed in the public sector earn 13.6% less than men\, 18.9% less in the private sector. According to an IDHEAP report\, 64% of cantonal and communal administrations say they check their pay practices or intend to do so; only eleven monitor public procurement. \nIn his address: “The aim is to make Article 8\, paragraph 3 of the Constitution more than a pious wish… a reality.” The President of the Conference of Cantonal Governments\, Jean-Michel Cina\, undertakes to raise awareness among the cantons. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nRencontre nationale sur l’égalité salariale dans le secteur public (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 19.01.2015
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/national-meeting-on-equal-pay-in-the-public-sector-2/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141218
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141219
DTSTAMP:20261020T172954Z
CREATED:20261016T005333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172954Z
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SUMMARY:Round table on quality of care
DESCRIPTION:After the consultation on the plan for a national centre for quality\, launched by the Federal Council in May\, Alain Berset brings together cantons\, doctors’ associations and other health stakeholders. \nThe principle of a stronger commitment by the Confederation to quality and patient safety meets with consensus; the form of its implementation divides the some 150 opinions submitted. The round table looks for formulas involving the partners more closely. \nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 18.12.2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/round-table-on-quality-of-care/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141207
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141210
DTSTAMP:20261020T172954Z
CREATED:20261016T005330Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172954Z
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SUMMARY:Working visits to Norway and Finland
DESCRIPTION:In two days\, Alain Berset meets six ministers and a state secretary. In Oslo\, with Health Minister Bent Høie: quality of care\, cancer registry\, electronic patient record\, antibiotic resistance. With Culture Minister Thorhild Widvey: cultural exports and private contributions. With State Secretary Torkil Åmland: flexible retirement. With Equality Minister Solveig Horne\, he proposes an exchange on the assessment of pay discrimination. \nIn Helsinki\, he proposes to Finland an exchange on the mechanism for setting medicine prices. There he meets the Ministers of Health and Social Affairs Susanna Huovinen and Laura Räty\, and the Minister of Culture Pia Viitanen. \nMonday 8 December 2014 — Oslo\n\nWorking breakfast with Bent Høie\, Minister of Health and Care Services\nVisit to the exhibition “Europe\, Europe” at the Astrup Fearnley Museum\nVisit to the Oslo Opera House\nTalks with Thorhild Widvey\, Minister of Culture\nTalks with Torkil Åmland\, State Secretary for Labour and Social Affairs\nTalks with Solveig Horne\, Minister of Children\, Equality and Social Inclusion\n\nTuesday 9 December 2014 — Helsinki\n\nTalks with Susanna Huovinen\, Minister of Health and Social Services\nTalks with Pia Viitanen\, Minister of Culture and Housing\nLunch with Finnish public figures\nTalks with Laura Räty\, Minister of Social Affairs and Health\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 09.12.2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/working-visits-to-norway-and-finland/
LOCATION:Oslo
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141202
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141203
DTSTAMP:20261020T172954Z
CREATED:20261016T005328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172954Z
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SUMMARY:Meeting with Syriac Orthodox Patriarch Ignatius Ephrem II
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset receives in Bern the Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church\, Ignatius Ephrem II Karim\, on a pastoral visit to Switzerland. \nThe Patriarch describes the situation of the Christian minorities in Syria and Iraq\, persecuted by jihadist groups. Alain Berset recalls that the rights of religious and ethnic minorities are principles of the rule of law\, and presents Switzerland’s humanitarian engagement in the region since 2011. \nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 02.12.2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/meeting-with-syriac-orthodox-patriarch-ignatius-ephrem-ii/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141201
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141202
DTSTAMP:20261020T172953Z
CREATED:20261016T005325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172953Z
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SUMMARY:Ten years of the Disability Discrimination Act
DESCRIPTION:The FDHA brings together some 150 people\, including many experts with disabilities\, to mark ten years of the Disability Discrimination Act. The motto of the International Day on 3 December: “We too have our say”. \nAlain Berset makes the participation of people with disabilities a test for Switzerland\, “the country where everyone has their say”. He announces a new strategy that will make equality for people with disabilities a cross-cutting issue. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nParticiper rime avec codécider (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 01.12.2014\nFDHA\, speech of 01.12.2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/ten-years-of-the-disability-discrimination-act/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141126
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141127
DTSTAMP:20261020T172953Z
CREATED:20261016T005322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172953Z
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SUMMARY:Reception for Claude Hêche\, President of the Council of States
DESCRIPTION:For the first time\, a citizen of Jura becomes president of one of the chambers of the Federal Assembly. Alain Berset speaks at the reception for Claude Hêche in Jura: “this day is a historic day”. \nHe recalls the long period of tension that began in 1947 and the role of poets in the emancipation of Jura\, quoting the “Ode au pays qui ne veut pas mourir”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nClaude Hêche (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, speech of 26.11.2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/reception-for-claude-heche-president-of-the-council-of-states/
LOCATION:Courroux
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141119
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141120
DTSTAMP:20261020T172952Z
CREATED:20261016T005318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172952Z
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SUMMARY:Old-Age Provision 2020: the dispatch to Parliament
DESCRIPTION:The Federal Council adopts the dispatch on the Old-Age Provision 2020 reform and submits it to Parliament. The first and second pillars are reformed together. \nThe main measures: a reference age of 65 for women and men; retirement chosen between 62 and 70\, full or partial; adjustment of the minimum conversion rate in occupational pensions\, with compensatory measures; additional financing for OASI. On the same day\, the Federal Council rejects the “AHVplus” initiative. \nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 19.11.2014\nFDHA\, press release of 19.11.2014 (AHVplus)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/old-age-provision-2020-the-dispatch-to-parliament/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141101
DTSTAMP:20261020T172952Z
CREATED:20261016T005315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172952Z
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SUMMARY:Inauguration of the new Geneva Ethnography Museum
DESCRIPTION:The new MEG building opens on the evening of 31 October. Alain Berset speaks in the presence of the Peruvian Minister of Culture: the exhibition “Les rois mochica” was born of a collaboration between the two countries. \nHe opens with the ethnologist Marcel Appenzzell\, who set off in 1932 to observe the Kubus of Sumatra\, who constantly avoided him: a parable on encountering the other\, the guiding thread of an ethnography museum. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nInauguration du nouveau Musée d’ethnographie de Genève (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nAtelier Brückner\, press release of 30.10.2014 (opening date)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/inauguration-of-the-new-geneva-ethnography-museum/
LOCATION:Genève
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141101
DTSTAMP:20261020T172951Z
CREATED:20261016T005311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172951Z
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SUMMARY:EDK assembly: national languages at school
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset takes part in the annual assembly of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education\, at the Basel Fair\, at a time when several German-speaking cantons are calling into question the early teaching of French. \nHe takes a clear position: if harmonisation is no longer guaranteed\, “wird der Bund von seiner subsidiären Kompetenz Gebrauch machen\, die ihm die Verfassung gibt”. Federalism\, he says\, does not mean that everyone does what they like on their own territory\, whatever it costs Switzerland. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nAssemblée plénière de la CDIP : l’enseignement des langues nationales (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nCanton of Basel-Stadt\, press release of October 2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/edk-assembly-national-languages-at-school/
LOCATION:Bâle
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141029
DTSTAMP:20261020T172951Z
CREATED:20261016T005308Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172951Z
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SUMMARY:Old-Age Provision 2020 before the ASIP
DESCRIPTION:The Swiss Pension Fund Association asks the question: “Altersvorsorge 2020 – zielführender Weg oder vorprogrammierter Absturz?”. Alain Berset thanks it for the question mark. \nBefore second-pillar specialists\, he can\, for once\, go into the detail without restraint: conversion rate\, intervention mechanism\, abolition of the coordination deduction\, three weeks before the adoption of the dispatch. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPrévoyance vieillesse 2020 devant l’Association suisse des institutions de prévoyance (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/old-age-provision-2020-before-the-asip/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20141019
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20141022
DTSTAMP:20261020T172951Z
CREATED:20261016T005304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172951Z
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SUMMARY:6th ASEM Culture Ministers’ Meeting
DESCRIPTION:For the first time\, Switzerland\, a member of ASEM since 2012\, takes part in the meeting of culture ministers from Asia and Europe\, devoted to the creative industries. In Switzerland\, in 2011\, they accounted for more than 260\,000 jobs in some 70\,000 companies. \nOn the sidelines\, Alain Berset holds talks with the Dutch Minister of Culture\, Jet Bussemaker; with the Chinese Vice-Minister of Culture\, Ding Wei\, on Pro Helvetia’s Shanghai office and the cultural property agreement signed in Beijing in 2013; with Latvian representatives ahead of the Latvian EU Presidency; and with the Flemish Minister of Culture\, Sven Gatz\, on language issues. \nMonday 20 October 2014 — Rotterdam\n\nOpening ceremony\nPlenary session on the creative industries: statement by Switzerland\nTalks with Rihards Kols\, Parliamentary Secretary of the Latvian Ministry of Culture\nTalks with Jet Bussemaker\, Dutch Minister of Education\, Culture and Science\nTalks with Sven Gatz\, Flemish Minister of Culture\nWorkshop “Creative Entrepreneurs”\nTalks with Ding Wei\, Chinese Vice-Minister of Culture\, at the Nederlands Fotomuseum\nWelcome dinner at the City Hall\n\nTuesday 21 October 2014 — Rotterdam\n\nVisit to Codarts\, university of the performing arts\n\nSources \n\nSchweizer Musikzeitung\, October 2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/6th-asem-culture-ministers-meeting/
LOCATION:Rotterdam
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140928
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140929
DTSTAMP:20261020T172951Z
CREATED:20261016T005301Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172951Z
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SUMMARY:Popular vote: public health insurance fund rejected
DESCRIPTION:The people and the cantons reject the initiative “For a public health insurance fund”\, with 61.8% voting no. Four French-speaking cantons accept it\, led by Jura. \nThe Federal Council\, through the FDHA\, had recommended rejection: the system of 61 private insurers has proved its worth\, and the reforms under way\, including the Health Insurance Supervision Act\, are correcting its weaknesses. \nSources \n\nSwissvotes\, vote of 28.09.2014\nFDHA\, press release of 16.06.2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/popular-vote-public-health-insurance-fund-rejected/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140923
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140924
DTSTAMP:20261020T172950Z
CREATED:20261016T005259Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172950Z
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SUMMARY:Regional Conference for Europe of the World Organisation for Animal Health
DESCRIPTION:In Bern\, Alain Berset opens the 26th conference of the OIE Regional Commission for Europe\, bringing together delegates from more than fifty states in Europe and Central Asia. The year is that of the centenary of the Swiss Veterinary Service and of the creation of the FSVO. \nHe stresses the importance of the international alert network against animal epidemics. The delegates discuss African swine fever in Eastern Europe and the preparedness of veterinary services for crises. \nSpeeches on this site \n\n26e Conférence régionale pour l’Europe de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé animale (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFSVO\, press release of 29.09.2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/regional-conference-for-europe-of-the-world-organisation-for-animal-health/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140921
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140922
DTSTAMP:20261020T172950Z
CREATED:20261016T005255Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172950Z
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SUMMARY:1\,500 years of the Abbey of Saint-Maurice
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset takes part in the 1\,500th anniversary jubilee of the Abbey of Saint-Maurice\, founded in 515. He opens with a sonnet by Louise Labé: only a great love\, he says\, could have given rise to this place. \nHe praises the architecture of the basilica set against the cliff\, the teaching of the college and the abbey’s treasury\, and makes tolerance and education “ingredients of culture” against conflict. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nJubilé des 1500 ans de l’Abbaye de Saint-Maurice (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, speech of 21.09.2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/1500-years-of-the-abbey-of-saint-maurice/
LOCATION:Saint-Maurice
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140919
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SUMMARY:First Swiss Grand Award for Music
DESCRIPTION:At the Lausanne Opera\, the FOC presents the Swiss Grand Award for Music for the first time\, in the presence of Alain Berset. The winner\, chosen from fifteen nominees\, is Franz Treichler of the Young Gods; the award carries 100\,000 francs. \n“The most impatient will say: At last! The others will say: There we are.” He points out the paradox: music\, one of the oldest arts\, receives the last of the Swiss culture awards. And he sums up the country’s diversity in one sentence: “A piano has no accent.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPremier Grand Prix suisse de musique (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Office of Culture\, press release of 19.09.2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/first-swiss-grand-award-for-music/
LOCATION:Lausanne
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140919
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SUMMARY:Opening of the Comptoir Suisse
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the Comptoir Suisse\, whose guest of honour is the Swiss National Park. He begins by quoting the speech given at the same place in 1962 by the Vaud Federal Councillor Paul Chaudet\, chiselled in a “technical federal language”. \nHe uses it to talk about the role of national fairs in a prosperous country\, with a passage on wine-growing. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nOuverture du Comptoir Suisse 2014 (French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-comptoir-suisse/
LOCATION:Lausanne
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140917
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SUMMARY:Distinction romande d’architecture
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset presents the Distinction romande d’architecture. He opens with a story by Thomas Bernhard\, in “The Voice Imitator”: the mayors of Pisa and Venice wanted to swap the leaning tower and the campanile\, and ended up committed to an asylum. \nFrom it he draws a reflection on the link between architecture\, place and identity. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nDistinction romande d’architecture (French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/distinction-romande-darchitecture-2/
LOCATION:Fribourg
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140912
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SUMMARY:Swiss Media Congress
DESCRIPTION:At the publishers’ congress\, Alain Berset gives his clearest speech of the year on Swiss identity: “Verschweizerung – aber richtig!”. He opens with Einstein: if the world were to end\, he would want to be in Switzerland\, where everything happens a little later. \nGlobalisation and Europeanisation are questioning Swiss identity. “Die einfachste Antwort wäre natürlich Nationalismus.” But multilingual Switzerland cannot answer “Wir sind wir!”. He also reminds the publishers of their responsibility towards the French-language press\, naming Ringier and Tamedia. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nCongrès des médias suisses (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, speech of 12.09.2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-media-congress/
LOCATION:Interlaken
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140911
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140912
DTSTAMP:20261020T172949Z
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SUMMARY:Visit by Austrian minister Rudolf Hundstorfer
DESCRIPTION:Five months after Vienna\, Alain Berset receives the Austrian Minister of Labour and Social Affairs\, Rudolf Hundstorfer\, in Fribourg. On the agenda: Old-Age Provision 2020\, demographic ageing and invalidity insurance. \nTo show reintegration in practice\, the two ministers visit a crêperie that employs people with disabilities and a centre for socio-professional integration. The Austrian minister had met Johann N. Schneider-Ammann in Bern that morning. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nDéjeuner avec le ministre autrichien des affaires sociales Rudolf Hundstorfer (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA and EAER\, press release of 11.09.2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/visit-by-austrian-minister-rudolf-hundstorfer/
LOCATION:Fribourg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140909
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140910
DTSTAMP:20261020T172948Z
CREATED:20261016T005232Z
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SUMMARY:First culture summit of the parliamentary group for culture
DESCRIPTION:The parliamentary group for culture holds its first “Kulturgipfel”\, devoted to the Culture Message 2016–2019. Alain Berset compares the exercise to mountaineering: one meets political pitfalls\, perhaps crevasses. He quotes Daudet’s Tartarin\, who is told that Switzerland is an open “Kursaal”. \nThe substance concerns cohesion and languages: “Wenn wir die Sprachfrage nicht mehr ernst nehmen\, schwächen wir die Schweiz von innen.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPremier sommet culturel : la Suisse\, pays de la créativité (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/first-culture-summit-of-the-parliamentary-group-for-culture/
LOCATION:Berne
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140821
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140823
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SUMMARY:Meeting of the German-speaking health ministers
DESCRIPTION:At the Kleine Scheidegg\, facing the Eiger\, the Mönch and the Jungfrau\, Alain Berset hosts the “health quintet”: Hermann Gröhe (Germany)\, Alois Stöger (Austria)\, Lydia Mutsch (Luxembourg) and Mauro Pedrazzini (Liechtenstein). It is the second meeting\, after Münster in 2013\, and the first with five participants. \nThe ministers discuss quality and patient safety: in Switzerland\, some 70\,000 hospital patients a year contract a hospital-acquired infection. They also discuss dementia care. Their final declaration provides for stronger exchanges. \nThursday 21 August 2014 — Lauterbrunnen and Kleine Scheidegg\n\nJourney by historic train from Lauterbrunnen to the Kleine Scheidegg\nPresentation of the FOPH campaigns against measles and antibiotic resistance\nMinisters’ dinner: dinner speech\n\nFriday 22 August 2014 — Kleine Scheidegg\n\nWorking session on hospital-acquired infections and quality transparency\, with a presentation by Professor Andreas F. Widmer of the University Hospital Basel\nSession on dementia strategies\, introduced by Hermann Gröhe\nMedicine prices and preparation of the 2015 meeting in Austria\, introduced by Alois Stöger\nAdoption of the final declaration\n\nSpeeches on this site \n\nRencontre des ministres de la santé germanophones : dîner à la Petite Scheidegg (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, press release of 18.08.2014\nFDHA\, press release of 22.08.2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/meeting-of-the-german-speaking-health-ministers/
LOCATION:Petite Scheidegg
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140816
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140817
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SUMMARY:92nd Congress of the Swiss Abroad
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset addresses the 92nd Congress of the Swiss Abroad. He opens with a list: without the Swiss Abroad\, no Ritz hotel\, no Chevrolet\, no Golden Gate Bridge\, no Madame Tussaud. If they formed a canton\, with nearly 750\,000 people\, it would be the fourth largest in the country. \nHis title states the point: “Niemand kennt die Schweiz so gut wie die Auslandschweizer”. He stresses the Swiss schools abroad: “Bildung ist unsere wichtigste Ressource.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nNiemand kennt die Schweiz so gut wie die Auslandschweizer (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFDHA\, speech of 16.08.2014
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/92nd-congress-of-the-swiss-abroad/
LOCATION:Baden
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