Alain Berset opens the FIFF, two years after his last visit. He sums up the opening film, devoted to the Bhopal disaster, in a tweet, and from there speaks about the acceleration of modes of communication. The thread of the speech: “cinema does politics”. The Fribourg festival shows perspectives on the world from elsewhere. Speeches […]
At the Bernerhof, Alain Berset receives the Swiss delegation from the Sochi Paralympic Winter Games, some twenty people. He congratulates skier Christoph Kunz, gold medallist in the giant slalom, and the eight athletes who earned five diplomas. “As elite athletes, you are role models,” he tells them. His department includes the Federal Bureau for the […]
Alain Berset takes part in the Chaillot Forum, “Future of culture, future of Europe”, opened by François Hollande. The European culture ministers discuss digital technology, copyright, cultural diversity and the financing of creative work. “In Switzerland we are preparing our Culture Message 2016–2019. In this context, it is very interesting to see that most European […]
Alain Berset’s first working visit to Vienna, at the invitation of Health Minister Alois Stöger. With him, he prepares the second meeting of the German-speaking health ministers, scheduled in Switzerland in August, and discusses ongoing reforms, eHealth and prevention. At dinner, he opens with two health ministers meeting in a grand Viennese restaurant: “das dürfte […]
Back from Vienna, Alain Berset celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the Swiss Veterinary Service, three months after the creation of the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO). He starts from current events: African swine fever has reached Lithuania and Poland, and the FSVO restricted imports from 27 February. “Zum Glück gibt es das BLV!” […]
Alain Berset opens the Geneva Health Forum, devoted to global health: non-communicable diseases, emerging epidemics, access to medicines in disadvantaged countries, inequalities in access to care. He argues for cooperation between sectors and quotes Hubert Reeves: “To explore the field of the possible, tinkering is the most effective method.” Speeches on this site Ouverture du […]
The Federal Council receives some 70 athletes from the Sochi Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games at the Federal Palace: 12 medals and 30 diplomas, 7th place in the medal table. The President of the Confederation, Didier Burkhalter, gives the address; Alain Berset and Ueli Maurer, Minister of Sport, convey the government’s congratulations with him. Sources […]
One month before the vote, Alain Berset defends the constitutional article on primary medical care in Lucerne. He quotes the humanist Albrecht von Bonstetten, for whom Lucerne was “recht Nabel und das Mittel der Eidgenossenschaft”, and takes care to remain neutral between the carnivals of Lucerne and Basel. The argument: medicine needs both cutting-edge care […]
At the invitation of Greek Health Minister Spyridon-Adonis Georgiadis, whose country holds the EU Presidency, Alain Berset takes part in the informal meeting of health ministers. Switzerland is regularly invited. Two topics: migration and public health, then the economic crisis and health systems. Since 2002 Switzerland has run a national Migration and Health programme, extended […]
Alain Berset defends the article on primary medical care in Fribourg. He makes it concrete with a story: Mrs Jungo, 83, with a heart condition and diabetes, leaves hospital after a hip fracture and returns home, where she lives alone. Around her, a chain of professionals: physiotherapist, occupational therapist, home care, family doctor. The constitutional […]
At the invitation of the Ordine dei medici of the canton of Ticino, Alain Berset defends the constitutional article on primary medical care at the USI. He opens with Hermann Hesse: “L’arrivo a Lugano non è stato esaltante”, he wrote in 1927, before staying there for thirty-five years. He describes a family doctor’s waiting room, […]
Alain Berset speaks at the fundraising dinner of the International Institute for the Rights of the Child (IDE), in the presence of the President of the Valais government. He draws on Walter Benjamin’s “Berlin Childhood” to recall that the carefreeness of childhood is not given to everyone. Speeches on this site Souper de charité en […]
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