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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130822
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130823
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SUMMARY:Epidemics Act and Health2020: campaign evening in Schaffhausen
DESCRIPTION:Back from China\, Alain Berset defends the Epidemics Act in Schaffhausen. He sets two answers against each other on the question of good politics: Max Weber’s\, passion\, responsibility\, a sense of proportion\, and the town’s motto\, “Lappi tue d’Auge uf!”. In Beijing and Shanghai\, he says\, people told him they envied the quality of the Swiss system. \nHe responds to fears of forced vaccination: everyone remains free to be vaccinated or not\, and for children\, it is the parents who decide. And he quotes Senator Moynihan: “Sie haben ein Recht auf Ihre eigene Meinung. Aber Sie haben kein Recht auf Ihre eigenen Fakten.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nSanté2020 et loi sur les épidémies : soirée de campagne à Schaffhouse (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/epidemics-act-and-health2020-campaign-evening-in-schaffhausen/
LOCATION:Schaffhouse
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130820
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130821
DTSTAMP:20261020T172926Z
CREATED:20261016T004826Z
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SUMMARY:Ambassadors’ Conference: “Politische Führung in einer komplexen Welt”
DESCRIPTION:Before more than 230 representatives of Switzerland abroad\, Alain Berset speaks about political leadership in the information age. The printing press\, he recalls\, made the Reformation possible when Luther only wanted a theological debate. The Internet will have consequences on the same scale. \nThree changes\, in his view: knowledge is becoming democratised\, which means involving staff more; the population is becoming more critical and demands transparency; and Switzerland\, the most complex political system in the world\, is also at the forefront of the digital revolution. “Orientierung ist nicht alles\, aber ohne Orientierung ist alles nichts.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nConférence des ambassadeurs 2013 : « Politische Führung in einer komplexen Welt » (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 19.08.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/ambassadors-conference-politische-fuhrung-in-einer-komplexen-welt/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130814
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130820
DTSTAMP:20261020T172926Z
CREATED:20261016T004822Z
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SUMMARY:Working visit to China
DESCRIPTION:Three months after Li Bin’s invitation in Geneva\, Alain Berset spends four days in Beijing and Shanghai\, with State Councillors Carlo Conti (Basel-Stadt)\, President of the GDK\, and Pierre-François Unger (Geneva)\, whose cantons have partnerships with Chinese hospitals\, and a medical technology delegation. On 15 August\, at Peking University\, he opens a conference on infectious diseases and vaccination. \nOn the 16th\, he holds talks with Vice-Minister Yin Li of the China Food and Drug Administration\, created in March: an agreement on food and medicine safety is envisaged. At the Ministry of Culture\, he holds talks with Vice-Minister Ding Wei\, then signs the bilateral agreement on cultural property\, against illicit trafficking. Talks also cover a social security agreement under negotiation\, useful for Swiss nationals posted to China. \nOn the 17th\, he speaks at the opening of the Chinese Health Forum\, then meets Li Bin: communicable and non-communicable diseases\, health workforce\, the Chinese reform launched in 2009\, Health2020. In Shanghai\, on the 18th\, he visits Shanghai East Hospital\, the Pro Helvetia office and galleries\, and meets artists\, curators and museum directors. \nThursday 15 August 2013 — Beijing\n\nLunch debate with experts on infectious diseases and vaccination\, Peking University\nOpening of the conference “Infectious Disease and Vaccination”\, address\nLecture at the medical school’s global health diplomacy course\nVisit to the Urs Meile gallery and meeting with artists\n\nFriday 16 August 2013 — Beijing\n\nTalks with Vice-Minister Yin Li\, China Food and Drug Administration\nTalks with the Vice-Minister of Human Resources and Social Security\nTalks with Vice-Minister of Culture Ding Wei\nSigning of the agreement on the protection of cultural property\nReception for the Swiss community at the residence of Ambassador Jacques de Watteville\, address\n\nSaturday 17 August 2013 — Beijing and Shanghai\n\nAddress at the opening of the Chinese Health Forum\nTalks with Li Bin\, Minister of Health\nPress briefing\n\nSunday 18 August 2013 — Shanghai\n\nVisit to Shanghai East Hospital\nVisit to the exhibition “Portrait of the Times – 30 Years of Chinese Contemporary Art” at the Power Station of Art\, round table with artists\, curators and museum and festival directors\nVisit to galleries and artists’ studios at Moganshan\nMeeting with representatives of the medical technology sector and of the Swiss community\, address\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 17.08.2013\nFederal Council\, press release of 12.08.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/working-visit-to-china/
LOCATION:Pékin
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130813
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130814
DTSTAMP:20261020T172926Z
CREATED:20261016T004819Z
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SUMMARY:Press conference: yes to the Epidemics Act
DESCRIPTION:On behalf of the Federal Council\, Alain Berset recommends accepting the revised Epidemics Act\, put to the vote on 22 September. The 1970 act no longer offers enough protection against threats such as SARS. The revision is to enable the Confederation and the cantons to act faster\, manage crises better and combat antibiotic resistance and hospital infections\, which cause some 2\,000 deaths a year. \nThe Basel State Councillor Carlo Conti brings the support of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Health Directors. Vaccination practice\, based on voluntary participation\, does not change; compulsory vaccination could only target specific groups\, in a crisis situation and for a limited period. \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 13.08.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/press-conference-yes-to-the-epidemics-act/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130807
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130811
DTSTAMP:20261020T172925Z
CREATED:20261016T004816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172925Z
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SUMMARY:66th Locarno Film Festival
DESCRIPTION:On 7 August\, on the Piazza Grande\, Alain Berset opens the first edition directed by Carlo Chatrian. The festival\, he says\, is “the gold prospector’s sieve”. He ends with the American critic Roger Ebert\, honoured at Locarno this year: there must be another world somewhere\, “a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live”. \nAt Monte Verità\, the same evening\, he evokes the community that lived there until 1914\, mocked by the press\, several of whose ideals have become the norm: “Artists are often condemned to be right before everyone else.” Before the Leopard Club\, he lists the Swiss contradictions\, an island of stability under international fire\, pragmatic and given to myth-making\, and suggests inviting Robert Redford\, while pointing out that the Federal Council has never discussed it. \nOn 8 August\, at a press conference\, he launches the discussion on a national cultural policy involving the Confederation\, the cantons and the cities; the FOC announces stronger support for screenwriting together with the SRG SSR and easier co-productions. On the 10th\, in Ascona\, he meets European Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou: a positive assessment of Swiss participation in the MEDIA programme\, which Switzerland wishes to renew. \nWednesday 7 August 2013 — Locarno and Ascona\n\nOpening speech of the festival on the Piazza Grande\nSpeech at the Monte Verità reception\n\nThursday 8 August 2013 — Locarno\n\nPress conference on cultural policy and cinema\n\nFriday 9 August 2013 — Locarno\n\nSpeech before the Leopard Club\n\nSaturday 10 August 2013 — Ascona\n\nTalks with Androulla Vassiliou\, European Commissioner for Education\, Culture\, Multilingualism and Youth\n\nSpeeches on this site \n\nOuverture du 66e Festival du film de Locarno (French-language page)\nFestival de Locarno : réception du Monte Verità (French-language page)\nFestival de Locarno : rencontre du Leopard Club (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 08.08.2013\nFederal Council\, press release of 10.08.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/66th-locarno-film-festival/
LOCATION:Locarno
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130801
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130802
DTSTAMP:20261020T172925Z
CREATED:20261016T004810Z
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SUMMARY:National Day in Rümlang
DESCRIPTION:On 1 August\, Alain Berset speaks in Rümlang\, in the canton of Zurich. The speech takes up the Stansstad one: the European crisis\, older workers\, a multipolar world\, the relationship with the European Union and the financial centre. \nHe adds a passage on Kleinjogg\, the 18th-century Zurich reforming farmer admired by Goethe. The conclusion does not change: “In der Schweiz steckt viel Vergangenheit. Aber noch viel mehr Zukunft!”
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/national-day-in-rumlang/
LOCATION:Rümlang
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130731
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130801
DTSTAMP:20261020T172925Z
CREATED:20261016T004808Z
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SUMMARY:National Day in Moudon
DESCRIPTION:The same evening\, in Moudon\, Alain Berset gives the French version of the Stansstad speech: “When the past carries the future”. The maxim “it was better before”\, he says\, does not answer the anxieties of an unstable era. \n“Closing the door and waiting until nothing works any more is not an attitude worthy of Switzerland. Because we are pragmatic people. And we have a spirit of reform!” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nFête nationale 2013 à Moudon : « Quand le passé est porteur d’avenir » (French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/national-day-in-moudon/
LOCATION:Moudon
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130731
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130801
DTSTAMP:20261020T172925Z
CREATED:20261016T004804Z
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SUMMARY:National Day in Stansstad
DESCRIPTION:A National Day speech against withdrawal. In troubled times\, says Alain Berset\, societies turn towards the past. He cites youth unemployment at 60% in southern Europe\, the difficulties of the over-50s in finding work again in Switzerland\, “eine Zeit-Bombe”\, and a world that has become multipolar. \nHe addresses the relationship with the European Union and the financial centre in the face of new international standards. His conclusion: the Swiss tradition also includes the spirit of reform. “Sich selbst zum Museum zu machen ist aber das Gegenteil einer vitalen\, zukunftsfähigen Politik.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nIn unserer Vergangenheit steckt sehr viel Zukunft (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 31.07.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/national-day-in-stansstad/
LOCATION:Stansstad
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130701
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130702
DTSTAMP:20261020T172924Z
CREATED:20261016T004801Z
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SUMMARY:French-speaking Swiss Trades and Crafts Days
DESCRIPTION:Before the Swiss Trade Association\, Alain Berset begins with the Paris metro station “Arts et Métiers”\, its portholes and copper plates: one could believe oneself in Captain Nemo’s Nautilus. SMEs\, he says\, are the heirs to this history\, the backbone of the economy and the guarantee of high-quality vocational training. \nHe defends Old-Age Provision 2020 there with a formula: “A pension is the wealth of the Swiss who have none.” And he recalls the half-century of struggle it took to create OASI in 1948\, with Alexandre Vinet: “The fools of the past are the wise men of the future”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nJournées romandes des arts et métiers : Prévoyance vieillesse 2020 (French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/french-speaking-swiss-trades-and-crafts-days/
LOCATION:Champéry
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130628
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130629
DTSTAMP:20261020T172924Z
CREATED:20261016T004757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172924Z
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SUMMARY:SODK assembly: Old-Age Provision 2020
DESCRIPTION:A week after the guidelines\, Alain Berset presents the reform to the cantonal directors of social affairs. He opens with Woody Allen\, who imagined living life backwards: starting out dead\, leaving the old people’s home too fit\, drawing a pension before working. \nThen the apprentice he met at Swissmem: “Du kannst auf deine Altersvorsorge zählen.” A promise fifty years ahead\, he admits\, but no majority will let this social achievement wither. He concludes: a Switzerland without responsible old-age provision would let its young people down. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nConférence des directrices et directeurs cantonaux des affaires sociales (CDAS) : Prévoyance vieillesse 2020 (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/sodk-assembly-old-age-provision-2020/
LOCATION:Emmetten
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130627
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130628
DTSTAMP:20261020T172924Z
CREATED:20261016T004753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172924Z
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SUMMARY:Forum Gesundheitswirtschaft Basel: for a policy of active ageing
DESCRIPTION:At the health economy forum of the tri-border region\, Alain Berset greets the German and French specialists in the “Champions-League-Stadt der Schweiz”. He is surprised that the most gratifying fact of all\, rising life expectancy\, is mainly discussed as a problem. \nHe therefore proposes a change of vocabulary: to speak of “longevity gains” rather than population ageing. His pronunciation is not yet optimal\, he admits\, but he has time to work on it\, thanks to the longevity gain. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nForum Gesundheitswirtschaft Basel : pour une politique du vieillissement actif (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/forum-gesundheitswirtschaft-basel-for-a-policy-of-active-ageing/
LOCATION:Bâle
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130621
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130622
DTSTAMP:20261020T172924Z
CREATED:20261016T004749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172924Z
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SUMMARY:Old-Age Provision 2020: the guidelines
DESCRIPTION:The Federal Council adopts the main lines of the reform. The Federal Department of Home Affairs presents them to the press. The aim: to maintain the level of benefits and consolidate financing\, through a comprehensive approach to the first and second pillars\, in a single dispatch. \nThe measures: a reference age of 65 for women as for men\, flexible retirement\, easier terms for low and middle incomes\, adjustment of the second-pillar conversion rate with compensation. A draft is to be sent out for consultation before the end of the year. \nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 21.06.2013\nFDHA\, press kit of 21.06.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/old-age-provision-2020-the-guidelines/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130620
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130621
DTSTAMP:20261020T172923Z
CREATED:20261016T004747Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172923Z
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SUMMARY:Swissmem Industry Day
DESCRIPTION:The Dutch researcher Geert Hofstede compared Swiss corporate culture to a “well-oiled machine”. Before the machine industry\, Alain Berset links the image to social partnership: the industry’s social partners have just concluded a new collective labour agreement\, for the first time with a minimum wage. \nHe meets apprentices there; one asks him whether he will be able to count on his pension. He will tell the story a week later before the cantons. His message to the industrialists: collective agreements and social insurance are guarantees of confidence in times of uncertainty\, and the Old-Age Provision 2020 reform seeks a balance of interests. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nSwissmem (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 20.06.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swissmem-industry-day/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130618
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130619
DTSTAMP:20261020T172923Z
CREATED:20261016T004743Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172923Z
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SUMMARY:Pro Senectute Lucerne: quality of life in old age
DESCRIPTION:Before Pro Senectute Lucerne\, on the theme “Lebensqualität im Alter – was leistet die Medizin?”\, Alain Berset starts from a young woman undergoing one cosmetic operation after another: “Ich will nicht alt werden.” At 65\, life expectancy is now 17 years for men and 21 years for women: old age has become a phase of life full of options. \nIt remains essential that ageing well does not become a luxury for the well-off. Health2020\, he says\, cannot stop time\, but it must take away what is threatening about it. He quotes Mae West: “Alt werden ist nichts für Feiglinge.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPro Senectute Lucerne : « Lebensqualität im Alter – was leistet die Medizin » (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/pro-senectute-lucerne-quality-of-life-in-old-age/
LOCATION:Lucerne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130610
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130611
DTSTAMP:20261020T172923Z
CREATED:20261016T004740Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172923Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Art Awards at Art Basel
DESCRIPTION:On the sidelines of Art Basel\, the Federal Office of Culture presents the Swiss Art Awards: 20 works honoured out of 568 entries\, and for the first time design included in the ceremony. Thomas Huber is among the winners of the Prix Meret Oppenheim. \nAlain Berset recalls that the Federal Art Commission counted Böcklin and Anker among its members in 1890\, and quotes Böcklin: “Nichts können ist noch lange keine neue Richtung!” He describes an art scene in which the divide between French and German speakers no longer means anything. Basel\, Zurich\, Geneva and Lausanne have become “hubs”. The Swiss artist no longer needs to flee the country: “Die „grosse weite Welt“ ist kein Ort. Sondern ein Zustand.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPrix fédéraux d’art 2013 : « Die Selbst-Entdeckung der Schweiz » (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 10.06.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-art-awards-at-art-basel/
LOCATION:Bâle
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130608
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130609
DTSTAMP:20261020T172923Z
CREATED:20261016T004736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172923Z
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SUMMARY:General assembly of the Union of Vaud Municipalities
DESCRIPTION:In Montricher\, at the foot of the Vaud Jura\, Alain Berset evokes the neighbouring Cluniac villages\, Romainmôtier first among them\, and the monks who introduced notions of social justice. “Without Cluny\, no Lavaux: imagine the catastrophe!” Empires pass\, he says; towns and villages remain. \nHe ends on federalism: it is for the municipalities to recall the diversity of the issues\, for the government to recall the unity of the whole. And on Ramuz: “One must not want to be above things\, one must want to be inside them”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\n104e assemblée générale de l’Union des communes vaudoises (French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/general-assembly-of-the-union-of-vaud-municipalities/
LOCATION:Montricher
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130606
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130607
DTSTAMP:20261020T172922Z
CREATED:20261016T004732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172922Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Economic Forum
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset starts from a silence: last year\, at this same podium\, no one had been able to say where Europe was heading. Never since 1914 has the situation there been so open. But politics and the economy\, he says\, are no longer adversaries: they pursue the same goals. \nHe argues for a comprehensive reform of old-age provision\, first and second pillars together: a package is not a high-risk strategy\, because it integrates particular interests into the general interest. And he quotes Mencken: for every complex problem there is an answer that is clear\, simple and wrong. “Die Schweiz ist das Land\, das auf komplexe Fragen komplexe Antworten gibt.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nSwiss Economic Forum (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 06.06.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-economic-forum-2/
LOCATION:Interlaken
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130605
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130606
DTSTAMP:20261020T172922Z
CREATED:20261016T004729Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172922Z
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SUMMARY:Bicentenary of the Swiss Veterinary Society
DESCRIPTION:The Swiss Veterinary Society is 200 years old. Alain Berset recalls the reaction of the wife of the Bishop of Worcester to Darwin’s theory: let us hope it is not true\, and if it is true\, that it does not become widely known. It did become known. \nHe mentions the bovine tuberculosis that reappeared in Switzerland this spring\, animal welfare and the partnership between vets and livestock farmers. Food safety\, he concludes\, “already begins in the cowshed”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\n200 ans de la Société des Vétérinaires Suisses (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 05.06.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/bicentenary-of-the-swiss-veterinary-society/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130603
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130604
DTSTAMP:20261020T172922Z
CREATED:20261016T004725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172922Z
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SUMMARY:Centenary of Post Tenebras Lux\, the Genevans of Bern
DESCRIPTION:The association of Genevans in Bern celebrates its hundredth anniversary. Alain Berset times the train journey: 1 hour 41 minutes\, of which he mainly knows the last 22. A hundred years ago\, Bern was for a Genevan a distant world\, “verdigris\, austere”\, where no wine was produced. \nThe time separating the two cities has shrunk; the constitutional framework\, for its part\, has not moved. He draws from it a reflection on majorities and minorities in the federal state\, and salutes the Genevans in the administration: “what would a watch movement be without Genevans?” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nCentenaire de Post Tenebras Lux : Genève\, Berne et les minorités (French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/centenary-of-post-tenebras-lux-the-genevans-of-bern/
LOCATION:Berne
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130601
DTSTAMP:20261020T172921Z
CREATED:20261016T004722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172921Z
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SUMMARY:First meeting of the German-speaking health ministers
DESCRIPTION:Born of an idea launched in Bern in October 2012 with Daniel Bahr\, the first meeting brings together in Münster the health ministers of Germany\, Austria (Alois Stöger)\, Luxembourg (Mars Di Bartolomeo) and Switzerland. On 31 May\, at the City Hall\, they are welcomed by the mayor and sign the city’s Golden Book. \nOn the agenda: organ donation\, with the Swiss campaign presented by Alain Berset; hospital financing and flat-rate payments per case; cancer registries\, for which the Swiss bill has just come out of consultation; long-term and cross-border care. The ministers decide to meet every year and to set up an expert group. Switzerland will host the 2014 meeting. \nThursday 30 May 2013 — Münster\n\nMinisters’ dinner at Schloss Wilkinghege\n\nFriday 31 May 2013 — Münster\n\nWelcome at the City Hall by Mayor Markus Lewe and signing of the Golden Book\nMinisters’ talks at the City Hall\nShort statement to the press\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 31.05.2013\nFederal Council\, press release of 28.05.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/first-meeting-of-the-german-speaking-health-ministers/
LOCATION:Münster
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130528
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130529
DTSTAMP:20261020T172921Z
CREATED:20261016T004719Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172921Z
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SUMMARY:Swiss Holiday Day
DESCRIPTION:Before the tourism industry\, gathered under the theme of the “sacred fire”\, Alain Berset recalls that the Swiss rejected more holidays two years earlier. He tells of Queen Victoria being carried up the Rigi in a sedan chair in 1868. \nThe substance: the list of Switzerland’s living traditions\, from the Fête des Vignerons to Hornussen and the Tschäggättä\, and the line between authenticity and kitsch. “Keep it real!” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nJournée suisse des vacances 2013 (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 28.05.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/swiss-holiday-day/
LOCATION:Berne
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130520
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130521
DTSTAMP:20261020T172921Z
CREATED:20261016T004715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172921Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of the 66th World Health Assembly
DESCRIPTION:At the Palais des Nations\, Alain Berset delivers the opening speech on behalf of the host country. The theme of the year: the place of health in the sustainable development agenda after 2015. “Sustainability” yields more than 100 million results online\, both gratifying and worrying: the word risks becoming an empty formula. Health\, he says\, is at once a precondition\, an indicator and an outcome of sustainable development. \nHe holds talks with the health ministers of India\, Ghulam Nabi Azad\, and of Lithuania\, Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis. The Chinese minister Li Bin invites him to China; he accepts for August. He also brings together UNICEF\, UNDP\, UNAIDS\, the Global Fund and the WHO on the role of International Geneva. \nIn the evening\, with Margaret Chan and Zsuzsanna Jakab\, he signs the first cooperation strategy between the WHO and Switzerland: non-communicable diseases\, health workforce\, WHO reform\, SDC priority countries\, International Geneva. Switzerland is the first industrialised country to formalise its cooperation with the WHO in this way. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nOuverture de la 66e Assemblée mondiale de la Santé (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 20.05.2013\nFederal Council\, press release of 16.05.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-the-66th-world-health-assembly/
LOCATION:Genève
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130516
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130517
DTSTAMP:20261020T172921Z
CREATED:20261016T004711Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172921Z
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SUMMARY:National Day of Primary Care Medicine
DESCRIPTION:Before family doctors\, students and junior doctors\, Alain Berset takes Leonardo da Vinci as the model of the generalist. Today\, 900\,000 medical articles are published every year: enough to push even Leonardo into specialisation. His formula: “Die Generalisten sind die Spezialisten für das Allgemeine.” \nPrimary care medicine\, he says\, must be reinvented and made more attractive\, because its practitioners are often the only ones with an overall view of the patient. Back to the Hippocratic corpus: health is an overall balance. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nJournée nationale de la médecine de premier recours (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/national-day-of-primary-care-medicine/
LOCATION:Berne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130509
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130510
DTSTAMP:20261020T172920Z
CREATED:20261016T004708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172920Z
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SUMMARY:First Swiss Literature Awards
DESCRIPTION:During the Solothurn Literary Festival\, Alain Berset presents the first Swiss Literature Awards. Erica Pedretti\, Jean-Marc Lovay and Fabio Pusterla are honoured for their life’s work; the Babel festival in Bellinzona receives two awards\, for translation and for literary mediation. \nHe starts from a doubt expressed by Ian McEwan about the point of the novel\, in the face of the industrial revolution or the Higgs boson\, and quotes Stendhal: politics in the midst of imagination “is a pistol shot in the middle of a concert”. In Italian\, to finish: “La pluralità non compromette l’unità. Ne amplia gli orizzonti.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPremiers Prix suisses de littérature : l’« imaginative Wärme » (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nRSI\, 10.05.2013\nFederal Council\, press release of 04.04.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/first-swiss-literature-awards/
LOCATION:Soleure
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130501
DTSTAMP:20261020T172920Z
CREATED:20261016T004704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172920Z
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SUMMARY:Migros consumer conference: “Das Essen und die Politik”
DESCRIPTION:The same day\, Alain Berset speaks at the Migros consumer day. He starts from Brillat-Savarin\, “Tell me what you eat”\, and from an English example: chicken tikka masala dethroned by the even faster Chinese wok. \nThen the figures from the nutrition report: overweight and obesity cost 5.8 billion francs a year; men\, young people and people with little education pay the least attention. “Es ist\, als lebten wir in zwei Gesellschaften.” He concludes: “Man nimmt ja auch nicht zwischen Weihnachten und Neujahr zu – sondern zwischen Neujahr und Weihnachten.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nConférence sur la consommation de la Migros (in German\, French-language page)
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/migros-consumer-conference-das-essen-und-die-politik/
LOCATION:Zurich
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130501
DTSTAMP:20261020T172920Z
CREATED:20261016T004700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172920Z
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SUMMARY:Laying of the foundation stone for the extension of the National Museum
DESCRIPTION:The National Museum in Zurich launches its new building\, designed by Christ & Gantenbein. Alain Berset welcomes the brass band and the slam that frame the ceremony: “Das ist ja fast wie Richard Wagner und Mani Matter!” \nHe rereads the history of Gustav Gull’s building\, born at the end of the 19th century when Switzerland was seeking to secure its identity in the face of neighbouring nationalisms. Switzerland had none of what they demanded: one language\, one culture\, a centralising capital. The annex\, he says\, is also a symbolic enlargement of memory: “Wir feiern ein entspanntes Verhältnis zu unserer nationalen Identität.” \nSpeeches on this site \n\nPose de la première pierre du Musée national de Zurich (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 30.04.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/laying-of-the-foundation-stone-for-the-extension-of-the-national-museum/
LOCATION:Zurich
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130428
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130429
DTSTAMP:20261020T172920Z
CREATED:20261016T004657Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172920Z
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SUMMARY:Guest of the Landsgemeinde of Appenzell Innerrhoden
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset represents the Federal Council at the Landsgemeinde\, in the year marking 500 years since Appenzell joined the Confederation. The minutes record cool\, overcast weather. He makes light of it: “Das Wetter heute ist schlecht\, obwohl MeteoSchweiz auch zu meinem Departement gehört.” \nAs the newest member of the Federal Council\, he asked what to expect. He was advised to concentrate above all on the procession step\, which many guests had found difficult. He expresses his admiration for a democracy in which government and people face each other\, and in which the people also take an oath: the common good is everyone’s business. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nLandsgemeinde d’Appenzell Rhodes-Intérieures (in German\, French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nCanton of Appenzell Innerrhoden\, minutes of the Landsgemeinde of 28.04.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/guest-of-the-landsgemeinde-of-appenzell-innerrhoden/
LOCATION:Appenzell
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130424
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130425
DTSTAMP:20261020T172919Z
CREATED:20261016T004653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172919Z
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SUMMARY:The Federal Council in the canton of Vaud and general assembly of the CVCI
DESCRIPTION:The Federal Council holds an ordinary meeting outside Bern at the Château de Prangins\, the seventh of its kind since 2010\, to mark 210 years since Vaud joined the Confederation. This is followed by a meeting with the population in Nyon and a lunch with the Council of State. \nIn the evening\, in Lausanne\, Alain Berset speaks before the general assembly of the Vaud Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He quotes Gilles\, “a very pretty canton”\, and recalls that Vaud was the first canton to grant women the right to vote\, in 1959. He defends innovation\, legislative as much as technological\, and compromise: “a compromise does not mean compromising oneself”. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nAssemblée générale de la Chambre vaudoise du commerce et de l’industrie (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 03.04.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/the-federal-council-in-the-canton-of-vaud-and-general-assembly-of-the-cvci/
LOCATION:Lausanne
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130424
DTSTAMP:20261020T172919Z
CREATED:20261016T004650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172919Z
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SUMMARY:Working visit to Paris: meeting with Marisol Touraine
DESCRIPTION:On the evening of 22 April\, at the residence of Ambassador Jean-Jacques de Dardel\, Alain Berset opens a lecture by Marc Spiegler\, Director of Art Basel\, before some 140 guests. Beforehand\, he answers questions from Swiss journalists. \nOn the 23rd\, he meets Marisol Touraine\, Minister of Social Affairs and Health\, at her ministry. At the centre: a framework agreement on cross-border health cooperation\, for which the Federal Council approved the negotiating mandate on 16 April. It is to set out the procedures and designate the areas of cooperation: pandemics\, training of medical staff\, cross-border care. The two ministers also discuss the WHO and the balance of pension systems. \nThe visit ends with an interview with TV5 Monde and a visit to the Centre culturel suisse. \nMonday 22 April 2013 — Paris\n\nInterviews with the Swiss press at the embassy\nWords of welcome and lecture by Marc Spiegler\, Director of Art Basel\, at the residence\n\nTuesday 23 April 2013 — Paris\n\nWorking meeting with Marisol Touraine\, Minister of Social Affairs and Health\nInterview with TV5 Monde\nVisit to the Centre culturel suisse\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, press release of 22.04.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/working-visit-to-paris-meeting-with-marisol-touraine/
LOCATION:Paris
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130419
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130420
DTSTAMP:20261020T172919Z
CREATED:20261016T004647Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261020T172919Z
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SUMMARY:Opening of Visions du Réel
DESCRIPTION:Alain Berset opens the documentary film festival with “the story of a little s”: the one in “Visions”\, which cannot be heard and which carries the festival’s identity\, diversity and subjectivity. \nHe quotes Robert Flaherty\, a pioneer of the genre: “Sometimes you have to lie to tell the truth.” Hence his formula: “there is no true objectivity except in declared subjectivity”. At a time when production costs are falling and screens are multiplying\, the festival recalls the importance of discovery and exchange. \nSpeeches on this site \n\nVisions du Réel 2013 (French-language page)\n\nSources \n\nFederal Council\, speech of 19.04.2013
URL:https://alainberset.ch/en/evenement/opening-of-visions-du-reel-2/
LOCATION:Nyon
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