At the Museum Bellerive, Alain Berset presents the Swiss Design Awards for the first time, including three “Grand Prix Design”: Franco Clivio, the studio Gavillet & Rust and Karl Gerstner. He speaks of an “Aladdin’s cave” and defends the Confederation’s model for promoting design, a field in which, unlike others, cities and cantons are little […]
With WMO President David Grimes and Secretary-General Michel Jarraud, Alain Berset opens in Geneva the organisation’s first extraordinary congress in 62 years. MeteoSwiss then comes under the FDHA. The congress is to adopt the implementation plan of the Global Framework for Climate Services, without waiting for the ordinary congress of 2015. A subject that is […]
At the forum of the Capital Region Switzerland, Alain Berset pokes fun at the caution of the Mittelland: the Solothurn “S’isch immer so gsi”, the Bernese “Nume nid gsprängt”, the historian Fritz René Allemann’s mistrust of “Gstürm”. And yet, a vision. He defends it against the suspicion of naivety: Switzerland has also known phases of […]
Alain Berset speaks at the Swiss Goûts et Terroirs fair in Bulle. “Terroir naturally marks a sense of belonging. But taste sets people apart even more, for taste is a private matter.” He lets slip that he has “some – rare – disagreement” with the fair’s president, on public health issues linked to products “so […]
Alain Berset opens the Nestlé Institute of Health Sciences, near EPFL. He recalls that two thirds of Swiss research is privately funded, nearly twelve billion francs in 2008. He stands by the closeness between the Federal Institutes of Technology and companies, contested in Parliament, while acknowledging the questions it raises. Speeches on this site Nestlé […]
In the evening, Alain Berset opens Bédémania, the comics festival of Belfaux, his village. He has been coming “for years”, but speaks there for the first time as a Federal Councillor. Comics, he says, achieve “the feat of saying a lot in few words. A feat that not many politicians have mastered!” He cites Spiegelman […]
On 5 November, at a conference in Berne, Alain Berset concludes the consultation on reintroducing, for three years, the restriction on the admission of doctors. Since the freeze was lifted at the beginning of the year, applications for billing numbers have risen sharply. Dispatch to Parliament planned for the 2013 spring session. The next day, […]
Alain Berset travels to Paris for a working visit to Marisol Touraine, French Minister of Social Affairs and Health. He is accompanied by the Director of the FOPH. After the meeting at the ministry, the Swiss Embassy organises a small-group meeting at the residence. Friday 9 November 2012 — Paris Meeting with Marisol Touraine at […]
The annual conference of the swissnex science consulates is devoted to “brain circulation”. Alain Berset quotes Kissinger: “there is nothing more international than science”. 35% of scientific articles are the result of international cooperation. Half of the teaching staff at Swiss universities come from abroad. He defends openness to people, ideas and goods as the […]
Alain Berset opens the National Palliative Care Congress. “There are three things that concern every human being on this planet, whether pastry chefs, cosmonauts or Federal Councillors: being born, living and dying.” We prepare for birth, not for death. He calls for end of life to be given more attention again, in society as in […]
At the Dampfzentrale, Switzerland celebrates 40 years of the UNESCO Convention concerning the Protection of the World Heritage. The Swiss Commission for UNESCO presents the first book devoted to all the Swiss sites on the list. Alain Berset opens with Malraux: “The future is a present given to us by the past.” He recalls the […]
At the event organised by the SDC and the Swiss AIDS Federation, Alain Berset first says what Switzerland can be proud of: 25 years of the STOP AIDS campaign, now LOVE LIFE, and the harm reduction of the four-pillar policy, developed under Ruth Dreifuss. Then the problems that remain, including discrimination. For, as he reminds […]
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