Together with Christian Frei, President of the Swiss Film Academy, Alain Berset opens the nominations night for the Swiss Film Award “Quartz 2012” at the Solothurn Film Festival. 33 nominees share nine categories. His message to the industry: “Die Zeit der Grabenkämpfe in der Filmbranche ist – vorerst – vorbei.” The new film funding schemes […]
At his first WEF as a Federal Councillor, Alain Berset focuses his talks on health, education and research. With John Dalli, European Commissioner for Health, he reviews the health issues between Switzerland and the EU; Dalli confirms the one-year extension of the agreement between the European Medicines Agency and Swissmedic, and accepts an invitation to […]
Alain Berset opens the new permanent exhibition of the Musée gruérien, a few kilometres from where he grew up. He says so: he has not come “with a heavy heart”. His point: roots are not a withdrawal; they allow “one’s gaze to rise higher”. Switzerland is only beginning to grasp the extent of its living […]
Alain Berset speaks at the gala dinner of the 11th French-speaking colloquium of the WHO Healthy Cities, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, one of the 90 “healthy cities” of the WHO European network. He defends the local level: the most important determinants of health are played out first in the city, its urban planning, its schools, its […]
Alain Berset’s first trip outside Europe. On 16 March, together with Singapore’s Minister for the Environment, Vivian Balakrishnan, he opens the new building of the Singapore-ETH Centre for Global Environmental Sustainability (SEC), the first research centre of a Swiss university in Asia. There the SEC runs the Future Cities Laboratory, devoted to planning more sustainable […]
At the 8th Trendtage Gesundheit in Lucerne, Alain Berset opens with an admission: according to the questionnaire on the organisers’ website, he is “ein schwieriger Fall”. He does not look up his symptoms on the internet and does not ask for a diagnosis on Facebook. “Ich bin zwar einer der jüngsten Bundesräte in der Geschichte, […]
Alain Berset opens the campaign for the revision of the Health Insurance Act on integrated care networks (managed care), put to the people on 17 June. He presents it with Carlo Conti, President of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Health Directors, and its Vice-President, Philippe Perrenoud. The Federal Council and Parliament recommend a yes. The […]
For the first time, Alain Berset addresses the cultural delegates of the cantons and cities and the private partners in cultural promotion, gathered in St. Gallen. He thanks business and patrons, whose commitment “sets an example”. He proposes a distinction borrowed from science: a “basic culture”, a field for experimentation that the Confederation must guarantee, […]
Alain Berset opens the 26th edition of the FIFF, the first under artistic director Thierry Jobin. He returns as a regular: his position has changed, “the pleasure of discovering new films” has remained. He defends the “right to diversity, artistic and human”: only 3 to 4% of the films shown in Switzerland come from neither […]
At the Rosengarten, Alain Berset takes stock of his first hundred days at the head of the FDHA and sets out his priorities. He states his line: people express a need for security, “and the most important security is first of all social security”. He describes a department tied to everyone’s daily life: social insurance, […]
Alain Berset speaks at the celebration of the 1400th anniversary of Gall’s arrival in St. Gallen. He rereads the legend: the fever that held back the Irish monk was probably an inner struggle, his refusal to follow his abbot Columbanus. He draws from it a lesson on freedom, quoting the preamble to the Constitution. “Freiheit […]
In the evening of the same day, Alain Berset opens the 18th edition of Visions du Réel in Nyon, for a few days the “international capital” of documentary film. He pays tribute to a place of formal freedom, with no imposed formats or running times, and recalls that documentary is a Swiss speciality, long a […]
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