Events

Ten days after taking office, Alain Berset brings the Federal Council’s congratulations to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) on its 60th anniversary. It is one of his first public appearances as head of the FDHA, then responsible for education and research. He recalls two figures: Switzerland, together with Finland, is world champion in the […]

On the Île Rousseau, Alain Berset opens the year marking the tercentenary of the birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. It is the first time he appears “as minister of culture”. He declines to give a eulogy: the point is not to bring Rousseau into the Panthéon, “he is already there”, but to “bring him out of […]