Alain Berset: from Swiss neutrality to European moral bureaucracy
There are careers that shine a light on a country. And others that reveal a drift. Alain Berset did not leave the Swiss political scene by chance: he was recycled. Recycled into a supranational institution that claims to defend democracy while neutralising the people, freedoms while monitoring opinions, the law [...].
RTS-SRF: when the Swiss public service becomes a relay for foreign propaganda
There are silences that betray. And there are editorial choices that are democratically accountable. RTS (SRF), financed by billions of francs taken from Swiss citizens every year, has long ceased to fulfil its mission of providing pluralist information on the war in Ukraine. Instead, it is lining up its stories [...]
Martin Pfister or the art of dissolving Swiss neutrality
You don't destroy Swiss neutrality with a vote. You empty it from within. In the space of a few weeks, under the guise of a “growing threat”, Martin Pfister - a complete stranger to the general public before his appointment - is in the process of making a historic shift: sliding the Swiss army into the orbit of the EU and NATO, without [...].
Slaughter to obey: when Europe organises the liquidation of agriculture
208 cows to be slaughtered for a single case of disease. Farmers surrounded by police. European regulations applied without nuance, without debate, without common sense. What is happening today in the French countryside is not just a simple agricultural episode: it is a methodical offensive against the farming community, carried out in the name [...].
Switzerland-EU: When the Confederation organises long-term political irresponsibility
Hans-Ulrich Bigler's article published on Nau.ch lays bare what many have sensed but which the Federal Council has never clearly admitted: Switzerland is committed to a legal mechanism of irreversible migration and social exclusion, the budgetary effects of which are deliberately minimised - even concealed - to the point of denial. Behind the technocratic vocabulary of the future [...]
The Raven, the Fox and the Swiss Cheese - A modern fable of a sovereignty under siege
On the branch of history, Switzerland still holds its cheese. A rare cheese: its political freedom, its strong currency, its armed neutrality, its direct democracy. And the fox is advancing against it, hungry for power, standards, competence and submission. He does not roar. He flatters. He promises. He entices. Like a [...]
Switzerland-EU: the illusion of control... and the demographic time bomb
There are shifts that make no noise. No tanks, no coup d'état, no visible collapse. Just numbers, treaties, directives, “technical adjustments”. And yet these are the things that profoundly transform a country. The interview with the economist Rainer Eichenberger published by 20 Minuten is not a [...]
When the FER renounces the truth: a plea for Unilateral Agreements III
When those who claim to defend the economy of French-speaking Switzerland start talking like Brussels« mouthpieces, it becomes urgent to set the record straight. By supporting the »new agreements" with the European Union, the Fédération des Entreprises Romandes is not defending SMEs or Swiss prosperity: it is endorsing a legal tutelage [...].