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by Michael Straumann,* Switzerland
(2 February 2025) In 2021, the Swiss rejected the e-ID Act. The Federal Council and parliament are now trying to push the electronic identity through with a new Act. – It is not the citizens who are delegitimising the state, it is the state itself.
by Professor Glenn Diesen,* Norway
(2 February 2025) The international system during the Cold War was organised under extremely zero-sum conditions. There were two centres of power with two incompatible ideologies that relied on continued tensions between two rival military alliances to preserve bloc discipline and security dependence among allies. Without other centres of power or an ideological middle ground, the loss for one was a gain for the other. Yet, faced with the possibility of nuclear war, there were also incentives to reduce the rivalry and overcome the zero-sum bloc politics.
by Pierre Lévy,* France
(2 February 2025) (CH-S) In the past months and in the months to come, government elections have been and will be held in several EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe. This concerns Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic.
Pierre Lévy is a French journalist who has been critically following and describing developments in the European Union for many years.
In this article, he analyses the political situation in the aftermath of the recent presidential election in Croatia.
by Jean-Pierre Saw
(2 February 2025) This January 2025, we all wake up with a dull feeling – something is wrong. There are more and more latent and open crises that herald major upheavals. As Federal Councillor Ignazio Cassis notes in the “Tamedia” newspapers, “the world is not doing well” – a brief foray.
by Norbert Häring*
(24 January 2025) (CH-S) In Germany, the “addiction” to censor public opinion is still gathering pace, whereas in Switzerland, thank God, it has not been as strong so far. Although there are forces here that want to emulate Germany and the EU in this respect – keyword “Digital Services Act” – they have been somewhat curbed so far. Elon Musk – whatever one may think of him – has already created a strong headwind and stirred up the censorship miasma. However, the trend towards opinion restriction is continuing in Germany, as Norbert Häring shows using the example of public libraries.
by Urs P. Gasche*
(24 January 2025) The war lobby has been faking successes for presidents and congress so that the arms and aid organisations can profit for a long time.