Switzerland

“A world record is growing here!”

(22 June 2022) (Edit.) The “Swiss Farmers’ Union” (Schweizer Bauernverband SBV) is drawing attention to itself in its anniversary year with a World Record Rösti* campaign. The children and young people involved are thus given a welcome connection to the realities of agriculture and a staple food, the potato. Unfortunately, it takes on a current urgency in the context of world events, the safeguarding of food sovereignty and one’s own provisions and preparedness.

Manual work for a “dog mission”

by Max Hugelshofer, Swiss Mountain Aid

(20 June 2022) What do guide dogs in Switzerland, the USA, Australia or France have in common? Most likely they wear a harness that was handmade in Switzerland. Until recently in the Jura, now in a mountain village in Ticino.

Swiss neutrality

Leaders on the wrong track

by Thomas Scherr

(10 April 2022) How did it come about that the Federal Council and with it the National Council lost their heads within a few days and pushed aside the country’s centuries-old neutrality? What interests were at work in the background? What could a way back to neutrality look like?

Neutrality has nothing to do with heartlessness and lack of solidarity

(13 March 2022) Edit. Ambiguously and contrary to the country's good tradition, the Federal Council endorsed on February 28, 2022, the EU's far-reaching sanctions against Russia. Switzerland is neither a member of the EU nor of NATO, nor is it part of any alliance with Ukraine or Russia. The Federal Council was expected to find a diplomatically balanced and Swiss solution.

“Süddeutsche Zeitung“ and “Tages-Anzeiger“ ditch Nils Melzer

Why is the Swiss UN Special Rapporteur being defamed like this?

(26 February 2022) ts. The UN Special Rapporteur Nils Melzer* announced that he is resigning from his post prematurely. Behind are downright reputation-damaging reports in the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” and the Zurich “Tages-Anzeiger”. In the following we publish Nils Melzer's correction to the “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. The latter refused to print his counter statement.

Agriculture

“We want to fulfil our bridge-building function”

Around 1400 young people got a taste of farming last year

by Jonas Ingold

(29 January 2022) LID. In this interview Agriviva’s managing director Ueli Bracher sums up the year and discusses the challenges of the future.