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Where is the sovereignty in Switzerland’s health policy?

Federal Council tightens its course of adjustment to the requirements of supranational organisations

by Dr. med. Sabine Vuilleumier-Koch*

(4 July 2025) “At its meeting on 20 June 2025, the Federal Council decided to accept the amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR 2005).” This news did not come as a surprise, but it was still shocking. With its actions, the Federal Council has once again made it clear that the international stage is more important to it than Switzerland's sovereignty in its health policy.

China's thorium revolution

by Alex Krainer, TrendCompass*

(4 July 2025) Last month, Chinese scientists made a major breakthrough with the experimental 2-megawatt thorium reactor in the Gobi Desert by refueling the reactor while in full operation – a world-first achievement.

Everything is at stake – not just for Iran

The US deeply involved in planning the Israeli attack

by René Zittlau*

(27 June 2025) (CH-S) In a crystal-clear overarching view, analyst René Zittlau shows the geopolitical consequences and connections linked to Israel’s attack on Iran. It becomes evident that the US administration is much more deeply involved in the preparation of the attack than it appeared.

The multiple violations of international law will not invalidate international law itself, but the development of a peaceful global community will be set back considerably.

“Not in our name”

Zionism is not the same as Judaism

by Detlef Koch*

(27 June 2025) Today, 13 June, marks the start of an event in Vienna that was long considered unthinkable: Jews from all over the world are gathering – rabbis, Holocaust survivors, intellectuals, Mizrahi activists, left-wing voices from the diaspora – to publicly, confidently and in an organised manner criticise Zionism. Not out of hatred, but out of responsibility. Not as a taboo-breaking act, but as a return to the ethos of Jewish history. The “First Jewish Anti-Zionist Congress” is not a marginal phenomenon. It is the moral symptom of a radical change – and an invitation to finally rethink the concepts that have paralysed political criticism for decades.

Universities are failing in their duty

by Suzette Sandoz*, Lausanne

(27 June 2025) Could the cruel war between Israel and Palestine finally provide an opportunity to raise awareness of the role of universities? The rectorates are stammering and getting annoyed, students are demonstrating, the police are sometimes intervening – it’s a pitiful sight.

The nation Hitler feared conquering

Why Hitler never occupied Switzerland: The power of armed neutrality

by Felix Abt*

(27 June 2025) Switzerland’s survival was no accident – it was a masterpiece of military deterrence and strategic manoeuvring. Switzerland’s survival during the Second World War was not by chance, but the result of a deliberate and calculated strategy of armed neutrality. While Hitler conquered most of Europe, Switzerland remained independent, unoccupied and defiantly neutral, despite being surrounded by hostile Axis powers.