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“The voluntary nature of the e-ID is being undermined through the back door”

Interview by HOCH2TV with IT entrepreneur Josef Ender*

(28 March 2025) In a referendum in 2021, the Swiss people clearly rejected the e-ID. But apparently, parliament is not interested in that. It seems to have its own agenda and therefore adopted an e-ID law with an overwhelming majority in December 2024. A referendum was launched against it by several committees – which currently still needs significantly more support if it is to be successful. The collection period runs until 19 April 2025.

Switzerland

From bad to worse

In the war of the roses between the USA and the EU, Switzerland is siding with Brussels – and thus moving further away from its neutrality

by Michael Straumann*

(28 March 2025) The last few weeks and months have shown a major rift between Washington and Brussels. Initially, J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference caused a stir, giving Western Europe’s political elite a lecture. This was followed by the public quarrel between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office, which ended with the USA cancelling its further participation in military aid to Ukraine. The European Union’s reaction was unequivocal: it intensified its blind loyalty to Kiev. The EU now stepped in to replace the weapons that the US had previously contributed.

Trump’s ingenuity vis-à-vis Russia and Iran

by M.K. Bhadrakumar,* India

(21 March 2025) Through the past three-year period, Moscow claimed that it faced an existential threat from the US-led proxy war in Ukraine. But in the past six weeks, this threat perception has largely dissipated. The US President Donald Trump has made a heroic attempt to change his country’s image to a portmanteau of “friend” and “enemy” with whom Moscow can be friendly despite the backlog of a fundamental dislike or suspicion.

The slow decline of Swiss diplomacy

But all hope is not yet lost

by Guy Mettan,* Geneva

(21 March 2025) Having failed to reach a consensus, Switzerland had to give up organising the humanitarian summit on Palestine. When will it finally understand that international Geneva and Switzerland’s role as a mediator cannot be saved by jumping around shouting “Multilateralism! Multilateralism!” and pulling a few million out of your pocket to save reckless NGOs?
Neutrality or NATO?vv

Founding meeting of the “Movement for Neutrality”

by Daniel Funk, “Transition News”

(21 March 2025) The “Movement for Neutrality” was founded on 9 March. The new organisation’s first goal is to help the cross-party neutrality initiative to succeed in getting neutrality enshrined in the Federal Constitution.
Germany

Preparing for war

“The psychopaths currently in power want to plunge their populations into disaster”

by Wolfgang Bittner,* Germany

(21 March 2025) On 11 March, I read about war preparations in my local newspaper over breakfast and I almost choke on my food. “We are a hub for NATO”, it says. “In the event of defence, Lower Saxony would be a centre for the logistics of the Bundeswehr”, and with the “Germany Operation Plan”, the country is preparing for a “possible military conflict”.