Do your parents have a solar heating?
Climate awareness test in Swiss textbooks
by Philipp Gut*
(23 August 2024) A Swiss primary school textbook subjects pupils to a climate attitude test. Miles away from any scientific basis.
Switzerland
No, cows are no climate killers
Anyone who advocates giving up meat to save the planet is making a mistake in their reasoning
by Klaus Alfs*
(16 August 2024) “Nobody seems to be interested anymore in the fact that it is modern, conventional agriculture and not organic farming that secures harvests and reliably feeds billions of people.” In his column, Klaus Alfs explains why the accusation that cows are climate killers is based on an error in reasoning.
Eroding neutrality also undermines international Geneva. Yet Geneva remains silent …
by Guy Mettan,* Geneva
(9 August 2024) By adopting unilateral U.S.-European sanctions against Russia in February 2022, even though it had always claimed that it would only apply sanctions endorsed by the United Nations and enshrined in international law, the Swiss government has dealt a heavy blow to neutrality and international Geneva. But in Geneva, nobody flinched. And here are the reasons why.
On Swiss neutrality
Swiss Government opens the debate on the “Neutrality Initiative” with a lie
by Christoph Pfluger,* Solothurn
Dear readers
What many people don’t know: Neutrality is part of Switzerland’s DNA. But it is not enshrined in the constitution.
This is why Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis was able to throw it overboard at the end of February 2022 without a Swiss government decision, without a parliamentary decision and without a referendum.
Switzerland – NATO
Open lettre of an American naturalised in Switzerland
Dear Madam President of the Swiss Confederation, Ms Viola Amherd
Dear Federal Councillor, Mr Ignazio Cassis
NATO is neither a peace nor a defence alliance, but since 1991 an organisation that has been trying to usurp the tasks of the United Nations.
NATO is an organisation that is incompatible with the Charter of the United Nations (Art. 52) and acts against the objectives of the UN.
Dependence on foreign weapons systems
Armed neutrality and the Swiss army
by Ralph Bosshard*
(28 June 2024) From a discussion on the careless handling of Switzerland’s neutrality – which the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport (DDPS) department management and the army leadership have cultivated since the mid-1990s – one aspect that moved many listeners was that of armed neutrality.