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What people in Bern think about the climate case against the Swiss government
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- What people in Bern think about the climate case against the Swiss government
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- 0:57
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- 4 years ago
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- There is currently a group of elderly women suing the Swiss government for not doing enough to slow global warming. SWI swissinfo.ch's Anika Rahm took to the streets of Bern to find out whether people thought it makes sense to sue a government for this reason.
#voxpopuli #reporter #swiss #englishnews #onthestreet #journalist #switzerland #interviews
To find out more about this story go to:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/global-warming_grandmothers-sue-switzerland-in-climate-complaint/42544428
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- Lucerne Switzerland: How does the children's parliament work?
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- 1:58
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- 4 years ago
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- To include young people in politics, Lucerne in Switzerland has set up a children's parliament, where kids aged 8 to 14 take part in regular sessions, approve budgets and so on.
We talked to Lorena, Mattis and Enno, three of 90 youngsters taking part in the annual children's parliament in Lucerne in central Switzerland. In this short video the children describe their extraordinary activities taking part in the Swiss direct democracy.
Lorena and Mattis, aged 11 and 13 respectively, are members of the co-presidency of the parliament and chair the sessions, which take place three times a year on Wednesday afternoons. Ten-year old Enno meanwhile already has a clear plan for his political future.
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- The things that divide Swiss people
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- 0:51
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- 4 years ago
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- SWI swissinfo.ch's Anika Rahm took to the streets of Bern and asked people what they thought would divide Swiss society the most.
#journalist #swissdivider #switzerland #voxpopuli
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- Discovering sustainable fashion in Geneva
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- 3:41
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- 4 years ago
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- In Switzerland's second richest city, there is no shortage of shops offering second-hand clothes or clothes made from recycled textiles. The only problem is finding them, according to researcher Katia Vladimirova, who has been studying sustainable fashion in the city.
When the Russian researcher arrived in Geneva, after living in London, New York and Milan, she found it incredibly difficult to find clear, detailed information on how to shop sustainably for clothes.
Working at the University of Geneva, Katia Vladimirova proposed to the city authorities to carry out a detailed study of the situation. The results of her research, published at the end of April, highlight areas where there is room for improvement and suggest recommendations to improve the consumer experience.
During her research, Vladimirova met various people working in the sustainable fashion business. SWI swissinfo.ch followed her through the streets of Geneva to discover second-han...
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- The legendary weather prophets of Innerschwyz
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- 4:34
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- 4 years ago
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- This April the Swiss "weather prophets" are holding their general assembly. The "Meteorological Association Innerschwyz" was founded in 1947 based on a local tradition of long-range forecasting that dates back to the 18th century. Their methods are unusual: reading cows horns and mice tails do not always result in reliable predictions. But the prophets have developed a nationwide following. We visited the whether prophets Martin Horat and Martin Holdener back in 2005 to find out how they go about making their forecasts.
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- A visit to the Thermal Baths in Vals
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- 3:05
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- 4 years ago
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- Swiss star architect Peter Zumthor has just turned 80. One of his architectural highlights is the Thermal Baths in Vals. Built from local quartz, the spa brings together the "champagne" of Swiss mineral waters with the mineral stone from which it gushes. Zumthor used about 40,000 stone tiles and piled them on top of one another to form walls around a labyrinth of chambers of varying sizes, much like the inner spaces of a temple devoted to the senses.
The spa was declared a historic landmark only two years after it opened, and people have been flocking to it ever since to marvel at the architecture and relax in its curative waters.
SWI swissinfo.ch journalists Dale Bechtel and Michele Andina visited Vals in 2004 where they spoke to Annalisa Zumthor-Cuorad, the wife of the architect and Vals resort director at the time, and to Pius Truffer, the owner of the quarry that provided the stone slabs for the iconic building.
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- Ukrainian refugees go to school in Switzerland
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- 3:58
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In this short video, we meet a group of Ukrainian refugees who are going to school in Switzerland. The refugees are looking forward to integrating into Swiss society and learning a new language.
Swiss schools are famous for their integration policies, which make it easy for refugees to learn the language and culture of Switzerland. This video shows how the refugees are getting to grips with their new school and how they're preparing to continue their education in Switzerland.
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, around 13,000 Ukrainian children who have fled to Switzerland with their families have started schools across the country. We visited a school in Aubonne in western Switzerland to see how young refugees are getting on with the new system and the new language.
Over the past year, the school has welcomed around 50 Ukrainian children. Some have already returned to their home country since first fleeing to Switzerland because o...
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- Palestinian refugees: What will become of them?
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- What will become of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East if the main UN organisation set up to help them implodes? The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) has been supporting Palestinian refugees in the Middle East for 74 years. Money troubles have constantly plagued the institution. Since around 2010, the situation has steadily worsened as several donors cut their contributions. A big hole was caused in particular by the temporary suspension of US funding under ex-President Donald Trump in 2018, which was resumed under his successor. But the real problem is the lack of a political solution, says UNRWA director Philippe Lazzarini.
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- Behind the scenes: Explaining how the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer works
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- 0:39
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- After postponing its launch due to risk of lightning, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) has successfully begun its eight-year journey to Jupiter on April 14. Video journalist Michele Andina explains how he went about making an explainer video on the juice mission, using models of planets made of styrofoam and spacecrafts made of paper.
#jupiter #europeanspaceagency #esa #animation #esajuice
Watch our JUICE explainer here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfGzA7SZUP4
or here:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/the-european-mission-to-jupiter-is-ready-for-take-off/48421616
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- Juice launch: The ESA mission to Jupiter lifts off
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- 4:43
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- After postponing its launch due to risk of lightning, the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) has successfully begun its eight-year journey to Jupiter on April 14. For the next three years, the probe will orbit the giant gas planet as well as Jupiter’s three icy moons of Jupiter to search for, among other things, traces of life. The University of Bern contributed to the development of several key instruments.
The European Space Agency mission is also specifically targeting Jupiter's second innermost moon, Europa, which is thought to have an ocean beneath its icy crust. During the flyby with JUICE, the researchers hope to collect some of the water that the moon spouts out into space. The chemical composition of this water mixture could provide clues about whether the conditions for life exist.
The University of Bern has built a neutral gas and ion mass spectrometer (NIM) for the mission, with which the individual moons Ganymede, Callisto and Europa can be studied ...
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- Ukraine demining: How does it work?
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- 2:28
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Ukraine is littered with landmines and other explosives, posing a physical and mental threat to the population. Since February 2022, the situation is said to have deteriorated drastically and demining the country is an issue that needs to be resolved.
The Swiss government has a new action plan for 2023-26 that will expand humanitarian mine action in Ukraine. About half of Swiss funds go to the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD), a leading centre of mine action expertise and knowledge. GICHD director Stefano Toscano elaborates on the paralysing effect of mines on Ukrainian society.
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- Manuele Bertoli, the only visually impaired member of a Swiss government
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- 7:11
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Manuele Bertoli is State councillor of the Canton of Ticino in southern Switzerland. He's the only blind member of a cantonal government in the country. We met him in his office in Bellinzona just before his retirement from political life.
How did he manage to have such a successful political career despite being blind? What is his vision of Swiss democracy and its instruments of direct democracy?
“Direct democracy in Switzerland is not something that those in power use to confirm their own ideas,” he explains, “But something that often starts from the bottom, with citizens' initiatives.”
Bertoli, from the left-wing Social Democratic Party, became head of the government of the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino in 2014. He has been a member of the Ticino government (composed of five members from four different parties) since 2011 and has held the cantonal presidency thrice. In April 2023, at the age of 62, the lawyer will complete his th...
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- Girls finally allowed at the Chalandamarz in Zuoz
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- 3:14
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The Chalandamarz in Zuoz is very important. The spring custom was made world-famous thanks to Swiss children's book "Schellen-Ursli" (A Bell for Ursli), whose story is set on March 1st, the day when this traditional parade takes place.
Ursli's adventures take place in the Engadine village of Guarda, in southeastern Switzerland, but the actual stronghold of the custom has been the village of Zuoz for many years. Here, the Chalandamarz has remained as it was in the past - with a strict division of the sexes as only boys were allowed to parade with a bell through the little village.
For almost a year there was a dispute in the alpine village because girls were also to take part in the procession. The small revolution was initiated by the local council. It wanted to treat the girls at the Chalandamarz completely equally to the boys in order to comply with the principle of equality.
The idea was that the girls should walk through the village with blu...
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- Winter tourism in Kyrgyzstan | #shorts
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Video journalist Julie Hunt talks about her latest documentary that she filmed in Kyrgyzstan. It's about a group of Swiss ski instructors helping to create new winter tourism jobs in a country where one in four people are out of work.
Watch Julie's documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8csbKtJGLA
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- Why the Swiss are boosting winter tourism in Kyrgyzstan
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- 6:08
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Kayaking, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing are just a few of the winter activities the Swiss are supporting in the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan. The goal is creating new jobs in a country where one in four are out of work.
The programme, funded by the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and implemented by the Swiss NGO Helvetas, focuses on the northern mountainous region of Karakol. Local mountain guides, cultural guides and sports teachers are being trained so that they can earn a living in the winter as well as the summer. SWI swissinfo.ch was invited by Helvetas to sample the winter tourism package.
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- Behind the scenes: Making an animation about the Swiss political system | #shorts
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- 0:40
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- At SWI swissinfo.ch we like to explore new ways of untangling Swiss politics for our audience abroad. Here video journalist Michele Andina uses stop motion animation to show how the federal parliament is set up. This October, Swiss voters will elect their political representatives for the next four-year term.
Watch our parliament election video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylzvpJ0TuNU
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- Switzerland's direct democracy: How Swiss voters elect their parliament
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In October, Swiss voters elect their political representatives for the next four-year term. Parliament is made up of two chambers to balance the interests of the different cantons (political regions): the House of Representatives and the Senate. For a law to pass, it must win approval in both chambers separately. They also meet for joint sessions, notably to elect the members of the Swiss government and the courts.
The Swiss political system has remained relatively stable over time with Green parties making gains in elections four years ago. Currently more than ten different political groups sit in parliament while the four main parties are represented in the government.
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- Swiss help transform Kyrgyzstan's ski industry
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- 3:59
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Just like in alpine Switzerland, there is also a ski industry in the high mountains of Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia, and it’s getting some help from the Swiss. Eight years ago, a dedicated ski instructor from the eastern Swiss canton of Graubünden started a winter tourism project in Kyrgyzstan to create jobs in the cold season. Edda Hergarten took fellow instructors with her to teach the Kyrgyz people how to ski. Now about 40 of them are instructors themselves. This is her story.
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- Creating peace in Ukraine: live podcast discussion
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- 56:01
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In a special live recording of the Inside Geneva podcast, host Imogen Foulkes was joined by experts in conflict resolution to discuss what a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine might look like, and to find out what makes a successful, sustainable peace.
Why do some peace negotiations take years? Why do few succeed and why do so many fail?
This episode brought together: Katia Papagianni, Director of Policy and Mediation Support at the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue; Keith Krause, Director at the Centre on Conflict, Development, and Peacebuilding at the Geneva Graduate Institute; Hiba Qasas, Head of Secretariat at the Principles for Peace Initiative and Shefali Nandhra, a student in sustainable development at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
“The fact that we’re talking about the possibility of using nuclear weapons, the fact that we’re talking about the possibility of the United States and China going to war over Taiwan; it’s frightening,...
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- Australian traces her Swiss roots
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- 3:41
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Cate Riley has flown to Switzerland from Australia on a mission to discover her Swiss roots. SWI swissinfo.ch joined her and her family as she retraced the footsteps of her father, who grew up in canton Jura.
Riley was the product of a short relationship between her parents in Australia. In 1970 there was no support for single mothers – they were urged to give up their babies for adoption. Riley grew up in Sydney with an older brother, the biological son of her adoptive parents. "I lacked a natural closeness between myself and my adoptive family," says Riley. She longed for a deeper connection. At the age of 21, she finally accessed her birth certificate. "The fact that I was Swiss was completely unexpected," Riley says.
After five years of searching, Riley tracked down her birth mother, who had married an Australian. They lived in Brisbane with their two daughters. Cate then found out that her father was also Swiss and had returned home. The new family too...
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- The Swiss view of free movement within the EU
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- 3:32
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Livia Leu, Switzerland's chief negotiator with the European Union, has been talking about the challenges ahead in 2023, especially when it comes to the free movement of people. For about 20 years, Switzerland has regulated its relations with the EU in bilateral agreements, an alternative to EU membership that it would like to maintain. But the rules governing EU market access have now changed so the bilaterals need updating. The EU and Switzerland are discussing how to package their agreements in the future.
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- How popular votes made Switzerland a global democracy leader
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- 2:42
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- With its second federal constitution of 1874, Switzerland was suddenly catapulted to the forefront of democracy development worldwide. No canton had voted so strongly in favour of radical change as Schaffhausen.
Adopting the new federal constitution marked a milestone in Swiss history. It brought about several important improvements, making up for just about everything the original constitution lacked.
Many of these improvements would not have happened without what became known as the Democratic Movement. This movement had arisen in several parts of Switzerland in response to controversial decisions taken by cantonal parliaments, such as Basel Country and Basel City moving towards reunification and building railroads through farm land in Bern.
This episode is part of the series Swiss democracy hotspots with Claude Longchamp.
This series in several parts is tailored for our author: Claude Longchamp's expertise makes him the man who can...
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- Will Switzerland sort out its differences with the EU in 2023?
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- 4:38
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In 2021, the Swiss government broke off negotiations with the EU on an institutional framework agreement to govern future relations. Now both sides are looking for a new path. In this video, Larissa Rhyn, a correspondent for Swiss Public Television, SRF, explains what’s at stake.
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- Director vs dictator: The enduring relevance of Charlie Chaplin
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- 7:21
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- "A bad imitation of me," Charlie Chaplin said of Adolf Hitler, who inspired The Great Dictator, one of Chaplin's most commercially and critically successful films. But what message does it have for audiences today?
Exactly 45 years ago, on December 25, 1977, one of the most famous men in the world died in Corsier-sur-Vevey overlooking Lake Geneva: Charlie Chaplin.
The British actor had lived for a quarter of a century in Switzerland, where he had found refuge from McCarthyism, the FBI and American journalists, who had taken a very dim view of his satire The Great Dictator and had begun to castigate and persecute its author.
Chaplin started thinking about making a film about Adolf Hitler in 1937, two years before the outbreak of the Second World War and four years before the United States entered the conflict. He could not count on much support: the Americans, as well as the British, had long regarded Nazi Germany as a bulwark against communism. The film ...
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- Episode 5: The chicken dance of neutrality
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- 4:14
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- What does neutrality even mean? Where does the world famous "chicken dance" come from? And why is Switzerland to blame? In our video we take a close look at the history of the famed Swiss neutrality and the diplomacy attached to it - and as always we have a reason to apologise!
Suggestions for things Switzerland should apologise for?
Send them to sorry@karpi.international
"Switzerland Says Sorry" is written, performed and produced by Swiss comedian Karpi; Music by artlist.io;
Produced by Apéro Film in 2023 for Swissinfo; Thanks to Natascha Beller
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- Salient Features of Constitution Of Switzerland
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- 3:27
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The first version of the Swiss constitution was a breakthrough on the road to democratisation. It gave the cantons more autonomy and paved the way for creating one of the greatest democracies in Europe. However, it was far from perfect. It triggered numerous crises and failed to put an end to injustice.
This episode is part of the series Swiss democracy hotspots with Claude Longchamp.
This series in several parts is tailored for our author: Claude Longchamp's expertise makes him the man who can bring alive the places where important things happened.
Longchamp was a founder of the research institute gfs.bern and is the most experienced political analyst in Switzerland. He is also a historian. Combining these disciplines, Longchamp has for many years given highly acclaimed historic tours of Bern and other sites.
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- Chocolate: labour in the cocoa industry
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- 2:32
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The chocolate supply chain features many intermediaries from bean to bar. Those doing the hardest jobs at the bottom of the chain get a tiny portion of a bar's price while those at the top make the most money.
Today, Ivory Coast and Ghana produce over 60% of the world's cocoa beans and Switzerland has become synonymous with chocolate. This mutually beneficial relationship has come under strain in recent years. The West African countries are no longer satisfied with their meagre slice of $6 billion of the $120 billion chocolate industry. Switzerland, along with the European Union and the US, is unhappy about deforestation and child labour in cocoa growing regions of West Africa.
West Africa wants to change the status quo and is trying to renegotiate its role in the chocolate industry. From joining forces and adding value to investing in digitisation and sustainability. It is an uphill battle but a necessary one to avoid being held hostage by global cocoa pri...
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- Thank You!
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- 2:53
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- 2022 was a colourful, challenging year for SWI swissinfo.ch. Here's a taste of some of the reports we produced, and products we launched. We want to thank you for supporting us, and look forward to new adventures in 2023. Happy NewYear!
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- How a Ukrainian art museum responded to war
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- 3:37
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The Kunstmuseum Basel has tweaked its programme to welcome 49 paintings brought out of Ukraine. The exhibition was organised in collaboration with the Kyiv Picture Gallery and will be open until April 30, 2022.
"When the war broke out, all the colleagues from the museum in Kyiv packed the works and tried to close the windows to bring as much security as possible to the building," said Osadtschy. The national gallery's director started looking for partners to evacuate some of their artworks and were helped by the International Council of Museums (ICOM) who connected them to art institutions in Switzerland.
Just days before the paintings were due to leave the Ukrainian capital, a bomb exploded next to the museum building, damaging it. The artworks remained untouched.
"We had no previous contact with this museum, so it was a big adventure in a way. But then we realised this could be a really meaningful gesture, and started to work on it," said Jose...
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- Accessing cancer treatment in Kenya
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- 4:20
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- We met Lucia Syokau Muli in Makueni, south of Nairobi: she found out she had breast cancer at the age of 27. She explained us how she is dealing with her diagnosis and the challenges she faces accessing treatment.
Cost is one of Lucia’s biggest worries, she tells SWI when we meet outside the Empower cancer clinic at the county hospital. The biggest financial strain is the recurring cost of trastuzumab, which Swiss pharma firm Roche sells as Herceptin and is credited with dramatically improving survival rates.
Although it's been around for more than two decades, it remains unaffordable for many people in Kenya, where some 45% of the population live below the World Bank’s poverty line of $2.15 a day. One of the recommended 18 cycles cost more than double Lucia's monthly income.
She isn't alone. The cost of treatment is one of the biggest challenges facing doctors who have to make difficult decisions of whether to prescribe a treatment that wi...
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- Revolutionary technology puts GoldenPass trains on the right track
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- 3:08
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Thanks to pioneering technology, passengers on Switzerland's GoldenPass panoramic trains can now travel directly from the palm-lined banks of Lake Geneva to the mountains of the Bernese Alps.
It's all down to a ground-breaking track-changing device built by Alstom in Villeneuve, western Switzerland. It was commissioned in 2015 by the Montreux Oberland Bernois Railway (MOB) for use on the panoramic trains.
In 2018 MOB awarded Stadler in Thurgau, northern Switzerland, a contract to supply 23 variable-gauge coaches for the GoldenPass Express services from Montreux to Interlaken East, to be operated jointly with railway company BLS.
The GoldenPass line was the realisation of a decades-old dream to connect Lake Geneva, Gstaad and the Bernese Oberland by rail. It opened in stages between 1901 and 1916. From Montreux to Zweisimmen, the line was built with metric gauge rails (one-metre wide) because of the mountainous terrain, while the stretch from Zwei...
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- Episode 4: The Crypto Valley Gold Rush
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- 5:21
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In "Switzerland says sorry", our satirical video format, Swiss comedian and director Patrick Karpiczenko apologises for Switzerland's Wild West-style handling of cryptocurrencies.
Switzerland has a very relaxed attitude when it comes to regulating cryptocurrency and finds itself now overrun by foreign businesses. Half a trillion dollars' worth of crypto companies have set up their offices in the small Alpine nation.
In this video, we'll visit the Wild West that is Switzerland's Crypto Valley, an underregulated paradise where everything is possible, the sheriff is fast asleep and hordes of rogue blockchain start-ups are hunting gullible investors for coin…
Suggestions for things Switzerland should apologise for? Send them to sorry@karpi.international
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- Swiss Abroad: Stay in touch with Switzerland
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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- SWI swissinfo.ch, a branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), provides targeted information to all the Swiss living abroad. We deliver the latest news from and about Switzerland. We report on political events in Switzerland and on the international stage. We also look at how the government and the cantons deal with issues relating to the Swiss Abroad.
SWI swissinfo.ch provides independent reporting on Swiss politics, business, science, culture and society in ten languages.
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- Swiss foundation ReBin produces Biogas in Toffo, Benin
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- 2:57
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- In the municipality of Toffo, in the south of the West African country, ReBin has been transforming local organic waste into compost and biogas since 2018.
As part of an exchange program between French-speaking journalists, our reporter visited their organic waste treatment plant in southern Benin. Founder and president Mark Giannelli walks us through the different activities the centre is active in.
Villagers and local vegetable-growers bring peel and other organic leftovers to the centre, and get money in return. With this, they can also buy the centre’s products: fish, compost, biogas, or water. In five years, the number of registered users has doubled, as has the amount of biogas produced – a renewable resource, much less polluting as a household cooking gas compared with wood or coal.
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swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspe...
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- Meet Switzerland's next man in space
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- 1:12
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Marco Sieber has been chosen as a “career astronaut” by the European Space Agency (ESA) – he is thus set to become only the second Swiss spaceman in history. The 33-year-old from Bern was selected from a total of 22,500 candidates who applied for a spot in the latest promotion.
Sieber, who currently works as a urologist in the bilingual Swiss city of Biel/Bienne, is also a paratrooper in the Swiss army, as well as the holder of a private pilot’s licence.
He previously worked as chief medical officer for the Swiss forces in the KFOR international peacekeeping mission in Kosovo. And in his free time, Sieber is a fan of adventure sports, including skydiving, paragliding, scuba diving, ski touring, and kitesurfing.
As a career astronaut, he will receive training for missions to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) and perhaps further afield, the ESA said. The education starts with a 12-month basic training course in the ESA’s European As...
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- Producing syngas from sunlight
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- 2:05
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The Swiss company Synhelion is developing the world’s first industrial-scale plant to produce synthetic fuels from CO2, methane, water and sunlight.
A reactor in the tower is fed with methane and carbon dioxide of biowaste origin from a local paper mill, as well as water. This is then processed into environmentally friendly versions of petrol, diesel or jet fuel using standard gas-to-liquids technology.
The production method was first demonstrated in 2019 in a mini refinery built at ETH Zurich. From next year, the Swiss entrepreneurs want to produce 10,000 litres of solar fuel a year at the new German plant. In parallel, Synhelion will start work on a much larger commercial plant in sunny Spain that can be operated continuously, increasing total production to 1.6 million litres a year from 2025. Swiss International Air Lines (SWISS) is on board with the initiative. But the long-term production challenges remain immense.
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- Women soldiers in peacekeeping SWISSCOY contingents
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- 3:08
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Women are still a minority in international peacekeeping operations. The Swiss armed forces’ contingent in Kosovo, SWISSCOY, shows just how important their role can be.
We spent a day with Iris Probst, who now just completed her training module which is part of her three-month pre-deployment preparation at SWISSINT, the Swiss armed forces’ centre for international peacebuilding in Stans-Oberdorf, in canton Nidwalden. She has now been posted to Kosovo for six months, as deputy press and information officer with the Swiss peace-support mission, SWISSCOY.
The proportion of women in the peacekeeping force has risen steadily in recent years. In 2020, around 60 women were sent on mission to Kosovo; by September 2022, this number had risen to nearly 70.
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- The world's longest passenger train through the Swiss alps
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- 3:28
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Switzerland’s largest private railway operator, Rhaetian Railway (RhB), set a new world record for the longest passenger train on a spectacular narrow gauge track. The train – comprising 100 carriages for a total length of 1,910 metres - travelled for 25 kilometres on the Albula/Bernina route from Preda to Alvaneu in canton Graubünden in southeast Switzerland.
It comprised 25 newly delivered train units, or 100 carriages, making a total length of 1,910 metres. On its journey from Preda to Alvaneu the train descended 568 metres. When braking on its way down, it generated the same amount of electricity as a family house consumes in a year.
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- Let's Talk: the future of Crypto Nation Switzerland
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- 30:36
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Switzerland has built a reputation for nurturing a new industry based on cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology. Experts give their take on the pros and cons of the fledgling 'Crypto Nation'.
More than 1,000 blockchain companies, supporting 6,000 jobs, have set anchor in Switzerland, encouraged by the welcoming political and legal infrastructure.
But other countries are raising their game, determined to entice the world's best technology innovators to their realms. How will Switzerland cling on to its lead as the competition heats up.
SWI swissinfo.ch invited guests from Switzerland, Dubai and the United States to gauge the strength of the blockchain industry and unpick the best strategies for countries to adopt.
Alexander Brunner is president of Home of Blockchain.swiss, a public-private partnership focused on promoting Switzerland as the go-to venue for the industry.
Matthew Allen has written for SWI swissinfo.ch on...
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- Swiss journalist reports on the art of survival
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- 4:00
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Karin Wenger, former Asia correspondent for Swiss public broadcaster SRF, has put down her microphone and picked up her pen, publishing no less than three books this year focused on survivors she met while travelling around Asia. The journalist from Zurich has worked all over Asia since she started reporting there in 2009. More recently she started to revisit people from all walks of life, who she met during her newsgathering. Holed up in Bangkok because of the Covid-19 pandemic, she finally had time to write her stories about the tribulations they overcame and their extraordinary survival spirit.
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- Let’s Talk: polar research and our struggling planet
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- 28:56
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Some may question the value of polar research when there are other problems closer to home. But what is happening in these remote regions has a knock-on effect all over the globe.
SWI swissinfo.ch invited two Swiss-based scientists to discuss their experiences – including working on the sea ice and examining the largest glacier outside the north and south poles.
Julia Schmale is a professor and head of the Extreme Environments Research Laboratory at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). She studies the Earth’s atmosphere – especially how aerosols interact with clouds to influence and maybe accelerate polar warming. Schmale has spent a lot of time working on Antarctic and Arctic climate expeditions, including the MOSAiC expedition, which drifted for a year with the Arctic sea ice. She leads the GreenFjord project, one of the Swiss Polar Institute’s flagship initiatives.
Francesca Pellicciotti is a senior scientist an...
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- Swiss keep an eye on tensions in Kosovo
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- 2:48
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Things are tense in northern Kosovo as a deadline approaches for Serbs to swap their Belgrade-issued number plates for local ones. A seemingly trivial request from Kosovo’s government has stoked discontent among ethnic Serbs. Swiss military personnel are among 3,600 NATO peacekeepers in the country, keeping watch. David Olumese, Team Commander LMT (liaison and monitoring team), works in the divided city of Mitrovica, where Albanian and Serb settlements are separated by the river Ibar. He talks to different communities and reports back to KFOR headquarters. He says there is a feeling of uncertainty among people there, as “they don’t know what’s coming”.
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- Kosovo's post-war problems
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- 3:26
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The Serb community in northern Kosovo has been instructed by the government to ditch their Belgrade-issued number plates for Kosovan ones, but for many people, this is tantamount to accepting Kosovo's independence, something Serbia has avoided since 2008. This video looks at the background to the number plates row and the chances of reconciliation. Swiss peacekeepers are present in northern Kosovo as part of NATO's KFOR mission.
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- How exclusion became the driving force for democratisation
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- 3:37
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- It is a widely held belief that political inclusion has been an integral part of Swiss life since women gained the right to vote in 1971. Democracy, however, is a work in progress. To this day, some people remain excluded from Swiss political life.
The move towards full democracy has happened in small, sometimes surprising, steps. One example is a historical 2020 vote in canton Geneva: 75% of voters agreed that citizens with mental or physical disabilities were entitled to full voting rights.
This resounding “yes” paved the way for 1,200 citizens previously excluded from the polls to cast their votes in elections and referendums, and even to stand for election.
Geneva thus became the first canton to adopt the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which Switzerland had ratified in 2014. Based on the Declaration of Human Rights, the UN considers any restrictions on universal suffrage to be unacceptable.
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- Neuchâtel: where one woman broke the male monopoly on politics
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- 3:04
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- The first woman in Switzerland ever to be elected to a cantonal parliament was Raymonde Schweizer. This Social Democrat came from the industrial town of La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Neuchâtel Jura. A trade unionist and feminist, she was elected on her first try in 1960, thereby becoming a trendsetter at a time when Swiss women were not even allowed to vote in national elections.
Not once but twice was Neuchâtel the setting for key developments in the decades-long exclusion of women from the country’s democratic system.
This episode is part of the series Swiss democracy hotspots with Claude Longchamp.
This series in several parts is tailored for our author: Claude Longchamp’s expertise makes him the man who can bring alive the places where important things happened.
Longchamp was a founder of the research institute gfs.bern and is the most experienced political analyst in Switzerland. He is also a historian. Combining these discipl...
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- Swiss hydropower prepares for energy shortage
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- 1:40
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Europe’s severe drought this summer has hampered hydroelectric output across the continent. In Switzerland, the hot weather has caused glaciers to melt rapidly and Switzerland’s hydropower reserves are currently below-average. Will they be enough to help prevent an electricity shortage this winter?
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- Student-made electric plane
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- 1:45
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- A four-seater battery-powered electric plane was recently launched by students at the federal technology institute ETH Zurich. A team of 20 engineering students took two years to make it for their bachelor’s degree.
The outer shell was made by the South African kit aircraft manufacturer Sling Aircraft. But the students replaced the combustion engine with an electric propulsion mechanism, powered by a modular battery system fitted with a special cooling network.
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- Lucerne Switzerland: The capital city that never was
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- 3:06
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Three times Lucerne tried to be named the capital of Switzerland. Only the first attempt succeeded, short-lived as it was. None of this, however, can overshadow Lucerne’s decisive role in the birth of Swiss democracy.
This episode is part of the series Swiss democracy hotspots with Claude Longchamp.
This series in several parts is tailored for our author: Claude Longchamp’s expertise makes him the man who can bring alive the places where important things happened.
Longchamp was a founder of the research institute gfs.bern and is the most experienced political analyst in Switzerland. He is also a historian. Combining these disciplines, Longchamp has for many years given highly acclaimed historic tours of Bern and other sites.
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swissinfo.ch is the international branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC). Its role is to report on Switzerland and to provide a Swiss perspective on international events.
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- Melting Swiss glaciers reveal tragedies of the past
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- 2:35
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Switzerland’s melting glaciers have revealed more unexpected, macabre secrets than ever this summer: human remains and plane wreckage trapped in the ice for over 50 years. Such discoveries are set to multiply in the coming years, says Robert Bolognesi, a snow science expert.
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- Happy as an invasive clam?
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- 1:54
- Date posted
- 4 years ago
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- Asian clams are among the foreign shellfish taking over Swiss waters, causing serious problems for local ecosystems and infrastructure. Could harvesting and eating them be a solution? Our reporter went clam digging and cooked up her catch.
Switzerland may be landlocked, but that doesn’t keep foreign marine life from entering its rivers and lakes, and threatening local ecosystems and drinking water. Could eating them be part of the solution?
Chest-deep in Lake Biel near the Swiss capital Bern, I poke my toes around the sediment below me. Without goggles, the bottom is not clearly visible, so I use my foot to lift a sodden clump of sand to the surface. It dissolves in my hands, clouding the water as I clutch a small clam in shades of butterscotch and brown.
The bivalve in question is Corbicula fluminea, commonly known as the Asian clam. Originally from eastern Asia, it came to Europe via North America, likely in the ballast water from cargo ships....
