Some Swiss newspapers, such as 20 Minutes, have spotted a correlation between current divergent weather and Switzerland’s linguistic divides. The Rösti Graben, that metaphorical dividing line between French- and German-speaking Switzerland, seems to fits with diverging weather conditions. Over the last 24 hours, some Swiss towns in the east have had a sprinkling of April […]
Archives for 2017
Immigrants make up 61% of Geneva’s population
Tribune de Genève. 42% of Geneva’s residents are not Swiss citizens, the highest level of any Swiss canton. When naturalised foreigners are added this percentage it rises to 61%. This compares to an average of 36% across Switzerland. Of the 61% over 15 years old with foreign roots, 40% have Swiss citizenship while the other […]
A walk in the park with the man behind a film festival spanning 5 continents
This week Renu Chahil-Graf takes A Walk in the Park with Hervé Gransart, Director, Cinema of 5 Continents Festival. Only someone with very broad shoulders would take on a film festival covering five continents! This someone is Hervé Gransart, director of a festival now in its 12th year. This year it runs from 17 to […]
Change is coming. Are you ready? TEDxLausanne presents: Braving New Worlds
Brought to you by TEDxLausanne. Change is coming whether we like it or not. We can choose to adapt or face risk, confusion, uncertainty and fear. Braving New Worlds, the subject of this Friday’s TEDx presentations in Lausanne, aims to prepare the audience for change. This Friday 21 April 2017 at 14:00, TEDxLausanne presents 11 […]
Swiss parliamentarian wants to stop distribution of the Quran
Le Matin. According to Swiss newspapers, Walter Wobman, a national councillor and member of the Swiss People’s Party (UDC/SVP), would like to prevent distribution of the Quran in Switzerland. He told the newspapers Ostschweiz am Sonntag and Zentralschweiz am Sonntag: “It should not be possible to distribute books as extreme as the Quran, which attack […]
Switzerland assembles record number of Charlie Chaplins
On Easter Sunday, a world-record 662 Charlie Chaplins of all ages assembled at Chaplin’s World near Vevey to celebrate what would have been the original’s 128th birthday. Charlie Chaplin was born on 16 April 1889. The short video below shows the look-a-like Charlie Chaplins assembling in star formation for a photo. And no large gathering on […]
Fall in Swiss property prices accelerates
Over the year ending 31 March 2017, apartment prices across Switzerland dropped by 6.8%, according to a property price report published by the Zurich-based research and consulting firm Fahrländer Partner FPRE. Close to half of the decline (-3.2%) occurred in the first quarter of 2017. Mid-range apartments hardest hit Across the year, the price of […]
FILM: Backstage documentary on the Opéra de Paris
14 April 2017. L’OPÉRA (The Paris Opera) **** (vo French) How is it to run an opera house, especially one as prestigious as the Opéra de Paris? In fact it is two opera houses: the grand old Garnier and the modern Bastille. With 1600 employees and a budget of more than €200 million, it does not […]
No charges to be pressed against 86 year old graffiti culprit
20 Minutes. No charges will be made against the 86 year old woman who sprayed graffiti on a fence outside the Swiss National Bank (SNB) in Bern. Balthasars Grüne Links wurde soeben publiziert! https://t.co/HSWZCD8vSS Beiträge u.a. von @smiddy2812 @bmarmier @EliasR94 #presidentielles — Balthasar Glättli (@bglaettli) April 12, 2017 Last week, Louise Schneider, spray painted the […]
More Swiss men feel discrimination than women, says survey
20 Minutes. A survey by the newspaper 20 Minuten, shows more men (50%) feel discriminated against than women (40%). In particular men think society places excessive demands on them. The online survey done between 4 and 6 April 2017, received 6,889 responses from readers in German-speaking Switzerland. The responses were then weighted by experts to […]
