Tribune de Genève. According to the Tribune de Genève, the airline has confirmed that its German owner, Lufthansa Group, is looking into the possibility. Aircraft carrying the Swiss logo could be replaced by planes from Lufthansa’s low cost airline, Eurowings. Le Matin Dimanche, reportedly heard of a meeting of employees of Swiss in French-speaking Switzerland, […]
No Swiss city makes the top 10 of the EIU’s liveability ranking
For six years in a row Melbourne, Australia remains the most liveable of the 140 cities surveyed, followed very closely by Vienna. This year’s top ten, scored from 97.5 to 95.0, a score range that included both Zurich and Geneva in 2015. Top ten EIU Liveability Rankings 2016 1. Melbourne, Australia (97.5) 2. Vienna, Austria […]
Swiss foundation Cartooning for Peace to hold benefit concert in Geneva
Ten years after the creation of the Cartooning for Peace network in New York by Kofi Annan and a dozen international editorial cartoonists, the Cartooning for Peace Swiss Foundation is organising a benefit concert at 20:00 on September 16, in the Victoria Hall in Geneva, in aid of cartoonists threatened all around the world for […]
The head of the Red Cross talks about the importance of family and how “home gives you your dignity”
Renu Chahil-Graf takes a Walk in the Park with As Sy, Secretary-General of the International Federation of the Red Cross to discuss his journey to this big job and what drives him. Hope and motivation drove the unstoppable As Sy to devote a lifetime of work to humanitarian issues. Born into a “normal” Senegalese family, […]
What Switzerland must do in the face of terrorism
Tribune de Genève. After the terrorist attack in Nice, Geneva state councillor in charge of security, Pierre Maudet, is calling for better police training in the face of the danger posed by jihadists. He told the Swiss newspaper Schweiz am Sonntag, that specialised antiterrorism training of police personnel is required so officers can neutralise terrorists immediately when […]
Prisoners let out of Geneva prison to clean
Le Matin. Near the end of their terms some Swiss prisoners are put to work. Under certain conditions, a voluntary programme allows them to spend their their days working and their nights in an “open” centre. They end up in workshops, kitchens or cleaning for the city of Geneva, before being released or deported to […]
Cross-border workers can now choose between French and Swiss health insurance
Tribune de Genève. Those who work in Switzerland but live in France will soon be able to choose where they take out health insurance. In 2014, the French government made life difficult for many cross-border workers by removing the option of taking out private health insurance instead of paying into the French state health system. […]
The good things that happen when you put women in charge after a devastating earthquake
A year after the devastating earthquakes in Nepal, Swiss, Lausanne-based NGO Norlha is placing women at the heart of the recovery. “I thank God the earthquake took my plastic tunnel – used for sheltering crops – and not my family,” says Ambika Gurung, sending the room packed full of women into peels of laughter. The […]
The Good Country Index – why Switzerland missed the top 10
Because many of the world’s biggest problems, such as climate change, disease pandemics and terrorism, are global, countries operating inwardly as if they were alone on the planet, can’t deal with them, says policy advisor Simon Anholt. He thinks getting countries to look outwards, be generous, and help humanity and the planet beyond national borders is essential. He […]
When cartooning can land you in prison or worse
The granting last week of the shared 2016 Cartooning for Peace award in Geneva to Tanzanian caricaturist Gado and Malaysian artist Zunar is not just in recognition of their talent, but also their willingness to risk loss of employment, prison and other forms of persecution. Journalist and author Edward Girardet explores the role these artists […]
