by | Jul 21, 2026 | letters

The second half of Switzerland’s chairpersonship of OSCE, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, has begun. OSCE expert Walter Kemp, a Canadian based in Vienna, assesses the state of play. He does not exclude that the prospect of a military...

Africa on the map

by | Jul 18, 2026 | articles

Football – the world sport, not the American exception – and politics go forever together: Switzerland’s victory against Grossdeutschland on Jun 9, 1938, rang a bell of resistance. Germany’s World Cup championship on July 4, 1954, was the spiritual birth of the...

The Swiss can do a lot

by | Jul 6, 2026 | Swiss, United Nations

In some areas, diplomacy is sidelined because the big powers are at loggerheads. Others fade away because no one is interested any longer. One of these cases is the situation of human rights and the extreme discrimination of women in Afghanistan – a «cooperating...

Sprouts in the silent majority

by | Apr 1, 2026 | America

Is the Caudillo limping? There is a current in the punditry – all the stronger, the further away from the empire the opining takes place – that President Trump is losing grip on his flock, but in our homegrown circle of Trumpists no fissures are apparent. Criticism of...