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Call for peace

Stand up for survival

written on 31 January 2023, published on 4 February 2023
The list of signatories was updated on 25 February 2023

Deeply concerned about life and survival in the centre of Europe, we address this appeal primarily to the people of German-speaking European countries. With a diversity of socio-political views, we are sustained by the common conviction that at no time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 has our world been so close to catastrophe. If the delusional enthusiasm for war currently being fomented in the mass media is not effectively counteracted, there is a great danger the Ukraine war will lead to the use of nuclear weapons in Europe.
USA/Nato/Japan versus China

Militarization of the First Island Chain

by German Foreign Policy*

(28 February 2023) NATO expands cooperation with Japan on a broad front – at a time when Tokyo is engaged in the greatest arms buildup since 1945. USA gears up the entire first island chain of China for war.
About Swiss Neutrality

How Swiss politicians dismantle Swiss neutrality

by Christian Müller*

(28 February 2023) The Swiss Confederation – the “Confoederatio Helvetica”, hence the CH on the cars – has been historically neutral since the Congress of Vienna in 1815. Together with the reputation of the Swiss businessman Henry Dunant, whose experiences after the Battle of Solferino in 1859 and whose ideas gave rise to the “International Red Cross”, Switzerland has gained an excellent reputation as an international mediator and as a representative of interests between hostile states. However, this does not bother the current political leadership in Bern to pursue a one-sided NATO-friendly policy.

The catastrophic earthquake forces all sides to rethink

by Karin Leukefeld,* Beirut

(21 February 2023) The UN Security Council addressed the situation in Syria on Monday afternoon (NY local time) [13 February]. A “private meeting” and “non-public consultations” focused on how to get more aid to earthquake-affected areas in northern Syria and Syria’s coastal region as quickly as possible.

Switzerland

“People know each other, trust each other, respect each other and help each other”

Interview with Victorinox CEO Carl Elsener

by Stefan Barmettler, Journalist “Handelszeitung”

(21 February 2023) Carl Elsener has been CEO of Victorinox since 2007 and is not thinking about retirement. He is a model entrepreneur. Now, Carl Elsener has been voted “Leader of the Year” by the Swiss “Handelszeitung” readership for the second time.

“We must do something new with this failure, find a life lesson”

Address of His Holiness Pope Francis to the Delegation from the “Instituto Europeo de Estudios Internacionales de Salamanca” (Spain) 26 January 2023

Your Eminence,
Dear brothers and sisters,

(21 February 2023) Thank you for coming; it is a pleasure for me to welcome you back to this house and to share with you the fruit of research on the current political and social situation. Rome has been a melting pot of cultures and peoples for millennia. Everyone has passed through here, and they have fused together, in a melting pot. Heir to this universal vocation, the See of Peter has always been attentive to the vicissitudes of all peoples, their efforts and their difficulties to achieve a better life, seeking to ensure that they attain the peace that the Lord promised his disciples (cf. Jn 14:26-27).