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EU arbitrariness against Swiss citizen

Unilateral coercive measures against Colonel Jacques Baud

Statement by the editors of “Swiss Standpoint”

(26 December 2025) There are few analysts worldwide with the expertise of Swiss Colonel Jacques Baud. In his research, he traces global developments in a well-founded and documented manner and makes forecasts. He benefits from his comprehensive training, his wealth of experience as a neutral conflict expert in international peacekeeping missions and his worldwide contacts.

Preserving Switzerland’s federalist form of government and society

Setting the course for a humane future

by Hans Bieri,* Zurich

(26 December 2025) (CH-S) With the planned EU treaties, Switzerland is in danger of degenerating into an “agglomeration” of the European Union. Our country is also coming under increasing pressure from other quarters. The filigree, citizen-oriented political system of “Switzerland”, built up over centuries by its inhabitants, is at risk of being squandered by a short-sighted political and economic “elite”.

Hans Bieri, Managing Director of the “Swiss Association of Industry and Agriculture” (SVIL), opposes this and provides us with a comprehensive overview of the current situation of our country in the European context.

A day of shame!

What next for the occupied Palestinian territories?

by Karin Leukefeld*

(26 December 2025) (CH-S) There are few independent journalists like Karin Leukefeld who have been closely following the complex situation in the Middle East with its multi-layered international interdependencies for decades.

Can the “Trump peace plan”, which contradicts the UN Charter and previous UN resolutions, be a chance for a peaceful solution to the Gaza conflict? Judge for yourself. Karin Leukefeld provides a preliminary assessment.
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More democracy for the European Union!

A sober look at the EU treaties

by Thomas Scherr*

(19 December 2025) The Swiss debate on the European Union is characterised by vague and lukewarm reporting. On 13 June 2025, after weeks of secrecy, the treaties with the European Union were presented for consultation, together with a 931-page “explanatory report.” After the announcement, one would have expected a lively, argumentative debate in the media.

Instead, there is a trickle of reports, and when they do appear, they are “factual”, “positive,” and “neutral”, as if the aim were to sound out positions on some trivial issue. Basically, the reporting could come directly from Brussels, so dovish and friendly is the way our mainstream media presents the matter.

Information is like a trickle of pure water

Fortunately, there are journalists, media outlets, and networks outside the mainstream

by Guy Mettan,* Geneva

(19 December 2025) In the context of the cognitive warfare that we Westerners have been living in for about ten years, information has become a weapon of mass destruction. Or rather, a weapon of massive deception.

In a world where journalists are increasingly disappearing in favour of “information designers”, it is not surprising that information today is produced, formatted, packaged, and distributed like a pack of artificial ham in the supermarket. Even if the ham originally came from a real pig made of flesh and bone, the end product no longer has much to do with the raw material. From its colour to its consistency, not to mention its taste, there is nothing natural about it anymore. It has become completely artificial. The wonders of packaging and marketing do the rest: at the end of the chain, the consumer is left paying for a largely adulterated product.

Those who want to spare children from everything are not doing them any favour

by Allan Guggenbühl*

(19 December 2025) Many parents put their children at the centre of their lives and make no demands of them. But growing up also involves frustration, challenges – and learning to overcome them.

“Sleeping in on Monday morning is a human right!” the teenager declares defiantly. He is outraged that his teacher expects him to be at work at seven o’clock after the weekend. On Monday morning, he needs to recover from the weekend! Getting up early is impossible!