Some elections that were a little out of the radar for many people took place in Switzerland. On October 23, Swiss citizens in the country and abroad were called for elections, which are held every four years, to renew the seats in Parliament. Read the rest of this entry »

Located in central Europe, Switzerland has always been different from all the other European countries. A people who speak four languages, live in a clean and beautiful country and have also had the luck of avoiding the last century wars on its soil due to its neutrality. Or perhaps it was not just chance but also the good sense of forming a way of governing that really represents all the people. If there is a word that one could associate with Switzerland -and I don’t mean mountains, chocolates or watches- is referendum. Read the rest of this entry »

Economic woes are many times followed by political upheaval with extremist parties becoming populist parties and holding the support of the citizens of the countries they represent. Such is unfortunately what seems to be happening in Europe these days. Read the rest of this entry »

Today the Swiss parliament elected two new members of the government in an event that was almost unnoticed in the rest of Europe not to say of the world. And it was not totally unnoticed because for the first time in Swiss history, women became the majority in government in a country that was the last one in Europe to give women the right to vote, in 1971! Read the rest of this entry »

Among the world’s natural disaster news, the bad economic global reports, the craziness of the US politics and their Tea-Party movement, to read that the Swiss wanted to have a referendum to revive capital punishment in the country after 68 years, seemed almost a joke. Read the rest of this entry »

We woke up today to the news of another earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6. It struck eastern Turkey in the pre-dawn hours killing at least 51 people. Read the rest of this entry »

After writing about so many disasters, natural and man-made, I found some different news that could go under a Pet Politics category! Read the rest of this entry »