In his New Year’s speech, the new President of the Confederation Guy Parmelin stressed the importance of cohesion within the population, the key being education. Before coming back to the pandemic, which changed the life of every Swiss.
“We have rarely seen anything like it: our activities have practically stopped. And the whole of society found itself in unprecedented isolation, ”said Guy Parmelin on Friday in his New Year’s speech on German-speaking radio and television SRF. And the situation remains uncertain at the start of the new year.
Rarely have we seen anything like it: our activities have practically stopped.
Guy Parmelin, President of the Confederation
The Vaudois is nevertheless confident. Because Switzerland has often opted for the right choice in the past. The Minister of the Economy recalled that “Swiss made” continues to be a symbol of quality and reliability.
He then focused on education, which “is fundamentally, according to him, the key to the cohesion of Switzerland, this being a prerequisite for dialogue and exchange. At a time when relations forcibly unstable, education paves the way for peaceful conflict resolution.
Switzerland continues to move forward. “Our good education system helps us, education is our universal language,” he said. It will allow Switzerland to remain united in its diversity.
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