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The CO2 law wonât âsave the glaciersâ
The committee against the CO2 law gathered 110,000 signatures in less than 100 days; 50,000 were necessary for a referendum. Keystone / Peter Schneider
The revamped CO2 law, which will be decided in a national vote on June 13, is too costly for taxpayers and will not make a significant difference, opponents claim. âState intervention is not needed to reduce carbon emissions,â says Patrick Eperon, one of the referendumâs initiators.
This content was published on May 23, 2021 - 10:00
May 23, 2021 - 10:00
Katy Romy
Journalist based in Bern. I am particularly interested in topics about society, politics and social media. Previously I worked in regional media, for the newspaper Journal du Jura and Radio Jura bernois.â¯
Switzerland qualifies for Eurovision final
Swiss singer Gjon Muharremaj, known professionally as Gjon’s Tears, has made it through to the final of the 2021 Eurovision song contest.
22 year-old Muharremaj lives in Broc in the canton of Fribourg. His father is Kosovo Albanian and his mother Albanian.
Broc is a small town in French-speaking Switzerland not far from the town of Gruyere. It is home to the Cailler chocolate factory, which is linked to the invention of Swiss milk chocolate.
Gjon’s Tears was selected to represent Switzerland in the 2020 Eurovision song contest before it was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Andi Bachmann-Roth is the Secretary-General of SEA, Church Division. (SEA•RES)
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The Swiss federal government plans to introduce a COVID-19 certificate by the summer, which would be compulsory in order to access places of worship in the country. A public consultation process is underway.
The Swiss Evangelical Alliance (SEA•RES) has rejected this measure, stating that “worship is an expression of our religious freedom to assemble and should not be regulated by identity checks of any kind.”
They point out in a statement that such regulation “would be disproportionate, as the evangelical churches have implemented other effective coronavirus protection measures from the outset.