Sunday, December 22, 2024
Published: Sunday, Dec 22nd 2024, 06:30
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The center is presenting a counter-proposal to the "No 10 million Swiss" initiative, Swiss is annoyed about the baggage sorting system at the airport and a psychiatrist from the city of Zurich presides over a sect: This and more can be found in the Sunday papers. The headlines in unverified reports:
"SonntagsBlick":
The Swiss Confederation has commissioned the Geneva Center for Humanitarian Dialogue to mediate in the Eritrean diaspora in Switzerland. As reported by "Sonntagsblick", the organization, which brings warring parties to the negotiating table worldwide, is tasked with de-escalating tensions between supporters and opponents of the Eritrean military dictatorship. Martin von Muralt, delegate of the Swiss Security Association (SVS), confirmed initial talks with the groups concerned to the newspaper. The aim of the project is to prevent violence on Swiss streets through dialog. However, according to von Muralt, mediation is proving difficult as there are also differing views within the groups. There have been repeated violent clashes in the Eritrean community in Switzerland.
"Le Matin Dimanche":
The Center Party has taken the wind out of the SVP's sails with a proposal to regulate immigration within the framework of the EU agreement. According to "Le Matin Dimanche", the Center Party wants to submit its proposal as a direct counter-proposal to the SVP initiative "No 10 million Swiss". The population is to decide on this before a vote on the entire package with the EU. The aim is to secure the bilateral agreements with Brussels. The FDP supports the proposal, while the Greens are skeptical. The SP is demanding a guarantee for the protection of wages, it added.
"NZZ am Sonntag":
The number of misrouted Swiss baggage items at Zurich Airport has doubled compared to before the pandemic. The reason for this is the modernization of the airport's baggage sorting system, said Swiss Head of Operations Oliver Buchhofer in the "NZZ am Sonntag". The system recently went on strike for several hours, and not for the first time, he criticized. Swiss considers itself particularly affected, as it is solely responsible for compensation such as hotel costs and lost luggage. "In the first nine months of 2024, we paid over CHF 10 million in compensation for our guests alone, in addition to hotel and meal costs. And the trend is rising," said Buchhofer. Punctuality also remains a problem: although it had risen to 65% by mid-December 2024, it was still below the target of 70%, Buchhofer continued.
"NZZ am Sonntag":
SECRETARY: The Christian sect Shincheonji, known for its aggressive proselytizing, mainly targets young people in Switzerland. Research by the "NZZ am Sonntag" shows that the community is led by a small circle. According to estimates by Relinfo, it has 300 to 400 members in Switzerland. The president of the sect, which is entered in the commercial register as an association, is a psychiatrist who works for the city of Zurich. According to the NZZ, he has been active since Shincheonji was founded in Switzerland in 2016. When asked by the newspaper, he emphasized that his personal faith is not related to his professional activities. He has never broken his professional code of conduct. He also rejected any allegations of misconduct by Shincheonji. His employer, the City of Zurich, stated that it had no knowledge of this involvement, but was taking the case seriously and would investigate it closely.
"NZZ am Sonntag":
Silvia Steiner, President of the Swiss Conference of Cantonal Ministers of Education, has defended the language compromise and early French at primary school level. In an interview with "NZZ am Sonntag", she emphasized the importance of language skills for the cohesion of Switzerland, but admitted that the demands on foreign language teaching need to be reconsidered. In view of AI translators, the focus in future should be less on vocabulary learning and more on understanding the language and the ability to critically assess machine translations. She sees the implementation of these approaches as a task for universities of teacher education. According to the NZZ, international studies rate Switzerland's reading and writing skills as poor. Steiner counters: "We can't constantly cry out for digitalization, install spelling programs on all computers and then demand that children know exactly how to spell every word correctly.
"SonntagsBlick":
The energy sector is accused of having achieved its record profits through inflated electricity prices. According to SonntagsBlick, the national grid company Swissgrid has recorded profits of CHF 788 million since 2014, of which CHF 319 million went to shareholders as dividends. Axpo and BKW in particular, which own more than two thirds of Swissgrid, benefited to the tune of around CHF 200 million, which also benefited the Group management. According to the newspaper, Swissgrid justified the whole thing with the fact that Axpo, BKW and Co. had to relinquish "ownership and responsibility" for the Swiss transmission grid from 2013. In return, the electricity companies would have received Swissgrid shares equivalent to the value of the assets transferred. The Swiss Federal Electricity Commission criticized the high return on capital in the electricity grid (WACC) as excessive. The Federal Council is planning to adjust the calculation methodology in order to avoid unjustified returns.
"SonntagsZeitung":
After five years of work, satirist Andreas Thiel has completed his cinema comedy "Kalbermatten". The film will be shown regularly in cinemas from January after Thiel raised six million francs without state funding, as he told the SonntagsZeitung newspaper. The affair surrounding his statements critical of Islam and the subsequent TV scandal with Roger Schawinski in 2014 severely damaged his career. Thiel was boycotted in the cultural scene, had to perform under police protection and lost his financial base. Looking back, he described the break as an opportunity for reorientation. His film is about a political satire in the village of Kalbermatten, which is sinking into the battle of the sexes. Despite boycott-like difficulties, Thiel found private investors and supporters for his project. He is now planning a sequel and the construction of a private film studio in Regensdorf ZH.
"Le Matin Dimanche "The popularity of Chinese fondues increases with Christmas - and with it the number of foodborne infections. Up to 10,000 cases are reported in Switzerland every year, Tiziana Boebner Lombardo, spokeswoman for the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO), told Le Matin Dimanche. The resulting costs amount to up to CHF 50 million per year. Young men are particularly frequently affected. To avoid infection, raw poultry should never be placed in the food dish, the FSVO emphasized.
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