Apprenticeship 2030: raising standards to save Switzerland's strengths
This article is part of the “Apprenticeship 2030” Pact, a comprehensive strategy paper addressed to federal parliamentarians. It proposes a coherent set of concrete measures - merit, requirements, honest guidance, support for SMEs, modernisation of content and gradual skills upgrading - to secure apprenticeships and skilled work in Switzerland over the long term. The note [...]
Apprenticeships at risk: the bilateral agreements have downgraded the CFC
For decades, apprenticeship has been one of the Confederation's greatest success stories: an effective social lift, a guarantee of dignity through work and a pillar of economic prosperity. The Federal Certificate of Competence embodied this unique Swiss promise, based on competence, effort and local roots. But for over [...]
The euro is not under threat. It is already doomed. And some people are making a very good living out of this agony
We are repeatedly told that the euro is «solid», «irreversible» and «too important to fall». This is precisely what was said about all the great artificial currencies before they collapsed. Behind the reassuring rhetoric lies a brutal reality: a currency without a nation, without real political sovereignty and kept alive [...].