Mass immigration: when the economic elites fabricate a false debate
For years, a section of the economic elite has been trying to impose a simple idea: without mass immigration, Switzerland would collapse. In his recent article, Ivan Slatkine, President of the Fédération des Entreprises Romandes, takes up this alarmist line, describing a Switzerland paralysed, emptied of its workers and condemned to decline. But behind these [...]
Immigration and political calculation: the Swiss taboo
What if Switzerland's rapid demographic transformation was not just an economic consequence, but also a political choice? In the space of twenty years, our country's population has grown from around 7 million to over 9 million, with visible effects on wages, housing and public finances. In the run-up to the vote on 14 [...]
Free movement and mass immigration: the hidden bill crushing the Swiss middle class
What if mass immigration also had a hidden tax bill? For twenty years, the debate on free movement has focused almost exclusively on the needs of the economy. But there is a much more concrete reality that directly affects the middle class: the faster the population grows, the more the state has to spend - and the more the [...]
Migros wants us to eat laboratory food: has the cooperative lost touch with reality?
Migros now wants to produce steaks... without cows. In Kemptthal (ZH), the famous cooperative is supporting a project to grow meat from bovine cells in a laboratory, in partnership with Israeli start-up Aleph Farms and flavour giant Givaudan. Presented as a major food innovation, this initiative is nonetheless raising [...]