Blue news and Keystone-ATS give you a first overview of the news, with the primeurs found in the press. Without forgetting the birthdays and the saying of the day!
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The strengths of the day
1er May: The unions parade Thursday in around forty Swiss cities, under the watchword “Solidarity rather than hatred, union is strength”. The union movement must more than ever assert itself in front of the extreme right, they believe. Unions fear in particular for social progress or gender equality. Labor party parades are also planned all over the world.
United KINGDOM: The British go to the polls Thursday for municipal elections. The two main British parties, Labor and the Conservatives, are likely to undergo losses for the benefit of the far -right formation Reform UK, which hopes to win dozens of seats of municipal councilors, mayors but also a seat of deputy to strengthen its credibility. This is the first ballot in the country since the ruling of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s plowing in July.
CYCLING: The peloton disputes Thursday the second stage of the Tour of Romandie Cycling on a 157 -kilometer loop at La Grande Béroche (NE). Four climbs, which are far enough from the final, are on the program. Wedding Wednesday in Sprint in Friborg, the Briton Matthew Brennan seized the yellow jersey.
Seen in the press
Attempted murder: A Vaudois gendarme, who had shot in 2022 at Chexbres (VD) on a pedestrian who was wrongly judged as threatening, was found guilty of attempted murder and abuse of authority by the Vevey Criminal Court (VD), reports the 24 -hour newspaper on Thursday. He was sentenced to a year in suspended prison.
In search of an armed fugitive, the agent had intercepted an apprentice baker who went to work, headphones in the ears. Believing that the young man was going to take out a pistol, when he only reduced the sound of music on his phone, the gendarme had opened fire without touching him.
International Geneva: After the cuts imposed on several UN agencies such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (OIM), the UN headquarters in Geneva is in turn under pressure, reports on Thursday.
In a note released on April 25, the office of the Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres, asks the seats in new York and Geneva to identify workstations that can be relocated to less expensive cost places from 2026. Part of the 3,500 positions attached to the UN Secretariat in Geneva is concerned. Mr. Guterres’ secretariat requires an answer by May 16. “For International Geneva, it’s a blow,” said the president of the UN staff union, Ian Richards in the newspaper.
WILDLIFE: Six new wolf packs could form in the canton of Graubünden, writes the Südostschweiz on Thursday. The cantonal hunting and fishing office observed the presence of six wolf couples. It is “not a big surprise,” said Arno Puorger, the head of the department of major predators.
We will know in summer if new packs will be formed with the births of Cubs, he adds. A lynx was also detected for the first time in the southern valleys of Mesolcina and Calanca. It is a historical evolution, according to the manager, because the feline thus reconquer a habitat in which he had always been present until his disappearance of Switzerland.
Birthdays and jubilees
– A year ago (2024): Death of the American writer Paul Auster at the age of 77 (“New York Trilogy”). His works were translated into more than 40 languages.
– 5 years ago (2020): Death of the former chief of the Swiss army Christophe Keckeis at the age of 75. The Neuchâtel led the army from January 2004 to December 2007.
– 30 years ago (1995): Liechtenstein became a member of the European Economic Area (EEE).
– 70 years ago (1955): Birth of the French singer and actress Julie Pietri (“Eve get up”).
– 80 years ago (1945): German radio announced the death of Adolf Hitler. The Führer designated Admiral Karl Dönitz as successor by Testament.
– 80 years ago (1945): the Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda made cyanide ingest for their six children in the Führer bunker, before committing suicide themselves.
– 125 years ago (1900): Birth of the Italian writer Ignazio Silone. First a fervent communist, he then turned away to turn to socialism. He started writing in exile in Switzerland (“the school of dictators”). He died in 1978 in Geneva.
– 200 years ago (1825): Death of the Italian Patriot Matilde Viscontini Dembowski, member of the Carbonari, famous for having been the unhappy love of the French writer Stendhal.
Dicton of the day
“Rain on the first day of May takes off in quality fodder”.
