The essentials of the day –The beginnings of Léon XIV, customs duties: what should not be missed this Friday
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Most of the day of May 9, 2025.
Sébastien Féval
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A first mass for Léon XIV
The American Robert Francis Prevostelected Thursday after the conclavemade his first pope’s first steps this Friday. The one who is now called Leon XIV celebrated his first mass As a sovereign pontiff in front of all the cardinals in the Sistine Chapel. In his homilyhe deplored the decline in faith in favor “other certainties such as technology, money, success, power”. He will make his second appearance on Sunday at noon Place Saint-Pierre for the traditional Sunday prayer from the window of the apostolic palace.
Customs duties: Switzerland and the United States “agree” to accelerate discussions
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, with Karin Keller-Sutter this Friday in Geneva.
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-Gathered in Geneva this Friday, Switzerland and the United States came to “agree” to accelerate discussions on American customs dutiesannounced Karin Keller-Sutter after a meeting with senior American officials. “The American side is committed to accelerating the process with Switzerland,” said the president of the Confederation.
How Switzerland is preparing for a blackout
And if we know, like Spain and Portugal recently, a sudden power cut? If the authorities do not deny that this could very well happen on Swiss soil, they want to be reassuring: Switzerland is better connected than the Iberian Peninsula to the European network and it can count on its hydraulic energy. But the Federal Electricity Commission also has a rescue plan In several steps ready to be applied.
Switzerland begins its world ice hockey championship
The 2025 World Cup begins this Friday in Stockholm (Sweden) and Herning (Denmark, secondary site), where the Swiss national team will play its seven games in the qualifying phase. And reigning vice-champions begin their tournament this first day against the Czech Republic, which had beaten them last year in the final. Heavy for the men of Patrick Fischer.
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What weather for this weekend?
If the week has seen the return freshness and rainthe weekend promises to be better auspices. The days will be soft and sunny in French -speaking Switzerland, the thermometer climbing to reach around twenty degrees. But, you should not be rejoiced too quickly, because an unstable time is already planned for the beginning of next week.
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