The very large salary of Viola Amherd’s advisor revealed

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Today’s highlights

AFTER: La Poste provides information on Tuesday on the progress of its project to develop its network of subsidiaries, both physically and digitally, with a view to adapting it to customer needs. She had announced that she would launch into this business in May 2024.

MIDDLE EAST: Federal Councilor Ignazio Cassis is in New York on Tuesday, where he is due, for the second time in just over a week, to chair a meeting of the UN Security Council. This time the session will focus on the Middle East.

UNITED STATES: Democratic candidate for the US presidential election Kamala Harris plans to deliver a “final indictment” against her Republican opponent Donald Trump on Tuesday. The Vice-President of the United States of America is due to speak a stone’s throw from the White House, where Donald Trump addressed his supporters on January 6, 2021, just before they attacked the Capitol. The polls still show the two candidates neck and neck for the presidential election on November 5.

JO: The Olympic Museum of Lausanne unveils on Tuesday a selection of some 120 objects collected during the last Olympic Games (Olympics) in Paris and intended to be used to enrich its collections. From the racket of the Olympic tennis champion, the Serbian Novak Djokovic, to the leotard of the Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade, crowned on the floor in Paris, including outfits from the opening ceremony, around ten iconic objects will be presented .

Seen in the press

SALARY: Brigitte Hauser-Süess, the long-time personal collaborator of the President of the Confederation Viola Amherd, received 97,000 francs for her last three months before her retirement, revealed Tuesday the Neue Zürcher Zeitung, which was able to consult the CONTRACT. The mission includes 70 days of work at a daily rate of 1,140 francs, plus costs and social insurance contributions.

This corresponds to an annual salary of 420,000 francs, the newspaper calculated, which makes her the highest paid collaborator of a federal councilor in history. According to the NZZ, certain details of the contract had been concealed and it was only after the activation of the transparency law that Ms. Amherd and Ms. Hauser-Süess declared themselves ready to reveal the amounts.

TOBACCO: Having barely entered into force on October 1, the new federal law on tobacco products, supposed to prevent the sale of cigarettes and electronic cigarettes to minors, can be circumvented, noted Monday La Liberté, ArcInfo and Le Nouvelliste. “For me, it’s like before,” a 16-year-old student said in the newspapers. “I continue to buy my electronic cigarettes on the Internet,” he adds, stressing that he just needs to confirm that he is over 18 years old.

“This ban on all products for young people is a step forward, but in reality, it will not change much. It is insufficient with all its shortcomings,” explains Luciano Ruggia, director of the Swiss Association for the Prevention of Smoking.

DRUG: A discussion group on the social network Telegram serves as a platform for the large-scale illegal drug trade in Switzerland, the Aargauer Zeitung, the Luzerner Zeitung and the St. Galler Tagblatt reported on Tuesday. The group, which is freely accessible, offers all kinds of drugs, including dangerous substances like fentanyl.

A robot provides users with contact details of local drug sellers. The transaction is then done through direct messages and secret chat. Payment is usually made in cash, cryptocurrency or with the Twint payment app.

PROSTITUTION: Prostitution places have halved in five years in Geneva, the Tribune de Genève reported on Monday. 58 massage parlors are currently active and recorded by the Geneva police, compared to 128 in 2018. Some establishments have stopped their activity for economic reasons, but a little less than half have been closed by the Geneva Department of Institutions and Digital ( DIN) after violations.

Some massage parlors presented “serious breaches of the duties of the manager, or even criminal offenses, such as drugs on the premises, encouragement of prostitution, usury or human trafficking”, specifies in the newspaper Laurent Paoliello, spokesperson for the DIN.

Birthdays and jubilees

20 years ago (2004): EU heads of state and government signed the European Constitution Treaty in Rome, which will never be ratified.

– 25 years ago (1999): a cyclone killed 10,000 people in the Indian state of Orissa.

– 70 years ago (1954): birth of the Bernese writer Matthias Zschokke, winner of the Femina Foreign Prize in 2009 for his novel “Maurice à la Hen”.

– 100 years ago (1924): birth of French resistance fighter and human rights activist Danielle Mitterrand, widow of former president François Mitterrand. She died in 2011.

Saying of the day

“When Simon and Jude do not bring rain, it only comes to Sainte-Cécile.”

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