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29.11.2024
Today’s highlights
WORK : The Travail.Suisse union presents its annual barometer on working conditions on Friday. This survey provides important information on the situation of workers in the areas of health, safety at work and motivation. It also places particular emphasis on workers’ health problems and on the promotion and participation in continuing training.
IRANIAN NUCLEAR: Talks are being held on Friday in Geneva between Iran, Germany, France and the United Kingdom to discuss the Iranian nuclear issue, Russia and the situation in the Middle East, less than two months before returning home -Donald Trump’s white. Placed as a follow-up to a meeting in New York in September, the meeting is shrouded in the greatest discretion, neither the names of the participants nor the place where the diplomats of the four countries are to meet having been revealed.
IRELAND: The Irish vote on Friday in legislative elections which promise to be close, with the three main parties neck and neck. The campaign was dominated by the housing crisis and the cost of living. According to the latest opinion poll, published Wednesday evening, Fianna Fail would come first with 22% of the vote, ahead of Fine Gael (down) and Sinn Fein (up), tied at 20%. Independents would win 14% of the votes. Sinn Fein, which campaigns for the reunification of the island, came first in the 2020 legislative elections, but the coalition government was built without the left-wing nationalist party.
TODAY IS…: Like every November 29, today is the international day of solidarity with the Palestinian people. The date November 29 has special significance for Palestinians, because it was on this day in 1947 that the UN General Assembly adopted the resolution providing for the partition of Palestine into two states. All information on the UN website:
Seen in the press
MIGRATION : PS co-president Cédric Wermuth said he had no fear on Friday in the Basler Zeitung, the Berner Zeitung, the Bund and the Tages-Anzeiger about the effect of immigration in Switzerland on infrastructure. “Twelve million people in Switzerland? It’s not a wish on my part, but it’s doable,” he says. The Aargau national councilor points to the prosperity brought by immigration, noting that Switzerland would become a “Singapore of the Alps” if it were up to the right-wing parties: “Low taxes and practically no social rules, equality or ecological for businesses”. Mr. Wermuth says he is ready to support an agreement with the European Union (EU) if the package, currently being negotiated, is “generally good”. What is decisive is that public service and salaries are protected, specifies the co-president of the PS.
ASYLUM: The president of the SVP Marcel Dettling strongly attacks the Minister of Justice and Police Beat Jans in Friday’s Blick for his measures on immigration. Mr. “Jans relies on Germany instead of doing his job himself,” says Mr. Dettling. Mr. “Jans feels that 25,000 asylum seekers per year are not a problem. It is the people who must pay for this error of judgment,” adds the Schwyz national councilor. The SVP will again present its demands to the Federal Councilor next week, warns Mr. Dettling.
IA : Swisscom has commissioned an artificial intelligence (AI) platform in Zurich with the aim of promoting the development of sovereign solutions for Swiss companies, Le Temps reported on Friday. The Swiss AI Platform was created in close collaboration with the American chip manufacturer Nvidia. “Our goal is really to help Swiss companies in the field of AI,” explains Urs Lehner, head of commercial customers at Swisscom, in the newspaper. The Swiss operator cites the example of the cantonal bank of Thurgau, which is currently testing a conversational agent assisting staff wishing to find out about internal directives. “An automated response to online customer requests is also being developed,” specifies Swisscom.
Birthdays and jubilees
– One year ago (2023): the Signa holding company of Austrian real estate investor René Benko files an insolvency application with the Vienna Commercial Court. Signa notably includes large real estate portfolios and the Swiss department store group Globus.
– One year ago (2023): American politician Henry Alfred Kissinger dies at age 100. National Security Advisor and Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, this Republican helped define the foreign policy of the United States of America between 1969 and 1977.
– 20 years ago (2004): death of American actor John Drew Barrymore (“The Fifth Victim”). He was the son of Hollywood legend John Barrymore and the father of actress Drew Barrymore.
– 50 years ago (1974): German left-wing terrorist Ulrike Meinhof, member of the Red Army Faction (RAF), is sentenced to eight years in prison.
– 50 years ago (1974): the French Parliament approves the bill carried by Simone Veil on voluntary termination of pregnancy (IVG).
– 70 years ago (1954): birth of American director and producer Joel Coen (“Fargo”, “The Big Lebowski”).
– 75 years ago (1949): birth of American actor Garry Shandling (“Hunted in Manhattan”). He died in 2016.
– 80 years ago (1944): Albania is definitively liberated with the departure of the German army from the city of Shkodra. November 29 has been the Albanian national holiday ever since.
– 100 years ago (1924): death of Italian composer Giacomo Puccini (“La Bohème”, “Tosca”, “Madama Butterfly”). He was born in 1858.
Saying of the day
“When in November the rain drowns the earth, it will be good for the whole winter.”
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