News and saying of the day: Geneva teachers are making headlines!

Keystone-ATS gives you a first overview of the news, with the latest news unearthed in the press. Without forgetting birthdays and the saying of the day!

Today’s highlights

CONSEIL FEDERAL : The Center defines on Monday the application procedure for the succession of Viola Amherd to the Federal Council. Several names are already circulating, especially German-speaking men. The current president of the Center Gerhard Pfister (ZG) has decided not to run. The two senators Benedikt Würth (SG) and Isabelle Chassot (FR) have already announced that they are not running either.

WEF 2025 : Davos is starting to get busy on the eve of the official opening of the World Economic Forum on Tuesday. The inauguration at the end of the day on Monday of the President of the United States-elect Donald Trump will certainly attract the attention of the approximately 3,000 people expected in the Graubünden resort. The Crystal Awards will also be presented to the winners, including footballer David Beckham.

UNITED STATES : Donald Trump becomes the new president of the United States this Monday. In front of Congress and a crowd that could exceed 200,000 people, the Republican will take the oath. In a nod to history, this day promises to be the coldest in Washington, with -6°, since the inauguration of Ronald Reagan in 1985 (-14°).

EUROVISION OF SONG: The SSR and the organizers of the Eurovision Contest 2005 in Basel reveal, Monday afternoon, which personalities will present the three major television shows, on May 13, 15 and 17 at the Halle St-Jacques. They will also provide new information on ticket sales and the framework program of the festivities.

Seen in the press

TEACHING: During the study day on the reform of the Cycle last week, teachers engaged in “unacceptable” behavior, according to the Geneva Council of State, reports the Tribune de Genève. Its president, Nathalie Fontanet, put them back to order on Friday. In an email addressed to all teachers, she recalls their duty as civil servants and to set an example. Last week, teachers booed Anne Hiltpold, the head of public education.

JUSTICE : The Zurich District Court surprised by canceling the hearing in the defamation case against Islam critic Saida Keller-Messahli. Judge Thomas Grob declared the criminal complaints of the mosque associations of Zurich and Vaud void, report the German-speaking newspapers of CH Media. The reason for this cancellation would be that not all potential co-responsibles have been denounced. The dispute finds its source in an interview published in Le Matin Dimanche in which Saïda Keller-Messahli warned against the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in Swiss mosques. The plaintiffs have until January 24 to develop or withdraw their criminal complaints.

Birthdays and jubilees

– 5 years ago (2020): China announces that a virus transmissible from human to human has broken out in Wuhan, more than three weeks after the appearance of the first patients in clinics. The Covid-19 pandemic will cause up to 20 million deaths.

– 10 years ago (2015): Death of German musician Edgar Froese, pioneer of electric music. He was a member of the group Tangerine Dream. He was born in 1944.

– 30 years ago (1995): Inauguration of the Normandy Bridge, the largest cable-stayed bridge in the world, linking Le Havre to Honfleur over the Seine estuary.

– 80 years ago (1945): The 32nd President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, takes the oath of office for the fourth time. He is the only president to have done so.

– 90 years ago (1935): Birth of the Austrian-German actor and director Achim Benning. He directed the Zurich Schauspielhaus from 1992 to 1999.

– 100 years ago (1925): Birth of the Swiss writer Eugen Gomringer, inventor of “concrete poetry”. He is in Cachuela Esparanza (Bolivia), of a Swiss father and a Bolivian mother.

– 100 years ago (1925): Birth of Nicaraguan poet, Catholic priest and politician Ernesto Cardenal, figure of the Sandinista revolution and liberation theology.

– 150 years ago (1775): Birth of the French scholar André-Marie Ampère. Considered the precursor of the mathematization of physics, he is the creator of the vocabulary of electricity (he invented the terms “current” and “voltage”) and his name was given to the international unit of intensity of the current He died in 1836.

Saying of the day

On San Sebastian, winter starts again, or breaks its teeth