The long Swiss humanitarian tradition

“Where there are conflicts, we have a very important role”. The long Swiss humanitarian tradition, Interview with Ambassador Martin Dahinden / Making the world more humane, by Thomas Kaiser / “Good contact to people who live
in extremely difficult conditions”, Interview with Jean Mohr / Gold means independence. A “Yes” to the initiative strengthens the stability of Switzerland and thus our political direct democratic system, so also the economy and last but not least the banking centre Switzerland, Interview with Luzi Stamm / Neutrality must not be put at risk. Reflections on the 200 years of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and Russia, by Jean A. Mirimanoff / Genscher criticizes sanctions against Russia / Geneva Ukraine Initiative. Business leaders from Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Europe, and the United States worked out common basic principles to solve the Ukraine conflict / “Expansion of the EU and NATO towards Russia must be perceived by Putin as a threat”. Panel discussion in Berne / TTIP – What we should consider in the Transatlantic embrace, by Dr Wohlmeyer / Searching reasonable compromises with Russia / Politicians of the Visegrád Group criticize EU sanctions against Russia / Homo familiaris – human beings and their families according to natural law and personalist psychology, In commemoration of Dr Annemarie Buchholz-Kaiser,
by Hideshi Yamada / Language as a bridge towards other humans, by Dr Eliane Gautschi / Foreign languages, competences and societal consensus, by Elsbeth Schaffner / The sooner the better? The debate of foreign language teaching at elementary school level, by Dr Eliane Gautschi / The dual vocational educational system – a blessed achievement for society as a whole and for the individuals living in it, by Marianne Wüthrich / The dual vocational training has to be preserved as an equal opportunity beside the academic way – rejection of the “Bologna system”.