Keystone-ATS gives you a first overview of the news, with the primeurs found in the press. Without forgetting the birthdays and the saying of the day!
The strengths of the day
Voting: After the start of the school year, the next federal votes will be quickly at the agenda on September 28. The first 20 -minute and Tamedia surveys are published this Wednesday, concerning the two objects for which the referendum resulted: the law on electronic identity and cantonal land tax on second homes.
ENVIRONMENT: Federal advisor Albert Rösti joined Geneva this Wednesday and negotiations for an international agreement against plastic pollution. With dozens of his counterparts, he must try to contribute to a more political approach to settle the divisions between groups of states.
UKRAINE: The scheduled meeting between Trump and Putin on Friday in Alaska is already preparing upstream. This Wednesday, the representatives of the EU states will first discuss with Volodymyr Zelensky, then with Donald Trump.
FOOTBALL: A first European trophy will be at stake this evening in Udine. Paris Saint-Germain will indeed face Tottenham from 9:00 p.m. during the European Super Cup.
Seen in the press
Skill. The projects for the village of Blatten (VS), affected by a landslide, are on the right track. The inhabitants should be able to return to their native village in 2029, indicate the Walliser Bote and the Neue Zürcher Zeitung after a municipal assembly on the future of the locality. Initially, the return was scheduled for 2030. The reason for this acceleration would be a period linked to the payment of insurance allowances. Until now, the projects have been ahead of the calendar, according to the words of the president of the commune of Blatten, Matthias Bellwald in the Walliser Bote. The online NZZ underlines that this calendar contrasts with the many uncertainties surrounding reconstruction, especially because the small summit of the Nesthorn continues to crumble.
COMMERCE. The Lufthansa plans to process its purchases from Boeing via Switzerland. This is a proposal among several other destinies to set up a “creative commercial accounting” vis-à-vis the United States write the German-style titles of Tamedia. If Lufthansa decided to opt for this solution, no additional device would be built in the United States. President Donald Trump could nevertheless interpret this as a success, believing that the trade deficit with Switzerland would have been reduced. There would be no direct consequences for Swiss and his passengers. Lufthansa provides for the delivery, over the next seven years, of Boeing aircraft for a value of more than 21 billion Swiss francs, not to mention the significant discounts granted for large volumes. The idea of treatment via Switzerland was already being studied at Lufthansa even before the announcement of American customs duties on import.
Cosmetique. European regulations taken up by Switzerland has repercussions on the country’s 3,500 manicure salons. From September 1, Switzerland will ban TPO (Triméthylbenzoyle Diphenylphosphine Oxide), a chemical substance in certain nail polish, the Federal Office for Food Safety and Veterinary Affairs said on July 18. For fairs, the elimination of these products as special waste represents a high cost, according to the Blick. In Germany, the same law is interpreted differently: salons are allowed to sell products still in stock.
Near East. Israel should not, according to the Israeli ambassador to Switzerland Tibor Schlosser, give in to the calls in favor of a two -state solution. “Especially not now, like a reward for the mass massacre committed by Hamas,” said Schlosser in an interview with the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. He clarified to make this point “as Kibbutznik”, that is to say as someone rather close to the left in Israel. The NZZ looked at the position of the ambassador: he describes himself as a patriot and Zionist. Openly, he cannot oppose the Israeli government, but on certain controversial points, for example the cessation of payments to UNRWA, he is nuanced.
Birthdays and jubilees
– 5 years ago (2020): The United Arab Emirates and Israel establish complete diplomatic relations. After Egypt (1979) and Jordan (1994), the Emirates are only the third Arab country to be ready to conclude peace with the Hebrew State.
– 25 years ago (2000): Death of the German resistant Ria Deeg. Under Nazism, she distributed leaflets, collected funds for Red Rescue, hidden an illegal typewriter in the room of a member of the SA who lived in sublet in her mother. Arrested in November 1934, she was sentenced to 38 months in prison. After the war, she participated in actions against nuclear power, hosted by Chilean refugees, supported the Spanish anti -fascists, the eyelet revolution in Portugal and the fight against the Greek military dictatorship.
– 70 years ago (1955): Birth of British director Paul Greengrass (“Death in the skin”, “revenge in the skin”, second and third parts of the Jason Bourne franchise).
– 80 years ago (1945): Birth of the Romand Jazz Saxophonist Daniel Bourquin. He died in 2023.
– 85 years ago (1940): Nazi Germany is launching a series of large -scale attacks against the British Royal Air Force installations as part of the “Battle of England”.
– 120 years ago (1905): Norvègians vote almost unanimously for the dissolution of personal union with Sweden. A few weeks later, the Karlstad Treaty recognized the independence of Norway.
Dicton of the day
If it rains on the day of Sainte-Radegonde, misery falls on the world
