Si billag ! Malheureusement

Chère Therese une très large majorité de citoyens a définitivement décidé que le Service Publique ne doit pas se soumettre aux lois du profit à tout pris. Je pense que notre indépendance est bien plus importante que les projets libéristes de quelques politiciens qui se disent patriotiques mais n'ont aucune crainte à liquider notre Pays aux groupes d’intérêts privés, sûrement étrangers aussi. Je suis fier de mes compatriotes; je ne suis pas un nationaliste dans le sens classique du terme, loin de là, mais j'aime mon Pays et je veux qu'il garde son côté social assez développé malgré toutes les critiques - même justes - qu'on puisse lui adresser.

Grafitti on snow. Fortunately it won´t stay there for long.

You're right, Eva. However the meaning of that graffiti represent a great victory in the Swiss Democracy... I have added an explanation under the picture if you want to read it...

Have a nice day, Andrea

Beautiful view.

Stunning mountains.

Great! And also great that you don´t need a workforce to erase the graffiti

Yes, a reassuring result! And what calms me down too: even the young people have rejected the initiative with more than 65%. Exactly the young people for the initiators have always given as the reason that we don't need the SRG anymore, because they use other channels for their information. Now we know that it's not true.
But, what is very scary that similar efforts are underway in other European countries as well. In Germany for example and also in Austria. In Austria the right-wing populist party FPÖ already has a certain influence on the design of the information channels of the ORF.
Extremely bad it's in Poland, there already is censorship!

Of course, Poly, neoliberism is global and I am not surprised about similar manoeuvres in other Countries. However we have shown that it is possible to resist and even the New York Times has written a long article after our choice to maintain the Public Service. I think that our small Country can now give a virtuous example. I believe in a liberal (but not liberist) economy, where the State still belongs basic and vital services which cannot be left to private interests. I also agree with you: our young people are not shortsighted as the initiators claim and continue to say despite the clear result of the vote. Therefore I don't think that we won't have do anymore with them. At the opposite they already are trying to organize another Abstimmung to undermine as much as possible the Public Service and the State in its entirety. As Ken Loach has said on the Piazza Grande during the Film Festival of Locarno in 2016, "there is an alternative but... we have to fight for it" .

Wonderful scenic landscape. Congratulations on The Swiss Victory Well done Andrea Regards Tess

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