Protests against militarization and NATO policies are widening in the entire European continent. In some countries, they take also an institutional path of rejection. One of these was Switzerland, where the population was called to vote in a referendum on a proposal that strengthens the country’s neutrality and rejects sanctions’ policies, measures that often accompany militarization of foreign policy by ...
Switzerland is heading to the referendum. It is on September 27. It is about “neutrality”. The “Neutrality Initiative” leads the campaign. Why and what is that? Katy Romy, a correspondent at the Federal Palace for SWI swissinfo.ch, tells us: “Christoph Blocher, the former Swiss government minister who shaped the modern Swiss People’s Party (right-wing), is the man behind the neutrality ...