Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Member of the National Council of Switzerland | |
| Assumed office November 2010 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 February 1964 Basel |
| Political party | Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland |
Elisabeth Schneider-Schneiter (born 19 February 1964 Basel) is a Swiss jurist and politician of The Centre (formerly known as the Christian Democratic People's Party). [1]
She has been a member of the parliament of the Canton Basel-Landschaft since 1999, [1] over which she also presided in the term between 2006 and 2007. [2] In November 2010, she replaced the resigning Kathrin Amacker in the National Council. [3] She was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). [4]
At the party conference of the CVP Baselland in October 2018, Schneider-Schneiter was nominated as a candidate for the successor of Doris Leuthard in the Federal Council. [5] She would have been the first Federal Councillor from the Basel Landschaft in 123 years. [5] However, the CVP later decided to present a two-person ticket with the National Councilor Viola Amherd of Canton Valais and the councilor of Uri Heidi Z’graggen for the Federal Council election. [6] Eventually, Viola Amherd was elected into the Federal Council. [7] In the Swiss parliamentary elections in 2019, Schneider-Schneiter was re-elected to the National Council rather comfortably as the CVP entered the elections within a political alliance with the Green Liberal Party (GLP) and the Evangelical People's Party (EVP). [8]
Schneider-Schneiter is the President of the Chamber of Commerce of Basel and a member of the Board of Directors in the Economiesuisse. [9] She is also a Member of the Board at Primeo Energy [10] and the President of the European Youth Choir Festival. [11]
She lives is married and has two children. [12] Living in Biel-Benken, her places of origin are Basel, Lenzburg and Schwendibach. [1]
The Federal Council is the federal cabinet of the Swiss Confederation. Its seven members also serve as the collective head of state and government of Switzerland. Since after World War II, the Federal Council is by convention a permanent grand coalition government composed of representatives of the country's major parties and language regions.
The Evangelical People's Party of Switzerland, Swiss Evangelical Party, or Evangelical Party of Switzerland is a Protestant Christian-democratic political party in Switzerland, active mainly in the Cantons of Bern, Basel-Land, Basel-Stadt, Aargau and Zürich. "Evangelical" translates as evangelisch, the German term for "Protestant", as opposed to "evangelical" as used in Anglo-Saxon Christianity.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Switzerland since 1 July 2022. Legislation to open marriage to same-sex couples passed the Swiss Parliament in December 2020. The law was challenged in a referendum on 26 September 2021 by opponents of same-sex marriage and was approved with the support of 64% of voters and a majority in all 26 cantons. The law went into force on 1 July 2022. A provision of the law permitting same-sex marriages performed abroad to be recognised in Switzerland took effect on 1 January 2022. Switzerland was the seventeenth country in Europe and the 30th in the world to allow same-sex couples to marry.
Karin Keller-Sutter is a Swiss politician who has served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2019. A member of FDP.The Liberals, she is the head of the Federal Department of Finance. Keller-Sutter previously served as President of the Council of States for the 2017–2018 term, and has served as vice president of Switzerland for the 2024 term since 1 January.
Kurds in Switzerland are residents in Switzerland of full or partial Kurds origin. The Kurds in Switzerland mainly reside in the Cantons of Zurich, Aargau and Basel-Stadt and are descendants of migrants of refugees from the regions around Pazarcık, Kahraranmaraş or Erzincan. There are also shia kurdish migrants from Iranian Kurdistan, the region around Ilam and Kermanshah along with Feyli Kurds from Baghdad who mainly reside Geneva and Zürich
Sibel Arslan is a Turkish-born Swiss lawyer and politician who currently serves on the National Council (Switzerland) for the movement BastA!. There she concurrently also is a representative to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2020. She previously served on the Grand Council of Basel-Stadt between 2005 and 2016.
Viola Patricia Amherd is a Swiss politician who has served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council since 2019, and as President of the Swiss Confederation for 2024 since 1 January. She is the head of the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sport. Amherd was a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (CVP/PDC) before it merged with the Conservative Democratic Party (BDP/PBD) to form The Centre (DM/LC) in 2021, which she joined.
The 2025 UEFA Women's Championship will be the 14th edition of the UEFA Women's Championship, the quadrennial international football championship organised by UEFA for the women's national teams of Europe. The tournament will be played in Switzerland from 2 to 27 July 2025. It will be the third edition since it was expanded to 16 teams. The tournament will return to its usual four-year cycle after the previous tournament was indirectly delayed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have spread to Switzerland on 25 February 2020 when the first case of COVID-19 was confirmed following a COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. A 70-year-old man in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino which borders Italy, tested positive for SARS-CoV-2. The man had previously visited Milan. Afterwards, multiple cases related to the Italy clusters were discovered in multiple cantons, including Basel-City, Zürich, and Graubünden. Multiple isolated cases not related to the Italy clusters were also subsequently confirmed.
Beat Jans is a Swiss environmental scientist and politician who currently serves as a member of the Federal Council, after being elected in 2023 to succeed Alain Berset, assuming office on 1 January 2024. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he previously served on the National Council from 2010 to 2020, and president of the Executive Council of Basel-Stadt from 2021 to 2023.
Eva Herzog is a Swiss politician who has represented Basel-Stadt in the Council of States since 2019 and has served as the President of the Council since 2023. She is a member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS).
The Centre or Alliance of the Centre is a centre-right political party in Switzerland. It was formed through the merger of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland (CVP/PDC) and the Conservative Democratic Party of Switzerland (BDP/PBD). Following the formal merger of the parties on 1 January 2021, it has 28 of 200 seats in the National Council and 13 of 46 seats in the Council of States. Viola Amherd is the party's representative on the Federal Council.
Anita Fetz is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and a former member of the National Council and the Council of States in Switzerland.
Élisabeth Baume-Schneider is a Swiss politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and a current member of the Federal Council. She was elected on 7 December 2022, the first ever elected member from the Canton of Jura.
Federal elections were held in Switzerland on 22 October 2023 to elect all members of the National Council and Council of States. The elections were followed by elections to the Federal Council, Switzerland's government and collegial presidency, on 13 December.
Brigitte Häberli-Koller is a Swiss politician of the party The Centre. She is a former member of the National Council and a current of the Council of States of which she served as its president from 2022 to 2023.
An election for all seven members of the Federal Council, Switzerland's government, were held on 13 December 2023 for the 2024–2028 term. It followed the federal election held a month earlier and partly depended on its results.
Eric Nussbaumer is a politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP) and member of the National Council, the lower chamber of the Swiss Parliament. He is the current President of the National Council.
Thomas Jan de Courten is a Swiss businessman and politician. He currently serves as a member of the National Council for the Swiss People's Party (SVP) since 5 December 2011. Between 2003 and 2011, he served in the Cantonal Council of Basel-Landschaft, and as the congressional president for his party since 2007. He was also the president of the national economy and health commissions respectively.
Sandra Sollberger-Muff officially Sandra Sollberger is a Swiss businesswoman and politician. She currently serves as a member of National Council (Switzerland) for the Swiss People's Party since 30 November 2015.