Solothurn is a town,a municipality,and the capital of the canton of Solothurn in Switzerland. It is located in the north-west of Switzerland on the banks of the Aare and on the foot of the Weissenstein Jura mountains.
Ruth Dreifuss is a Swiss economist,unionist and politician who served as a member of the Federal Council (Switzerland) from 1993 to 2002. She served as Vice President of Switzerland in 1998 and as President of Switzerland in 1999 for the Social Democratic Party.
Micheline Anne-Marie Calmy-Rey is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS),she was the head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs during her tenure as a Federal Councillor. She was President of the Swiss Confederation twice,in 2007 and 2011.
Biel/Bienne is a bilingual city in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. With over 55,000 residents,it is the country's tenth-largest city by population. The Biel urban area has a population of around 100,000 inhabitants. Biel/Bienne is the capital of the Biel/Bienne administrative district. The city has been an industrial and watchmaking heart of Switzerland since the 19th century. With world-famous watch brands such as Rolex,Omega and Swatch based in Biel/Bienne,the city is one of the main centres of the Swiss watch industry and is also referred to as the "world capital of watchmaking".
Religion in Switzerland is predominantly Christianity. According to the national survey of the Swiss Federal Statistical Office,in 2020,Christians accounted for 61.2% of the resident population,of whom 33.8% were Catholics,21.8% were Swiss Protestants,and 5.6% were followers of other Christian denominations. The proportion of Christians has declined significantly since 1980,when they constituted about 94% of the population;during the same timespan,unaffiliated Swiss residents have grown from about 4% to 31% of the population,and people professing non-Christian religions have grown from about 1% to 7% of the population. In 2020,according to church registers,35.2% of the resident population were registered members of the country's Catholic Church,while 23.3% were registered members of the Protestant Church of Switzerland.
Poverty in Switzerland refers to people who are living in relative poverty in Switzerland. In 2018,7.9% of the population or some 660,000 people in Switzerland were affected by income poverty. Switzerland has also a significant number of working poor,estimated at 145,000 in 2015.
Esther Duflo Banerjee,FBA is a French–American economist who is the Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
This local electoral calendar for the year 2010 lists the subnational elections held in 2010 in the de jure and de facto sovereign states. By-elections and sub-national referendums are also included.
Cécile Butticaz,also known as Cécile Biéler or Cécile Biéler-Butticaz,was a Swiss engineer. She is considered the first female electrical engineer in Europe,because she earned her engineering diploma in 1907.
The International Workingmen's Association (IWA),often called the First International (1864–1876),was an international organisation which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing socialist,social democratic,communist and anarchist groups and trade unions that were based on the working class and class struggle. It was founded in 1864 in a workmen's meeting held in St. Martin's Hall,London. Its first congress was held in 1866 in Geneva.
Scholastique Mukasonga is a French-Rwandan author born in the former Gikongoro province of Rwanda. In 2012,She won the prix Renaudot and the prix Ahmadou-Kourouma for her book Our Lady of the Nile. In addition to being a finalist for the International Dublin Literary Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize,Mukasonga was rewarded in 2014 with the Seligmann Prize against racism and intolerance and in 2015 with the prize Sociétédes gens de lettres. She currently resides in Normandy,France.
Myriam El Khomri is a former French politician of the Socialist Party (PS) who served as Minister of Labour in the government of Prime Minister Manuel Valls from 2015 to 2017.
Esther Benbassa is a French-Turkish-Israeli historian and politician. She specializes in the history of Jews and other minorities. Since 2011,Benbassa has served as a French senator,representing Paris from 2017 onwards and Val-de-Marne from 2011 to 2017.
Isabelle Moret is a Swiss politician who served as President of the National Council from 2019 to 2020. A member of FDP.The Liberals since its foundation in 2009,she first entered the National Council in 2006 as a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP/PRD). Moret is a resident of Yens-sur-Morges in the canton of Vaud.
Anne-Marijke Podt is a Dutch politician of the social liberal party Democrats 66 (D66),who has been serving as a member of the House of Representatives since September 2021. She had previously been a member of the Utrecht municipal council starting in 2014,and she has worked as an aid worker and as an independent adviser for municipalities.
Frédérique Perler is a Geneva politician and member of the Green Party. She is an administrative councillor (executive) of the city of Geneva since June 1,2020,at the head of the department of planning,construction and mobility. She is also Mayor of Geneva since June 1,2021.
By-elections to the Swiss Federal Council were held on 7 December 2022,after federal councillors Ueli Maurer (SVP-ZH) and Simonetta Sommaruga (SP-BE) announced they would leave the Council effective 31 December of the same year. The parliament elected Albert Rösti and Élisabeth Baume-Schneider respectively to replace them.
Sandra Locher Benguerel is an educator and politician of the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland (SP). Since 2019,she is a member of the National Council,the lower house of the Swiss Parliament.
