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In western Switzerland, restaurants and cultural venues should have reopened after a closure that lasted for several weeks. Frustration with the impending new tightening of the crown’s rules throughout Switzerland is correspondingly great, as SRF correspondent Barbara Colpi notes.
Barbara blows
French correspondent
SRF News: How do you react in French-speaking Switzerland to the Federal Council’s announcement that it intends to tighten the measures against Corona in Switzerland?
Barbara Colpi: There is great discontent, as you can see on social media. Geneva Health Minister Mauro Poggia was also angry at the French-speaking Swiss television RTS.
Geneva Health Minister Mauro Poggia was very angry on television in western Switzerland.
The reason for this is that the cantons of French-speaking Switzerland came together and restaurants and cultural venues closed in early November. In fact, it was able to reduce the number of corona cases, so the establishments should reopen on December 10. New restrictions by the Federal Council threaten again from Saturday.
What bothers the Romans the most?
This is the way things are going: the Federal Council has always insisted that the cantons have to take responsibility. The cantons of western Switzerland did so when the number of cases increased in October. Even back then, they actually wanted standardized solutions across Switzerland, but they fell on deaf ears in Bern.
That annoys in French-speaking Switzerland.
Now all of a sudden the Federal Council is back in your hands because some German-speaking cantons are reacting very little to the growing number of cases. That annoys in French-speaking Switzerland.
So does western Switzerland feel left out?
To some extent, it sure is. The cantons of western Switzerland accuse the Federal Council of establishing uniform rules throughout Switzerland after the French-speaking part of Switzerland has controlled the situation to some extent.
The word of the year here is ‘Coronagraben’, in German.
Nor is it a coincidence that the word of the year in French-speaking Switzerland is “Coronagraben”, in German. This rift in the crown between German-speaking Switzerland and French-speaking Switzerland has certainly gotten a little deeper since yesterday.
The cultural landscape of French-speaking Switzerland had prepared for a soft opening. What do the new measures envisaged by the Federal Council mean to you?
Cantonal governments in French-speaking Switzerland have tried to give a perspective to cinemas and other cultural sites; now all of this may have been ruined again. This is a catastrophe for the cultural scene.
Interview conducted by Salvador Atasoy.
