The arrival
On Wednesday afternoon, shortly before 2 p.m., the French presidential couple landed in Bern-Belp. Federal President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Muriel Zeender Berset received the distinguished visitors. We continued to the Bundesplatz. The entire Federal Council was already there waiting for the guests. The presidential couple also received military honors.
They talk
The French president had a lot to say during these two days. He gave speeches in the foyer of the Federal Palace, in the Paul Klee Center in Bern and at a public event at the University of Lausanne.
The First Lady
The Première Dame also had a tight program in Switzerland. Brigitte Macron attended the École cantonale de langue française in Bern. She had been a teacher herself before giving up teaching in favor of her representative duties as First Lady.
The gala dinner
On Wednesday evening, Federal President Alain Berset and Muriel Zeender Berset welcomed the French presidential couple to a gala dinner in Bern.
The train and Cern
A special train took the French president to Geneva on Thursday, where he would visit the Cern research center.
The headwind
Not everyone was happy with Macron’s visit. About 200 students protested on the university campus in Lausanne on Thursday morning. They chanted, among other things, ‘Macron accomplice!’ and carried banners reading ‘Stop Genocide’ or ‘Free Palestine’. There was a heavy police presence on campus.
(hah/with material from SDA)
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