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Continued from previous newsletter SWISS HISTORY The Collapse of the Old Confederation in 1798 and the Long March to the New Federal State of 1848 The Confederates remained neutral during the War of the First Coalition against revolutionary France. But once Napoleon Bonaparte had established French power in northern Italy the military pressure Switzerland increased. Its alpine passes were of strategic importance for the French army, since they commanded the direct route from Paris to Milan. French revolutionary troops marched into the Bernese Vaud on 28 January 1798. The Diet was unable to react decisively to the French invasion. Berne alone withstood the French army, but its forces were defeated at the battle of Grauholz and on 5 March 1798 the victors entered the city. A long and tortuous path led to the foundation of the Swiss Federal state in 1848. The events of 1798 ushered in a 50-year-long political crisis, during which the conservative and progressive forces more than once resorted to violence in attempting to resolve their disputes. The thirteen old cantons were joined by six new ones, the former subject territories of Aargau, Thurgau, Ticino and Vaud and the former Allied Cantons of Sankt Gallen and Graubünden. After Napoleon's defeat the Congress of Vienna (1815) restored the old neutral league of sovereign states. Three new cantons were added: Geneva, Valais, and the Prussian Neuchâtel. The diplomats in Vienna rewarded the Jura to Berne as compensation for the latter's loss of former subject areas in Aargau and Vaud. The Paris revolution of 1830 brought about a change in Switzerland, too. A strong liberal movement began to develop and in a number of cantons the aristocrats were divested of power. The old order found its defenders above all in the Catholic cantons of central Switzerland, and they united their forces in a military defense pact, known as the Sonderbund. Matters came to a head in 1845 against the background of a severe economic crisis. Switzerland's last famine was the result of the terrible potato blight which struck all of Europe. The rise in prices caused a depression in the rural textile industry. After a brief campaign Federal troops occupied Lucerne (1847). The new Federal Constitution guaranteed a whole range of civic liberties, such as the right to reside wherever one wished, freedom of association, and equality before the law. It also heeded the interests of the vanquished minority by making far-reaching provisions to maintain cantonal sovereignty. The Swiss Federal state of 1848 marked the end of 18 years of bitter conflict. By 1850 the Confederation was recognized as the most heavily industrialized country in Europe after Great Britain. But Swiss industry was of the cottage type and had a peasant background. To be continued….
Kommunikationsabteilung 18.09.08 Kontakt mit Auslandschweizern aufrechterhalten! 86. Auslandschweizer-Kongress am 23. August 2008 in Freiburg Am Freitag, 22. August 2008 wurde in Freiburg der 86. Auslandschweizer- Kongress eröffnet. Traditionsgemäss startete der Kongress mit der Sitzung des Auslandschweizerrats (ASR). Dieses «Parlament der Fünften Schweiz» wahrt die Interessen der rund 670'000 im Ausland lebenden Schweizerinnen und Schweizer und ist auch deren Sprachrohr. Im Zentrum der Debatte stand die Zukunft der «Schweizer Revue», der Zeitschrift für Auslandschweizerinnen und Auslandschweizer, deren Budget das EDA um 500'000 CHF kürzen will. Ein weiteres wichtiges Thema war zudem die Einführung des E-Voting für die Auslandschweizerinnen und Auslandschweizer, das der ASR so rasch wie möglich zur Verfügung haben will. > Lesen Sie mehr darüber. Eine Schweiz ohne Grenzen? 86. Auslandschweizer-Kongress ? Freiburg, 23. August 2008 Jedes Jahr treffen sich die Auslandschweizer im August während dreier Tage zu ihrem Kongress ? 2008 fand er in Freiburg statt. Mehr als 400 im Ausland lebende Schweizerinnen und Schweizer nahmen an der 86. Ausgabe teil. Das Thema war die Personenfreizügigkeit. Grenzen überschreiten, als Nichteinheimische im Ausland leben. Die Auslandschweizer kennen viele der themenspezifischen Aspekte aus eigener Erfahrung. Angesichts der Bedeutung der anstehenden Abstimmung über die Personenfreizügigkeit lag es nahe, unseren Landsleuten im Ausland das Wort zu erteilen. Der Samstag versprach sehr interessant zu werden und wurde schliesslich zu einem spannenden und emotionalen Erlebnis.
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