Rive-Reine Conference
The Rive-Reine Conference is an annual meeting of around 50 influential personalities from politics, business and society in Switzerland. In addition to CEOs, Nestlé invites one or two Federal Councilors as well as the heads of the Federal Council parties, the churches and the trade unions. The conference has been held at the Hotel Rive-Reine in La Tour-de-Peilz , Nestlé's training center, since 1976 . The current organizer is the Chairman of the Néstle Board of Directors, Peter Brabeck-Letmathe . Before him, the former Federal Councilor Kaspar Villiger and Rainer E. Gut as board members of Nestlé were the hosts. The meetings became known through the book Greed for Power. Who really rules Switzerland. by SonntagsBlick correspondent Viktor Parma.
Protests against the conference took place for the first time on January 18, 2010, and Swiss television reported on the conference for the first time. The last meeting took place on January 17, 2011, and was reported on by French-speaking Swiss television . On January 16, 2012, the meeting wasn't a big press issue. Just 20 minutes, We Are Change and the weekly newspaper reported on the event. The expected meeting in 2013 was not mentioned in any press release, which does not rule out its existence. The next meeting is expected on January 13 or 20, 2014. The conference building was built in the 19th century for Auguste von Harrach , the second wife of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. built and converted into a hotel after her death. The Nestlé Group bought it in 1969 and uses it as a training center.
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Known topics
The exact details about the process, the presentations and discussions are not known. Only the title or the main topics of the events are partially made public.
| year | theme | Speaker |
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| 2006 | Switzerland in the field of tension between global financial markets and the domestic economy | |
| 2007 | The future agricultural policy for a globalizing Switzerland | |
| 2008 | Identity of Switzerland (financial crisis) | |
| 2009 | ? | |
| 2010 | Defense against rip-off initiative and bonus taxes | |
| 17th Jan 2011 | Demographics, Migration and Aging | Hamburg professor Rainer Münz |
| 16th Jan 2012 | The international debt crisis and migration | |
| 2013 | Subject unknown as there is no information in the press. | |
| 23 Jan 2016 | Growth? At what price | u. a. Silvio Borner |
criticism
The organization Public Eye on Davos criticizes the meetings because of the lack of transparency towards the public. The conference is similar to the Bilderberg conference , also a meeting behind closed doors and thus contrasts with the WEF, whose content is partially publicly accessible. National Councilor Oskar Freysinger submitted an interpellation on the subject in December 2011.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Constantin Seibt : Rive-Reine: The most secret conference in Switzerland In: Basler Zeitung from January 20, 2010
- ↑ Constantin Seibt: "An almost Stalinist secrecy" . In: Berner Zeitung from January 16, 2011
- ↑ Viktor Parma: Greed for power. Who really rules Switzerland. Nagel + Kimche Verlag AG, 2007, ISBN 3-312-00399-7 .
- ↑ Marc Meschenmoser Secret meeting of the Swiss elite ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Schweizer Fernsehen from January 18, 2010
- ↑ G. Kühn: Nestlé organize the "rencontres de Rive-Reine" ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Western Switzerland television from January 17, 2011
- ↑ «Mini-Bilderberger» consult In: 20 Minuten online from January 17, 2011
- ^ Daniel Etter: Rive-Reine-Tagung: At Swissness we found each other with Nestlé Interview in: Schweizer Bauer from January 29, 2012
- ^ Sandro Späth: «Mini-Bilderberger» consult
- ^ Sandro Späth: A rendezvous for bosses, bigwigs and federal councilors in 20 minutes from January 14, 2012
- ↑ WOZ: http://www.woz.ch/artikel/2012/nr02/schweiz/21616.html
- ↑ We Are Change: Rive Reine - a highly undemocratic private meeting ( memento of the original from December 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from January 18, 2012
- ↑ We Are Change: Video with some participants 2012 from January 14, 2012
- ↑ We are change, Thomas: The Rive Reine Conference, the driving force behind the Swiss economy, is it pulling in the right direction? ( Memento of the original from October 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from January 23, 2016
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7HgOkgcI0A
- ↑ Rive-Reine: The secret conference organized by Nestlé starts tomorrow, Auf: Public Eye on Davos on January 16, 2011
- ↑ Hugo Stamm: The Myth of the Secret World Government In: Basler Zeitung of May 24, 2011
- ↑ Oskar Freysinger: Interpellation (11.4206) on the Rive-Reine conference in the Swiss National Council on December 23, 2011
