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A coffee with Guy Parmelin

This first meeting is a summit: at 1481 meters above sea level, in the Grison Mulegns village.The President of the Confederation and the President of UBS Switzerland, Sabine Keller-Busse, chat with our readers and readers.The themes?Telework, digitization and biden-subuttin.

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Mulegns, formerly, served as a relay for the diligence which attacked the Col du Julier.This is where we were changing the team.Nowadays, the Grison village has only 16 inhabitants.The legendary white villa was dismissed a few meters from the road after a spectacular operation and now serves as a coffee-confiserie.At the edge of the village, we will witness a world first: in the summer of 2022, a 29 -meter tower will become the highest building ever built by robots using a 3D printer.

Tuesday, 9 am: the president of the Confederation, Guy Parmelin, 61, the head of UBS Switzerland, Sabine Keller-Busse, 55, the future regional director of UBS for Eastern Switzerland, Gian Reto Staub, 44 years old, and, among the readership of the Schweizer Illustrator, Milena Keller, 26, teacher at Wil (SG), his mother, Eliane Keller, 54, and Martin Rüfenacht, 50, electrician engineer from Horriwil (SO), S'Install in the cafe.

Meet personalities for a "corner coffee" are you interested?So do not hesitate and register for our operation "Cornement Café"- Mr. President, where the atmosphere is the most tense, with Biden and Putin on June 16 or at this coffee table?- Guy Parmelin: Stress is just as large (it smiles).Contact with citizens is obviously the basis of political work.During such meetings, I never know what I am talking about.While with Biden and Putin the essential was scheduled.The real difference is that in Geneva it took thousands of people to prepare the event, while only 16 people live here.- Sabine Keller-Busse: It is a great honor that Switzerland can regularly serve as a platform for international diplomacy.This is a good basis for what matters to our country: good international political and economic relations.The Geneva Summit surely contributes to the Swiss economic place.

- After the summit, we had the impression that the only real winners were us, the Swiss.- Guy Parmelin: It was important above all that the two great powers in possession of an atomic arsenal are physically found at the same table.There are currently a lot of conflict households: Belarus, Ukraine, Pays Balttes, the debate on NATO ... Switzerland has provided an impeccable organization, especially in terms of security.Everything has been planned by the minute.The pressure was great, we could not allow ourselves the slightest error.And Switzerland had thirty to forty minutes of separate interviews with the two major powers.

>> Lire également: Guy Parmelin, le président qui fait du bien- Comment se prépare-t-on à un tel événement?- Pas avec du yoga, je suis trop rouillé pour ça (il rit).Such a summit is a unique opportunity: you have to be well awake and concentrated and it is strictly necessary to respect the protocol.But all this also applies to a dialogue with citizens at a coffee table.- What effect did the two most powerful men on the planet produce on you?- Both were very well prepared.But they have completely different styles.Biden, for example, was amazed by the landscape.- This is why you spoke with him of Swiss paradise but not Swiss tax haven.- Exact.But I told him that we are resuming the directives of the OECD.The fact remains that there are things that cannot be expected: when a limousine has arrived and I wanted to greet Putin, it is Sergei Lavrov, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, who came out of it.- Sabine Keller-Busse: (she laughs.) But for the rest, the timing was perfect.In a few weeks, from nothing, a fantastic organization was set up.- Milena Keller: Madame Keller-Busse, I would have a personal question.I am in the process of establishing myself in my professional life.Now I sometimes feel doubts.Have you never had the feeling that as a woman you had to do more than a man?-Sabine Keller-Busse: I too have moments of doubt.Everyone has.But I never had the impression that I had to do more than a man.What matters is having self -confidence.It’s a great experience to overcome your doubts, it's like climbing a mountain.But we need a good context that stimulates us occasionally.It goes without saying that a little healthy ambition is useful.And when we want to reach something, we must create networks that not only strengthen us, but also provide us with sincere feedback.- Milena Keller: As a teacher, I sometimes wonder how to get there to advance disadvantaged children.- Sabine Keller-Busse: everything goes through enthusiasm.Children are open and curious.I consider it important to awaken and encourage the passion of children.I have always tried to do things with heart.I see that today's schoolchildren are already very advanced.My children received pulses in primary school already.For example, they visited the Kunsthaus of Zurich with the school and studied Miró.Of my time, it was not done.

How did the TV transition go at the start of the pandemic?- Milena Keller: at the beginning, we had practically no digital instruments.But then it went very quickly.We have created digital platforms and have fully transferred education there.But the problem was that at home a lot of children had no more structures.- Sabine Keller-Busse: Nowadays, children are computer pros.And we have all become more digital over the pandemic.We saw grandparents tell stories to their grandchildren via Zoom.- Guy Parmelin: The acceleration of digitization has many advantages that will remain acquired.For example, in the past we always carried out preparatory interviews for the session of the Federal Council involved on Monday.Now it's digital.But you also have to find the right balance.Many people want to go back to the office, I can understand it.Because to make the right decisions, you sometimes have to drink coffee together.- Sabine Keller-Busse: in good Swiss, we choose the happy medium.There are collaborators who wish to return to the full -time office and others who would like to continue working part -time at home.On the principle, we can say that telework works very well as long as employees know each other.We will offer, where it is possible, an additional flexibility between presence at the office and teleworking.But at the same time we will have to make sure that employees regularly find themselves as a team at the office to exchange, because it is imperative for a good corporate culture.So that the spaces traditionally devoted to offices will turn into meeting zones.- Gian Reto Staub: There have always been changes.I remember the mechanical typewriter of my first job.Today is a museum piece.In banking activity, a physical presence is important, we remain very human.Many customers intend to personally meet their advisor.We must feel when it takes personal contact.You need confidence but also digital Bouton press processes.The modern employee is sort of hybrid.

- Martin Rüfenacht: During the health crisis, the doctor on the screen suddenly took value.And the remote banking advisor too.But I hope that, next time, we don't need a crisis for that.- Gian Reto Staub: If you don't want scanning to catch up with you, you have to prepare.In Mulegns, this process may not be manifested as quickly as in Zurich, but it manifests itself anyway.- Sabine Keller-Busse: I confirm.If we had undertaken to invest in digital only in the arrival of the pandemic, we would not have as well under control of the crisis, neither as a country, nor as a bank.- Eliane Keller, the mother: our children grew up with computer science, they know the technical processes by heart.But we, the oldest, at the beginning, we were exceeded.My father suffers from no longer being able to go once a week at the bank's counter.And, as a district judge, I know how essential human contact is: when one is the recipient of a sentence, it must be pronounced by a person in the flesh.- Milena Keller: Mr. President, was the pandemic for people the opportunity to take an interest in politics?- Guy Parmelin: Yes.But politics requires patience and perseverance.It is often the work of Hercules.I personally feel that many more people are now interested in it.My nephews and nieces sometimes appeal to me unexpectedly to ask me how I see this or that file.Political conscience was sharpened during the pandemic.It's good.If you don't take care of politics, it is politics that will take care of you.- Milena Keller: And how were things going on the Federal Council during the health crisis?- Guy Parmelin: last year was a very difficult period.We had to decide quickly.It is precisely in such moments that it is important to be physically present.Because we understand each other better when we observe the body language of the interlocutor.So that within the Federal Council we even got closer.We always want to decide as a team.Of course there are necessarily criticism.As a politician, we have to get used to it, otherwise we were wrong.- Milena Keller: Mr. President, will the campaigns for elections and votes now go through digital and social networks?- Guy Parmelin: at most partly.Direct contact with citizens remains irreplaceable.I remember a debate in a town hall, the time I was a national councilor, when everyone was against me.At the end of the debate, 18 people told me that I knew how to convince them.Suffice to say 18 new votes.It is only by arguing in person that we can convince people.

"Graubünden are part of the flagship cantons"

On the sidelines of Operation Café du Coin, UBS analysts shed light on the economic situation of each canton where we will debate.

The economic competitiveness of the Canton of Graubünden is rather lower than the average of other cantons.Given its situation (a large part of the surface is occupied by the Alps), dynamic companies with solid perspectives are underrepresented on the whole.Nevertheless, one cannot treat the whole canton in the same way: it is necessary to take into account important regional disparities in the largest canton in Switzerland in terms of area.The Coire region, for example, can follow the Swiss average in terms of competitiveness thanks to its good motorway and rail links.Competitiveness, however, is due not only to geographic location and infrastructure, but it also takes on a political dimension.On this point, the Graubünden master and pass in front of certain urban cantons: they excel in their responsible financial policy, which earns them a debt lower than the average.Regarding the labor market too, the Graubünden are among the flagship cantons, with a rather low unemployment rate and few long -term unemployed.

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