Politics President of the Council of States Herzog leads Small Chamber through Basel
Council of States group photo at the Tinguely Museum in Basel with Council President Eva Herzog in the middle.
Image: Keystone
The two members of the Council of States Andrea Caroni (FDP) and Franziska Roth (SP), seconded by Mathias Zopfi (Greens), present their work of art created with the help of Tinguely's drawing machine.
Image: Keystone
Council of States group photo at the Tinguely Museum in Basel with Council President Eva Herzog in the middle.
Image: Keystone
The two members of the Council of States Andrea Caroni (FDP) and Franziska Roth (SP), seconded by Mathias Zopfi (Greens), present their work of art created with the help of Tinguely's drawing machine.
Image: Keystone
On Wednesday, Eva Herzog (SP/BS), President of the Council of States, gave her colleagues from the Small Chamber a tour of her home town of Basel. The excursion under the motto "All roads lead through Basel" was attended by 30 members of the Council and three members of the Federal Council.
With the motto "All roads lead through Basel", Herzog addressed the international freight transportation hub of Basel, which is the subject of several current political agenda items in the Federal Assembly, as she told the Keystone-SDA news agency. Specifically, she said, she had lobbied for the trimodal terminal being built at the Rhine port and the revision of the Freight Transport Act - two key proposals for Basel-Stadt.
Accordingly, the excursion began at Basel's Rhine port. From there, the "Wild Maa" tug and push boat took them up the Rhine to the Tinguely Museum. The two councillors Franzisko Roth (SP/SO) and Andrea Caroni (FDP/AR) were persuaded by museum director Roland Wetzel to immortalize themselves with a work of art on Tinguely's drawing machine.
This was followed by a visit to the neighboring pharmaceutical multinational and museum benefactor Roche and an early dinner.
Three members of the national government were also in attendance: Karin Keller-Sutter (FDP) and Elisabeth Baume-Schneider (SP), while Basel Federal Councillor Beat Jans (SP) caused a bit of a stir among the numerous police and security staff present. He arrived a little late in a public pick-up bike and dutifully parked it at the parking area behind the museum, so that the security staff had to hurry after him.
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