Micheline Calmy-Rey
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Micheline Anne-Marie Calmy-Rey is a Swiss politician who served as a Member of the Swiss Federal Council from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Social Democratic Party (SP/PS), she was the head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs during her tenure as a Federal Councillor. She was President of the Swiss Confederation twice, in 2007 and 2011.
Micheline Calmy-Rey
2011 Swiss Federal Council
Calmy-Rey speaks to United States President Barack Obama, along with Turkish and Armenian foreign ministers.
Micheline Calmy-Rey at the feminist Women's march June 14, 2019 in Geneva.
Social Democratic Party of Switzerland
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The Social Democratic Party of Switzerland, or Swiss Socialist Party, is a political party in Switzerland. The SP has had two representatives on the Federal Council since 1960 and received the second-highest number of votes in the 2019 Swiss federal election.
"The new relationship between workers and entrepreneurs", a cartoon of 1896 on bad working conditions in Swiss factories according to the Swiss labour movement in the satirical Zurich magazine Der neue Postillon.