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Matthias Erne

Zurichois lawyer.

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Endanger "nationalists" and neo-Nazis in Ukraine peace throughout Europe?

by Matthias Erne

Zurich (Switzerland) | 14 December 2018

With the Soviet Union disintegrated 1991 a multi-ethnic state, in which lived about 100 ethnic groups. The political elites in the successor states then faced the problem of creating an independent national identity in order to protect themselves in the long term against reintegration into a (...)

Will there soon be a referendum on freedom of expression in Switzerland?

by Matthias Erne

Zurich (Switzerland) | 23 May 2013

Zurichois lawyer Matthias Erne responds to the controversy that swirled around the views expressed by a celebrated military journalist, Peter Forster. The latter openly took issue with the Federal Council’s questioning of Swiss neutrality. Can a journalist working for the state express a (...)