Welcome to our press review of events in the United States. Every Wednesday I look at how the Swiss media have reported and reacted to three major stories in the US – in politics, finance and science. Gold is good, climate science is a scam. Those messages coming out of the US this week were unambiguous. Reading between the lines of a speech by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on the transatlantic bond required a bit more analysis, but the Swiss media were unanimously unimpressed. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference at the weekend, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio may have reassured some people about relations between America and Europe, but the Swiss media weren’t buying it. “The relief among the Europeans was almost palpable. Last year US Vice President JD Vance gave them a real roasting and expressed his contempt for the old continent. Now Secretary of State Rubio has reached out his hand for reconciliation,” wrote Swiss public broadcaster SRF on Saturday, saying ...
