Alain Berset ends his 12-month term as Swiss president at the end of 2018. Over the past year, he has been accompanied by the Fribourg photographer Nicolas Brodard, who has captured Berset’s ...

The head of the Council of Europe on Saturday pushed back against a call by nine EU countries to make it easier to expel migrants who commit crime. COE Secretary-General Alain Berset warned that ...

The 100 or so staff at the Council of Europe office in Kyiv are also confronted with the horrors of war on a daily basis, added Berset. “All war crimes committed in Ukraine must be dealt with ...

The Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, in a telephone conversation with Georgian Dream prime minister Irakli Kobakhidze, noted with “great regret” the GD authorities’ decision ...

President of Switzerland Alain Berset spoke to Penn Law School students Sept. 27 about the threats democracy faces in the 21st century. Students gathered in Silverman Hall to hear Berset discuss the ...

The Georgian government has pledged to amend its controversial "foreign agents" law following discussions with the secretary-general of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset. Berset announced at a ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, Alain Berset, will sign an agreement on the establishment of a Special Tribunal to prosecute crimes of aggression ...

Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset warned on Friday that Israeli strikes on Iran could jeopardize regional stability, which has already been hampered by the siege of Gaza and the ...

Berset, a social democrat, is one of Switzerland’s seven federal councillors that constitute the executive arm of the government. The presidency rotates between them annually.

The Council of Europe elected Switzerland's former president Alain Berset as its next secretary general, it said Tuesday evening, delivering a blow to Belgian candidate and EU justice commissioner ...