Grégoire Barbey

Grégoire Barbey is a freelance journalist. He worked for four years at the newspaper L'Agefi and was also a columnist for La Télé. Passionate about politics, he is very active in Geneva and on social networks. He is editor-in-chief of online news blog affranchi.ch.

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Demographics

‘Switzerland is going to face an unimaginable level of poverty’

This content was published on May 5, 2020 The queues for food in Geneva show that while the health crisis seems to be subsiding, the economic crisis has only just begun.

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Research frontiers

Switzerland offers no lifeboat to US scientists

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A nurse organises samples at the Tengani health center in the Nsanje district of Southern Malawi on November 25, 2014 where Riders for Health's biker Mathias Semba will collect blood samples to be delivered over a hundred kilometres away in Thiolo before being tested at a viral load lab.

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AI and medicine

Can AI bridge the access to healthcare gap in sub-Saharan Africa?

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Swiss Politics

Will Switzerland finally do away with imputed rental-value tax on homeowners?

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Global elections

Does democracy really make the world more peaceful?

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Education

The global private education industry is coming for Switzerland’s expensive schools

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Does your country of residence offer an e-ID?

Switzerland is voting on a new e-ID system. Has your country of residence already introduced one? And does it make your life easier?

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Aug 15, 2025

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What difficulties did you face when renewing your identity documents abroad?

Smooth or complicated: tell us how renewing your identity documents at your Swiss consulate abroad went.

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Sep 12, 2025

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Do you trust that your country can withstand attacks against its democracy?

Democracies are increasingly coming under threat, both from within and without. How do your country’s institutions fare?

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Sep 11, 2025

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