Youth policy Youth Session 2025 is concerned about education policy and the financial center
The participants in the Youth Session have put forward eleven demands. These include a register on gender-specific homicides, more attractive vocational training, free tests for sexually transmitted infections and condoms for up to 25-year-olds.
09.11.2025, 18:18
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This was announced by the organizers of the Youth Session 2025 on Sunday evening. Over the course of four days, 200 young people aged between 14 and 21 gathered in the Federal Palace. Among other things, they discussed specific topics in working groups and then adopted eleven demands.
In contrast to the Federal Council's draft bill, the youth session proposes that banks' capital requirements for the risks of foreign subsidiaries should be 75 percent. It is also calling for better monitoring of employee rights and a broad-based long-term study on the effects of population growth.
Topics discussed this year included sexual health, digital governance, assisted suicide, the free movement of persons, equal opportunities, education policy, neutrality and the Swiss financial center.
The Prix Jeunesse, which honors special commitment to young people during the Youth Session, was awarded this year to the youth medium Radio Summernight.
Federal Chancellor Viktor Rossi opened the plenary session on Saturday with a few words about his own political career and then took questions from the young people. The plenary debate followed on Sunday. Young people from all language regions stood at the lectern in the National Council and gave speeches in support of their concerns.
The eleven adopted demands were handed over to the President of the National Council and former youth session participant Maja Riniker (FDP/AG) in the last hour of the session on Sunday.
