Visit of Ignazio Cassis, President for Switzerland and Head of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, and the Swiss Federal Council, meeting at CERN

This visit of the Federal Council (the Swiss Confederation’s executive body, made up of seven elected representatives) is an exceptional event. The Council came to CERN for an extramural session, i.e. one that takes place beyond the walls of the Federal Palace in Bern, where it usually meets. This special governmental meeting was followed by an official visit by the President of the Confederation, Ignazio Cassis. He also visited the underground tunnel and Atlas experiment at CERN.