I tēnei tau, i whakanui a Schweizerzeit – he maheni e whakatairanga ana i te motuhake, te pūnaha
ā-motu me te rangatiratanga – i tōna huritau 45.
I uru hoki ki ngā whakanuitanga a Dr Ulrich Schlüer, he Kaikaunihera ā-Motu o mua, i noho ia hei kaiwhakaputa me
te etita matua o te niupepa Schweizerzeit mō te 45 tau.
E mihi ana a Kla.TV ki a Schweizerzeit me tana kaiwhakatū, a Dr Ulrich Schlüer, mō tēnei huritau whakamīharo, ā, e hiahia
ana kia angitu katoa tōna kaiwhakakapi, a Anian Liebrand, i te haere tonu o tēnei whakaputanga hira mō Switzerland!
– Hei whakamutunga, i whai wāhi whakatau te niupepa Huitene a Schweizerzeit me tōna kaiwhakatū kia kore
ai a Huitene e noho hei mema o te Uniana o Europi.
Hei whakarite kia mau tonu tēnei, e hiahia ana mātou kia piki haere tonu te hunga pānui o Schweizerzeit.
Ināianei, whakarongo ki ngā wahanga o te arotake me te tirohanga a Dr Ulrich Schlüer, i whakaputaina i te putanga
whakanui tau, ā, i runga hoki i te paetukutuku o Schweizerzeit:
I te 1 o Poutū-te-rangi 1979, arā, i te 45 tau ki muri, i whakaputaina te putanga tuatahi rawa o Schweizerzeit.
I taua wā, i whai rau rau ngā niupepa motuhake ā-motu, ā-rohe hoki i Switzerland, ā, i
whakanuihia ēnei hei 'ngahere tiaki o te demokarati'.
Kua tapatapahia tēnei ngahere tiaki me te kore atawhai – ā, kua toe noa ko te huinga pōuri o ngā pāpāho o
nāianei, hei toenga noa iho o te kanorau whakaaro o mua.
Ahakoa kua ngaro atu ngā rau rau o ngā niupepa mai i te tau 1979, i ora tonu te Schweizerzeit, ahakoa i tīmata mai
i te tīmatanga, ā, i tū i runga i te whenua tino ngoikore.
He reo i tū, e tū ana hoki, kāore e whakarere mō te rangatiratanga o Switzerland me te herekore whaiaro o ia tangata,
ka kitea – pēnei i tō mātou whakapono i taua wā, ā, e mau tonu ana tō mātou whakapono i ēnei rā – he
nui ngā hoa hei whakarite kia haumaru tonu tōna noho.
E tino mihi ana mātou ki ngā kaipānui katoa o Schweizerzeit mō tēnei.
I taua wā, nā ngā kaupapa whakatau e rua i hoatu he pikinga kaha ki te "Schweizerzeit" rangatahi:
Tuatahi, ko tā rātou ārai i ngā riri o Zurich i ngā tau 1980, nā ngā kaiwhakatū i ngana ki te whakaiti i te
pūnaha ture i whakarite ai i te haumaru me te oranga.
I rahua rātou – nā ngā mahi a Schweizerzeit.
I te tīmatanga o ngā tau 1990, i hiahiatia kia whakatū, kia āwhina hoki ki te whakarite i ngā mahi ārai katoa ki te
whakamātau tuatahi a te karaehe tōrangapū ki te whakauru i a Switzerland ki raro i te pūnaha whakahaere
pokapū o te Hapori o Europi (EC, ināianei ko te EU).
– he pakanga i tonoa ai e ia tōna kaha katoa, ā, kāore anō kia mutu mō ake tonu atu i ēnei rā:
Ahakoa te pōuritanga o te EU e tino nama ana, ā, e kaha haere ana ki te whai āhuatanga mana whakahaere katoa, e kitea tonu ana he
wāhi e hiahiatia ana, inā hoki mō tērā wāhanga o te karaehe tōrangapū ā-rohe e pai ake ana ki te kai i ngā
pūtea kāwanatanga, kaua ki te whakapono ka taea e rātou te angitu motuhake mā ō rātou ake kaha.
Ahakoa e tino mihi ana mātou ki ā mātou kaipānui mō tō rātou ū ki a mātou i ngā tau 45 kua pahure, kua tae a
Schweizerzeit ki tētahi wā e tika ana kia whakarerekē.
Ko te putanga o Schweizerzeit o tēnei rā te mea whakamutunga e kawenga ana ahau hei etita matua.
Kei te tata te tuku whakahaere kua tino whakaritea.
Mai i te putanga e whai ake nei, ka riro ki a Anian Liebrand – kua roa e mōhiotia ana e ā
mātou kaipānui – te tūranga o te etita matua.
Ka noho tonu ahau ki te poari whakatika.
Ka noho tonu ahau e whakapā ana ki ngā kaipānui o te Schweizerzeit mā taku pou "Akzent".
Ahakoa kei raro i te whakahaere hou, ka haere tonu te Schweizerzeit ki te aro ki ngā wero me ngā mahi.
Kei te tino harikoa ahau ki te mahi tahi me te rōpū whakahaere hou kia ārai ai, mutunga iho, i a
Switzerland kia kore ai e whakaitihia e te pūnaha whakahaere o te EU e hiahia ana ki te mana.
Ā, he mea nui kia tiakina te tū-kore-taha o Huitene.
Hei whāinga mō tēnei, me whakahokia te Ope Taua o Switzerland kua tino warewarehia e ngā hara ki tētahi āhua e taea ai
e ia te tino whakarite i te haumarutanga o tō tātou whenua.
Hei whakamutunga, me whakatinana ngā tikanga whaihua hei aukati i te urunga nui o ngā manene kāore i
whakahaerehia, kua roa e tūtohutia ana e te niupepa Schweizerzeit, i mua i tōna whakangaro i tō tātou whenua.
Hei whāinga mō tēnei, me tino whakaiti i te huarahi tuku noa o te taha mauī, kākāriki-rīberali.
E ū ana mātou ki tēnei kaupapa – ahakoa kei raro i te whakahaere hou a Schweizerzeit, ā, me te tautoko tonu a ā mātou kaipānui,
ki a rātou e hiahia ana ahau ki te tuku i aku mihi ngākau nui!
Ulrich Schlüer