GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Currency swings prompt a type of reporting all their own, and it isn’t the best journalism, stories pushed into an editor’s assumptions. It’s an approach akin to trying to fit a size 14 body into a size 10 dress. So if you read an article like this one in The Drinks Business, […]
Archives for January 2015
Swiss summer 2014 wasn’t summery
BERN, SWITZERLAND – The summer of 2014 didn’t feel much like summer to many people, and it turns out there was a reason: we had one-third fewer summer days than on average for the past 20 years. MeteoSwiss, in its 2014 report, issued Thursday, defines a summer day as one where the temperature rose above […]
Euro MPs pushed on shared airline passenger data
BRUSSELS, SWITZERLAND – Pressure is being put on European members of parliament in Brussels this week, to approve a bill that has been blocked since 2013 that would require airlines to share passenger data with security agencies. The European Voice, an offshoot of the Economist, reports that “European Council President Donald Tusk warned MEPs on […]
News roundup, Lake Geneva region
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Back from holidays! Weekend weather forecast Strong winds from the west have pushed away the damp fog that sat over Lake Geneva earlier in the week. They have also brought precipitation to the mountains and warmer temperature to the plains. A wide swath from the Vaud Alps in the west to Lake […]