Swiss news from NuseReal: December 2020
Hundreds of British tourists around Verbier 'flee quarantine in Switzerland' — dw — 27 December 2020
Avenir Suisse Swiss Cantonal Freedom Index 2020: the winner is Liechtenstein! — avenir-suisse — 23 December 2020
COVID-19: Switzerland to track British tourists on ski slopes — dw — 22 December 2020
FIFA files criminal complaint against Blatter over museum finance — aljazeera — 22 December 2020
Swiss court rejects Russia's appeal against Olympic doping ban but halves sanction — aljazeera — 17 December 2020
US labels Vietnam and Switzerland currency manipulators: Taiwan, Thailand and India also on watchlist — aljazeera — 17 December 2020
Credit Suisse indicted over alleged ties to Bulgarian mafia — apnews — 17 December 2020
WEF World Competitiveness Report: Few Economies Are Ready for Long-term Prosperity through Improved Public Services, Green Investments and Digitization — wef — 16 December 2020
Countries with advanced digital economies and digital skills have been more successful at keeping their economies running while their citizens worked from home. The Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, Estonia, and the United States have performed well on this measure.
Countries with robust economic safety nets, such as Denmark, Finland, Norway, Austria, Luxembourg and Switzerland, were well placed to support those who could not work. Similarly, countries with strong financial systems such as Finland, the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Singapore, could more easily provide credit to SMEs to prevent insolvency.
Countries that could successfully plan and integrate health, fiscal and social policies have been relatively more successful in mitigating the effects of the crisis, including Singapore, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria and the United Arab Emirates.
Aid crisis: one might have thought that a global pandemic would have led to multilateral cooperation, the exact opposite has taken place — swissinfo — 15 December 2020
Switzerland imposes new Covid-19 curfew to stem rising cases — france24 — 12 December 2020
Switzerland's new clampdown on virus has stoked communal tensions — thelocal — 11 December 2020
Swiss ADC: Climate change adaptation in mountains is crucial — genevasolutions — 11 December 2020
How Alpine Resorts are Coping with Climate Change (LINK)
