Chan­cel­lor Merkel would like to keep the ski facil­i­ties closed through­out Europe in win­ter. In the Alpine coun­tries, how­ev­er, there is resis­tance. Aus­tria demands com­pen­sa­tions if the EU rec­om­mends a cor­re­spond­ing step. And Switzer­land per­son­al­ly appeals to the for­mer hol­i­day guest Merkel. The Aus­tri­an gov­ern­ment has announced that it will insist on Euro­pean com­pen­sa­tion if the EU Com­mis­sion rec­om­mends that ski­ing hol­i­days be avoid­ed across Europe. Then one will have to talk about cor­re­spond­ing com­pen­sa­tion pay­ments, said Finance Min­is­ter Ger­not Blümel of the “Welt”. “The cur­rent pro­pos­al means seri­ous eco­nom­ic loss­es for Aus­tria,” said the politician.

Merkel clinched with Kurz Does the ski sea­son have to be can­celed this year?

Based on the rev­enue replace­ment, as it is already being paid out with us, that would be two bil­lion euros. If the EU makes a stip­u­la­tion that the ski areas must remain closed, com­pen­sa­tion pay­ments are expect­ed. That could either be a reduc­tion of the Aus­tri­an mem­ber­ship fee by this amount or more mon­ey from the recon­struc­tion fund. The ÖVP politi­cian accus­es the large EU coun­tries of mak­ing things too easy for them­selves when they push for a ban or a rec­om­men­da­tion from Brus­sels. “Our econ­o­my is much more depen­dent on win­ter tourism than Italy, France or Ger­many,” said the finan­cial politi­cian. In addi­tion, the most impor­tant part of the win­ter sea­son in Italy and France begins in Feb­ru­ary, so they would be much less affect­ed by their own proposal.

“Ms. Merkel, you are safe with us!”

In Switzer­land, too, the request by Chan­cel­lor Angela Merkel to close the ski facil­i­ties across Europe is received with out­rage. Tourists in the Engadin region in the can­ton of Graubün­den, where the CDU politi­cian has been relax­ing for a few days every win­ter and doing cross-coun­try ski­ing, have expressed incom­pre­hen­sion. There, in Pon­tresina, she was also at the end of last year, a few weeks before the coro­na pan­dem­ic hit the world.

No day trip to Aus­tria Söder threat­ens skiers with quarantine

“Ms. Merkel, you are safe with us!” Was the head­line of the tabloid “Blick”. “Ms. Merkel does­n’t have to be afraid,” said hote­lier Thomas Walther from Pon­tresina of the news­pa­per. “Our hygiene con­cepts have proven their worth since the sum­mer. In Berlin, you prob­a­bly live a lot more dan­ger­ous!” Markus Moser, man­ag­ing direc­tor of the Cor­vatsch, Diav­olez­za and Lagalb ski areas, told the news­pa­per that the infa­mous Coro­na infec­tions in the Aus­tri­an ski resort of Ischgl did not hap­pen at the begin­ning of the year dur­ing ski­ing, but at the par­ties. The Swiss gov­ern­ment refus­es to close the ski resorts. The coun­try is try­ing to get the pan­dem­ic under con­trol with less dras­tic mea­sures than oth­er coun­tries. Shops and restau­rants are still open in many places. Above all, the gov­ern­ment relies on per­son­al respon­si­bil­i­ty. How­ev­er, some can­tons have imposed their own lock­downs. How­ev­er, the Swiss infec­tion num­bers are sig­nif­i­cant­ly high­er than in Germany.

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