Podcasts about Montenegro

No Sob Escuta especial legislativas, a porta-voz do PAN admite ser difícil fazer acordo com o Governo de Luís Montenegro, mas não descarta negociar com PS e PSD. É contra aumento de gastos na Defesa.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Eu montenegrizo, tu montenegrizas, eles montenegrizam. Montenegro, que já protagonizava o hino da AD, promoveu-se agora a protagonista também por outra via, a criar a palavra “montenegrização”. A personalização da campanha laranja (o CDS aqui não risca nada) vai de vento em popa. Os lexicógrafos que ponham mãos ao trabalho, porque num futuro dicionário da Academia não poderá falar o neologismo. Na sequência disto, também o líder socialista quis dar mostras de imaginação verbal acusando de imediato Montenegro de “venturização”. O que ninguém esperava era que Paulo Raimundo também entrasse do campeonato vocabular com uma poderosa acusação a Ventura, dizendo que ele não é capaz de mais do que o “nheca-nheca”. Enquanto isso, foi anunciada uma averiguação judicial preventiva a um negócio imobiliário de Pedro Nuno Santos. O líder do PS viu-se obrigado a um striptease em público das suas contas pessoais - tem um pai rico, é certo, mas ter pai rico ainda não é crime. Quem já faz contas ao momento pós-eleitoral é Miguel Relvas. O antigo braço direito de Passos Coelho acha que o “não é não” de Montenegro ao Chega é uma “birra”. Agora pensem.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As diferenças entre as averiguações preventivas ao líder do PS e ao PM. Está a justiça a interferir na política? E contas às preferências de Montenegro, entre entretenimento e debates pré-eleitorais. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Einar har tatt påskeferie, men ikke uten å gi et lite påskeegg av en godbit til dere. Og med det mener man selvsagt at man tar alt det gamle, tørre, lengst forbi "best før"-dato godteriet man har i skapet på hytta og tømmer det i egget, og vipps, så har man et splitter nytt påskeegg i år og. Nyt kavalkaden med JØSS fra Nederland, Montenegro, Kasakhstan, Brasil og Qatar. Sjekk gjerne ut noen nye landepisoder på podimo.com/198land mens du er i gang, så sees vi på andre siden av høytiden. Produsert av Martin Oftedal, PLAN-B Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Catarina Martins considera uma loucura a averiguação prévia a Pedro Nuno Santos ter vindo a público. Paulo Núncio critica PNS por não ter tido cuidado a comentar a averiguação prévia a Montenegro.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pedro Nuno é bandido ou não tem nada a esconder? Pedro Nuno Santos aproveita o seu caso para mandar indiretas a Luís Montenegro, mas irá o líder do PSD seguir o conselho do opositor?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Seguimos analizando las canciones de Eurovisión 2025 Hoy hablamos de:Australia Go-Jo «Milkshake Man»Montenegro Nina Žižić «Dobrodošli»Irlanda Emmy «Laika Party»Letonia Tautumeitas «Bur man laimi»Armenia Parg «Survivor»¿Qué os parecen estas canciones de 2025? Te leemos

God can't give you a greater gift.     “...A freshly plucked olive leaf … in her mouth.”   - Genesis 8:11 (NKJV) 

Music journalist Fred Bronson returns to start our conversations about Eurovision 2025 Semi-Final 2. We discuss Montenegro, Luxembourg, Greece, Czechia, and Ireland, plus some delightful stories about long distance friendships and phone calls. Fred Bronson Fred Bronson is the author of seven books: Rockin' the Kremlin with David Junk, The Jacksons Legacy (with the Jacksons), Dick Clark's American Bandstand (with Dick Clark), The Sound of Music Family Scrapbook, The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits and The Billboard Book of Number One Rhythm & Blues Hits (with Adam White). Bronson has written the annual television specials The American Music Awards and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. His other credits include two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and an episode of the animated Star Trek series. For SiriusXM Radio, he has interviewed Paul McCartney, Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus from ABBA and created "Smokey's Place," a series for Smokey Robinson's Smokey's Soul Town channel where the legendary artist recalls his Motown memories and plays Motown favorites. He is a long-term contributor to Billboard, covering the Eurovision Song Contest and American Idol among many other topics. Polyethylene Summary Montenegro - Nina Žižić - "Dobrodošli" (3:48) Luxembourg - Laura Thorn - "La Poupée Monte Le Son" (10:54) Greece - Klavdia - "Asteromata" (22:34) Czechia - ADONXS - "Kiss Kiss Goodbye" (28:37) Ireland - EMMY - "Laika Party" (34:41) Final Thoughts (41:38) Subscribe The EuroWhat? Podcast is available wherever you get your podcasts. Find your podcast app to subscribe here (https://www.eurowhat.com/subscribe). Comments, questions, and episode topic suggestions are always welcome. You can shoot us an email (mailto:eurowhatpodcast@gmail.com) or reach out on Bluesky @eurowhat.bsky.social (https://bsky.app/profile/eurowhat.bsky.social). Basel 2025 Keep up with Eurovision selection season on our Basel 2025 page (https://www.eurowhat.com/2025-basel)! We have a calendar with links to livestreams, details about entries as their selected, plus our Spotify playlists with every song we can find that is trying to get the Eurovision stage. Join the EuroWhat AV Club! If you would like to help financially support the show, we are hosting the EuroWhat AV Club over on Patreon! We have a slew of bonus episodes with deep dives on Eurovision-adjacent topics. Special Guest: Fred Bronson.

Lídia Pereira (AD) considera que "não há grande distância" entre os dois. Mariana Leitão (IL) acusa Montenegro de ter apresentado um "orçamento socialista". Ambas admitem entendimento no pós-eleições.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Steve H. Hanke is a Senior Fellow, Contributing Editor of The Independent Review, and a Member of the Board of Advisors at the Independent Institute. Hanke is professor of applied economics and founder and co-director of the Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health, and the Study of Business Enterprise at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, senior adviser at the Renmin University of China's International Monetary Research Institute in Beijing, and a special counselor to the Center for Financial Stability in New York. Hanke is also a contributing editor at Central Banking in London and a contributor at National Review. In addition, Hanke is a member of the Charter Council of the Society for Economic Measurement.In the past, Hanke taught economics at the Colorado School of Mines and at the University of California, Berkeley. He served as a member of the Governor's Council of Economic Advisers in Maryland in 1976–77, as a senior economist on President Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers in 1981–82, and as a senior adviser to the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress in 1984–88. Hanke served as a state counselor to both the Republic of Lithuania in 1994–96 and the Republic of Montenegro in 1999–2003. He was also an adviser to the presidents of Bulgaria in 1997–2002, Venezuela in 1995–96, and Indonesia in 1998. He played an important role in establishing new currency regimes in Argentina, Estonia, Bulgaria, Bosnia‐Herzegovina, Ecuador, Lithuania, and Montenegro. Hanke has also held senior appointments in the governments of many other countries, including Albania, Kazakhstan, the United Arab Emirates, and Yugoslavia.

O hino da AD pede que “deixem o Luís trabalhar”, e Luís -- Montenegro – fez isso mesmo: apresentou o seu programa, prometendo não poupar nem voltar aos défices. Nesta Comissão Política não deixamos escapar nada, nem as notícias que incomodam. Ouça aqui o novo episódio do podcast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pedro Fidalgo Marques acusa o primeiro-ministro de enviar um substituto para debater com o PAN. João Almeida desvaloriza o tema e considera que o presidente do CDS-PP tem direito a ir a debate.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

O hino da AD pede que deixem Luís trabalhar, o primeiro ministro só ainda não decidiu bem em que área o quer fazer. Montenegro só não quer trabalhar quando tem de explicar finanças aos portugueses.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A propaganda do "Deixem o Luís trabalhar" - programa eleitoral da AD e medidas para empresas, a dificuldade de Rui Rocha com Javier Milei, candidatos-comentadores e EUA a subir a parada nas tarifas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Foi ministro de vários governos socialistas e esteve na cadeira da presidência da Assembleia da República. Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues afirma temer que “a única solução” governativa seja um bloco central dirigido pelo PS ou PSD. Sobre o primeiro-ministro Montenegro, considera que tem uma “cultura de chico-espertismo” e garante que não voltará à política. Ouçam-no na primeira parte da conversa com Bernardo MendonçaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mariana Vieira da Silva acusa Montenegro de ignorar os avisos do Banco de Portugal sobre o défice no próximo ano. Já Alexandre Poço diz que o atual executivo está a ser realista quanto ao défice.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In diesem Format stellen die Reiseredakteure von MOTORRAD und RIDE ihre persönlichen Favoriten und Lieblingsregionen vor. Nach der Pilotfolge (Kurvendiskussion #81) setzen Markus Biebricher, Thorsten Dentges und Ferdinand Heinrich-Steige Tipps die Reise-Tipps fort. Dieses Mal unter dem Motto: „Klein, aber fein“. Wir empfehlen Länder und Regionen, die gerne mal übersehen werden, aber eigentlich genügend Argumente für ausgiebige Motorradtouren liefern. Wer sich überraschen lassen möchte, sollte hier nicht weiterlesen.

Foi digno de um filme de espiões, uma adaptação de um romance de John Le Carré em que o agente Raimundo passa um dossiê ao seu arqui-inimigo Conde de Montenegro contendo… propaganda política.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Illini Inquirer's Jeremy Werner and Derek Piper discuss Montenegro forward David Mirkovic committing to Illinois basketball. The guys discuss what he brings to the Illini's Balkan-flavored frontcourt and what the strengths and weaknesses are of the Illini's front line. The guys then discuss potential backcourt options, including Wyoming's Malik Moore, North Carolina's Ian Jackson and Italy's Dame Sarr, as well as Will Riley's latest NBA Draft projection. Follow the Illini Inquirer Podcast on: Apple: https://apple.co/3oMt0NP Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2Xan2L8  Other: https://bit.ly/36gn7Ct   Go VIP for 50% OFF: https://tinyurl.com/ymnzkebb  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

EUA sobem a parada contra China e recusam proposta da UE. É preciso pagar na mesma moeda ou é contraproducente? E ainda o caso Spinumviva nos debates e na campanha: Montenegro ainda sai a ganhar?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

O PS, incapacitado pela agenda de fazer uns Estado Gerais alargados, fechou a semana de aprovação de listas de candidatos a deputados, com a apresentação do programa eleitoral. O Governo e o PSD responderam com acusações de “desespero” e comparações com José Sócrates. O ex-primeiro-ministro parece ser a arma de arremesso desta pré-campanha: se na semana passada, havia quem fizesse comparações de Montenegro com Sócrates, agora é o PSD a atirar o ex-primeiro-ministro contra Pedro Nuno Santos. O programa do PS e a resposta da AD são um dos temas da Comissão Política desta semana.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

João Oliveira (CDU) acusa o PM de não prestar esclarecimentos e diz que a AD vai fazer campanha de "vitimização". Alexandre Poço (PSD) desafia a oposição a fazer perguntas concretas a Montenegro.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Luís Capoulas Santos diz que a oposição não vai largar tema da empresa da família de Montenegro e que a opinião pública não está esclarecida. Já Duarte Marques considera que o assunto está resolvido.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Before taking to the stage at Amsterdam's Eurovision in Concert, Angus spoke with Nina Žižić for an interview. Nina Žižić is representing Montenegro at Eurovision 2025 with her entry “Dobrodošli” Angus and Nina spoke about her return to the contest after twelve years, as well as her experience working alongside Dobrodošli’s producer Darko Dimitrov and […] The post TEP Interviews: Nina Žižić (Montenegro 2025) at Eurovision in Concert 2025 appeared first on That Eurovision Site.

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This week I discuss my 30th birthday trip in Montenegro at the 5 star Dukley Hotel & Resort and much more. #LOUDITPodcast is hosted by Nnedinso. Tune in every Monday for some funny stories and girl talk to cheer up your Monday blues. From life experiences to wild stories and current media, no topic is off limits. Let's LOUD IT and talk some rubbish! Twitter: @Nneddy121 and YouTube: ItsNnedinso

EUA provocam suicídio económico e político do Ocidente? E como deve a UE reagir? E ainda as listas do PS, o "lacaio" de Montenegro nos debates, o líder espiritual do CES e a violência obstétrica.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The craziness that is Eurovision 2025 does not stop this week! For this preview show, we welcome our friend Dude Points to discuss this year’s entries from Montenegro, Albania, Norway, […]

Montenegro comprou fato na Vinted.

Luís Montenegro vence em competência, em honestidade e em confiança. E é mais capaz de resolver os problemas do país do que o líder do PS. Sondagem da Católica para a RTP em análise e ainda vamos à guerra das tarifas.

Em entrevista ao Observador, António Cunha Vaz, especialista em comunicação e consultor regular do PSD, admite que Montenegro cometeu erros na gestão de crise. Ainda assim, não admite outro cenário que não a vitória da AD.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Governo de Luís Montenegro tomou posse faz hoje um ano. Não chegou verdadeiramente a aquecer o lugar, o que não evita o balanço sobre o que correu melhor, o que correu pior e andou assim-assim.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Faz hoje 1 ano que o Governo de Montenegro - agora transformado em ativo eleitoral - tomou posse. 365 dias depois, fica a questão: mesmo só tendo aquecido o lugar, poderia o Executivo ter feito mais?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Neste episódio o Doutor comenta as recentes declarações do Dr. Boaventura Sousa Santos sobre piropos, faz um balanço dos novos casos de alegada corrupção do Dr. Montenegro (alguém que está apenas a lutar pelo futuro dos filhos, analisa as características do menino que é líder do movimento reconquista (antes de reconquistar o país talvez devesse começar por reconquistar o controlo do seu esfíncter). Fala ainda sobre o regresso do infame podcast de invejosos "Livros da Piça."Bilhetes para "Um Salazar Em Cada Esquina": https://linktr.ee/odoutorjcdCom o apoio da cockburn's: https://www.instagram.com/cockburns_port/Segmento extra em: https://www.patreon.com/jcdireitaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/jovemconservadordedireitaLivros da piça: https://www.instagram.com/livrosdapica

We're joined by comedian, actor, and writer Edson Montenegro! Follow them here..Subscribe to our Youtube!Join Nico's mailing list for 2025 tour datesLeave Listener Questions for next Boys Club AMAFind us on Instagram at @boysclubcomedy and @nicocarney @conorjanda

Luís Montenegro não parece ter sido afetado pela queda do Governo ou pelo caso Spinumviva: as sondagens dão-lhe vitória, apesar do grande número de indecisos. Miguel Santos Carrapatoso é o convidado.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We react to the Semi-Final 2 running order for Eurovision 2025. Producers have Australia's Go-Jo opening the show and Finland's Erika Vikman closing it. We ask why Montenegro is in the death slot (second position); suggest that producers wanted to spread out the riskqué sexy acts (Australia, Malta, and Finland), ; and suggest Israel benefits hugely from performing between Luxembourg and Germany.   Watch our reaction on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ANSBdl6845s?si=6cB2DOO1GBECXB6L 1.⁠ ⁠

Montenegro tenta agradar aos indecisos.

In this episode, Matt interviews Paulo from Hawk Fences in Atlanta Georgia. Paulo is a past coaching client of Matt's and over the last few years he has built a 7 figure fence installation company. He shares his story of being born in Columbia, moving to the United States, working at BlackRock out of college, and starting a fence installation company from nothing.

For a limited time, upgrade to ‘The Storm's' paid tier for $5 per month or $55 per year. You'll also receive a free year of Slopes Premium, a $29.99 value - valid for annual subscriptions only. Monthly subscriptions do not qualify for free Slopes promotion. Valid for new subscriptions only.WhoIain Martin, Host of The Ski PodcastRecorded onJanuary 30, 2025About The Ski PodcastFrom the show's website:Want to [know] more about the world of skiing? The Ski Podcast is a UK-based podcast hosted by Iain Martin.With different guests every episode, we cover all aspects of skiing and snowboarding from resorts to racing, Ski Sunday to slush.In 2021, we were voted ‘Best Wintersports Podcast‘ in the Sports Podcast Awards. In 2023, we were shortlisted as ‘Best Broadcast Programme' in the Travel Media Awards.Why I interviewed himWe did a swap. Iain hosted me on his show in January (I also hosted Iain in January, but since The Storm sometimes moves at the pace of mammal gestation, here we are at the end of March; Martin published our episode the day after we recorded it).But that's OK (according to me), because our conversation is evergreen. Martin is embedded in EuroSki the same way that I cycle around U.S. AmeriSki. That we wander from similarly improbable non-ski outposts – Brighton, England and NYC – is a funny coincidence. But what interested me most about a potential podcast conversation is the Encyclopedia EuroSkiTannica stored in Martin's brain.I don't understand skiing in Europe. It is too big, too rambling, too interconnected, too above-treeline, too transit-oriented, too affordable, too absent the Brobot ‘tude that poisons so much of the American ski experience. The fact that some French idiot is facing potential jail time for launching a snowball into a random grandfather's skull (filming the act and posting it on TikTok, of course) only underscores my point: in America, we would cancel the grandfather for not respecting the struggle so obvious in the boy's act of disobedience. In a weird twist for a ski writer, I am much more familiar with summer Europe than winter Europe. I've skied the continent a couple of times, but warm-weather cross-continental EuroTreks by train and by car have occupied months of my life. When I try to understand EuroSki, my brain short-circuits. I tease the Euros because each European ski area seems to contain between two and 27 distinct ski areas, because the trail markings are the wrong color, because they speak in the strange code of the “km” and “cm” - but I'm really making fun of myself for Not Getting It. Martin gets it. And he good-naturedly walks me through a series of questions that follow this same basic pattern: “In America, we charge $109 for a hamburger that tastes like it's been pulled out of a shipping container that went overboard in 1944. But I hear you have good and cheap food in Europe – true?” I don't mind sounding like a d*****s if the result is good information for all of us, and thankfully I achieved both of those things on this podcast.What we talked aboutThe European winter so far; how a UK-based skier moves back and forth to the Alps; easy car-free travel from the U.S. directly to Alps ski areas; is ski traffic a thing in Europe?; EuroSki 101; what does “ski area” mean in Europe; Euro snow pockets; climate change realities versus media narratives in Europe; what to make of ski areas closing around the Alps; snowmaking in Europe; comparing the Euro stereotype of the leisurely skier to reality; an aging skier population; Euro liftline queuing etiquette and how it mirrors a nation's driving culture; “the idea that you wouldn't bring the bar down is completely alien to me; I mean everybody brings the bar down on the chairlift”; why an Epic or Ikon Pass may not be your best option to ski in Europe; why lift ticket prices are so much cheaper in Europe than in the U.S.; Most consumers “are not even aware” that Vail has started purchasing Swiss resorts; ownership structure at Euro resorts; Vail to buy Verbier?; multimountain pass options in Europe; are Euros buying Epic and Ikon to ski locally or to travel to North America?; must-ski European ski areas; Euro ski-guide culture; and quirky ski areas.What I got wrongWe discussed Epic Pass' lodging requirement for Verbier, which is in effect for this winter, but which Vail removed for the 2025-26 ski season.Why now was a good time for this interviewI present to you, again, the EuroSki Chart – a list of all 26 European ski areas that have aligned themselves with a U.S.-based multi-mountain pass:The large majority of these have joined Ski NATO (a joke, not a political take Brah), in the past five years. And while purchasing a U.S. megapass is not necessary to access EuroHills in the same way it is to ski the Rockies – doing so may, in fact, be counterproductive – just the notion of having access to these Connecticut-sized ski areas via a pass that you're buying anyway is enough to get people considering a flight east for their turns.And you know what? They should. At this point, a mass abandonment of the Mountain West by the tourists that sustain it is the only thing that may drive the region to seriously reconsider the robbery-by-you-showed-up-here-all-stupid lift ticket prices, car-centric transit infrastructure, and sclerotic building policies that are making American mountain towns impossibly expensive and inconvenient to live in or to visit. In many cases, a EuroSkiTrip costs far less than an AmeriSki trip - especially if you're not the sort to buy a ski pass in March 2025 so that you can ski in February 2026. And though the flights will generally cost more, the logistics of airport-to-ski-resort-and-back generally make more sense. In Europe they have trains. In Europe those trains stop in villages where you can walk to your hotel and then walk to the lifts the next morning. In Europe you can walk up to the ticket window and trade a block of cheese for a lift ticket. In Europe they put the bar down. In Europe a sandwich, brownie, and a Coke doesn't cost $152. And while you can spend $152 on a EuroLunch, it probably means that you drank seven liters of wine and will need a sled evac to the village.“Oh so why don't you just go live there then if it's so perfect?”Shut up, Reductive Argument Bro. Everyplace is great and also sucks in its own special way. I'm just throwing around contrasts.There are plenty of things I don't like about EuroSki: the emphasis on pistes, the emphasis on trams, the often curt and indifferent employees, the “injury insurance” that would require a special session of the European Union to pay out a claim. And the lack of trees. Especially the lack of trees. But more families are opting for a week in Europe over the $25,000 Experience of a Lifetime in the American West, and I totally understand why.A quote often attributed to Winston Churchill reads, “You can always trust the Americans to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all the alternatives.” Unfortunately, it appears to be apocryphal. But I wish it wasn't. Because it's true. And I do think we'll eventually figure out that there is a continent-wide case study in how to retrofit our mountain towns for a more cost- and transit-accessible version of lift-served skiing. But it's gonna take a while.Podcast NotesOn U.S. ski areas opening this winter that haven't done so “in a long time”A strong snow year has allowed at least 11 U.S. ski areas to open after missing one or several winters, including:* Cloudmont, Alabama (yes I'm serious)* Pinnacle, Maine* Covington and Sault Seal, ropetows outfit in Michigan's Upper Peninsula* Norway Mountain, Michigan – resurrected by new owner after multi-year closure* Tower Mountain, a ropetow bump in Michigan's Lower Peninsula* Bear Paw, Montana* Hatley Pointe, North Carolina opened under new ownership, who took last year off to gut-renovate the hill* Warner Canyon, Oregon, an all-natural-snow, volunteer-run outfit, opened in December after a poor 2023-24 snow year.* Bellows Falls ski tow, a molehill run by the Rockingham Recreation in Vermont, opened for the first time in five years after a series of snowy weeks across New England* Lyndon Outing Club, another volunteer-run ropetow operation in Vermont, sat out last winter with low snow but opened this yearOn the “subway map” of transit-accessible Euro skiingI mean this is just incredible:The map lives on Martin's Ski Flight Free site, which encourages skiers to reduce their carbon footprints. I am not good at doing this, largely because such a notion is a fantasy in America as presently constructed.But just imagine a similar system in America. The nation is huge, of course, and we're not building a functional transcontinental passenger railroad overnight (or maybe ever). But there are several areas of regional density where such networks could, at a minimum, connect airports or city centers with destination ski areas, including:* Reno Airport (from the east), and the San Francisco Bay area (to the west) to the ring of more than a dozen Tahoe resorts (or at least stops at lake- or interstate-adjacent Sugar Bowl, Palisades, Homewood, Northstar, Mt. Rose, Diamond Peak, and Heavenly)* Denver Union Station and Denver airport to Loveland, Keystone, Breck, Copper, Vail, Beaver Creek, and - a stretch - Aspen and Steamboat, with bus connections to A-Basin, Ski Cooper, and Sunlight* SLC airport east to Snowbird, Alta, Solitude, Brighton, Park City, and Deer Valley, and north to Snowbasin and Powder Mountain* Penn Station in Manhattan up along Vermont's Green Mountain Spine: Mount Snow, Stratton, Bromley, Killington, Pico, Sugarbush, Mad River Glen, Bolton Valley, Stowe, Smugglers' Notch, Jay Peak, with bus connections to Magic and Middlebury Snowbowl* Boston up the I-93 corridor: Tenney, Waterville Valley, Loon, Cannon, and Bretton Woods, with a spur to Conway and Cranmore, Attitash, Wildcat, and Sunday River; bus connections to Black New Hampshire, Sunapee, Gunstock, Ragged, and Mount AbramYes, there's the train from Denver to Winter Park (and ambitions to extend the line to Steamboat), which is terrific, but placing that itsy-bitsy spur next to the EuroSystem and saying “look at our neato train” is like a toddler flexing his toy jet to the pilots as he boards a 757. And they smile and say, “Whoa there, Shooter! Now have a seat while we burn off 4,000 gallons of jet fuel accelerating this f****r to 500 miles per hour.”On the number of ski areas in EuropeI've detailed how difficult it is to itemize the 500-ish active ski areas in America, but the task is nearly incomprehensible in Europe, which has as many as eight times the number of ski areas. Here are a few estimates:* Skiresort.info counts 3,949 ski areas (as of today; the number changes daily) in Europe: list | map* Wikipedia doesn't provide a number, but it does have a very long list* Statista counts a bit more than 2,200, but their list excludes most of Eastern EuropeOn Euro non-ski media and climate change catastropheOf these countless European ski areas, a few shutter or threaten to each year. The resulting media cycle is predictable and dumb. In The Snow concisely summarizes how this pattern unfolds by analyzing coverage of the recent near loss of L'Alpe du Grand Serre, France (emphasis mine):A ski resort that few people outside its local vicinity had ever heard of was the latest to make headlines around the world a month ago as it announced it was going to cease ski operations.‘French ski resort in Alps shuts due to shortage of snow' reported The Independent, ‘Another European ski resort is closing due to lack of snow' said Time Out, The Mirror went for ”Devastation” as another European ski resort closes due to vanishing snow‘ whilst The Guardian did a deeper dive with, ‘Fears for future of ski tourism as resorts adapt to thawing snow season.' The story also appeared in dozens more publications around the world.The only problem is that the ski area in question, L'Alpe du Grand Serre, has decided it isn't closing its ski area after all, at least not this winter.Instead, after the news of the closure threat was publicised, the French government announced financial support, as did the local municipality of La Morte, and a number of major players in the ski industry. In addition, a public crowdfunding campaign raised almost €200,000, prompting the officials who made the original closure decision to reconsider. Things will now be reassessed in a year's time.There has not been the same global media coverage of the news that L'Alpe du Grand Serre isn't closing after all.It's not the first resort where money has been found to keep slopes open after widespread publicity of a closure threat. La Chapelle d'Abondance was apparently on the rocks in 2020 but will be fully open this winter and similarly Austria's Heiligenblut which was said to be at risk of permanently closure in the summer will be open as normal.Of course, ski areas do permanently close, just like any business, and climate change is making the multiple challenges that smaller, lower ski areas face, even more difficult. But in the near-term bigger problems are often things like justifying spends on essential equipment upgrades, rapidly increasing power costs and changing consumer habits that are the bigger problems right now. The latter apparently exacerbated by media stories implying that ski holidays are under severe threat by climate change.These increasingly frequent stories always have the same structure of focusing on one small ski area that's in trouble, taken from the many thousands in the Alps that few regular skiers have heard of. The stories imply (by ensuring that no context is provided), that this is a major resort and typical of many others. Last year some reports implied, again by avoiding giving any context, that a ski area in trouble that is actually close to Rome, was in the Alps.This is, of course, not to pretend that climate change does not pose an existential threat to ski holidays, but just to say that ski resorts have been closing for many decades for multiple reasons and that most of these reports do not give all the facts or paint the full picture.On no cars in ZermattIf the Little Cottonwood activists really cared about the environment in their precious canyon, they wouldn't be advocating for alternate rubber-wheeled transit up to Alta and Snowbird – they'd be demanding that the road be closed and replaced by a train or gondola or both, and that the ski resorts become a pedestrian-only enclave dotted with only as many electric vehicles as it took to manage the essential business of the towns and the ski resorts.If this sounds improbable, just look to Zermatt, which has banned gas cars for decades. Skiers arrive by train. Nearly 6,000 people live there year-round. It is amazing what humans can build when the car is considered as an accessory to life, rather than its central organizing principle.On driving in EuropeDriving in Europe is… something else. I've driven in, let's see: Iceland, Portugal, Spain, France, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, and Montenegro. That last one is the scariest but they're all a little scary. Drivers' speeds seem to be limited by nothing other than physics, passing on blind curves is common even on mountain switchbacks, roads outside of major arterials often collapse into one lane, and Euros for some reason don't believe in placing signs at intersections to indicate street names. Thank God for GPS. I'll admit that it's all a little thrilling once the disorientation wears off, and there are things to love about driving in Europe: roundabouts are used in place of traffic lights wherever possible, the density of cars tends to be less (likely due to the high cost of gas and plentiful mass transit options), sprawl tends to be more contained, the limited-access highways are extremely well-kept, and the drivers on those limited-access highways actually understand what the lanes are for (slow, right; fast, left).It may seem contradictory that I am at once a transit advocate and an enthusiastic road-tripper. But I've lived in New York City, home of the United States' best mass-transit system, for 23 years, and have owned a car for 19 of them. There is a logic here: in general, I use the subway or my bicycle to move around the city, and the car to get out of it (this is the only way to get to most ski areas in the region, at least midweek). I appreciate the options, and I wish more parts of America offered a better mix.On chairs without barsIt's a strange anachronism that the United States is still home to hundreds of chairlifts that lack safety bars. ANSI standards now require them on new lift builds (as far as I can tell), but many chairlifts built without bars from the 1990s and earlier appear to have been grandfathered into our contemporary system. This is not the case in the Eastern U.S. where, as far as I'm aware, every chairlift with the exception of a handful in Pennsylvania have safety bars – New York and many New England states require them by law (and require riders to use them). Things get dicey in the Midwest, which has, as a region, been far slower to upgrade its lift fleets than bigger mountains in the East and West. Many ski areas, however, have retrofit their old lifts with bars – I was surprised to find them on the lifts at Sundown, Iowa; Chestnut, Illinois; and Mont du Lac, Wisconsin, for example. Vail and Alterra appear to retrofit all chairlifts with safety bars once they purchase a ski area. But many ski areas across the Mountain West still spin old chairs, including, surprisingly, dozens of mountains in California, Oregon, and Washington, states that tends to have more East Coast-ish outlooks on safety and regulation.On Compagnie des AlpesAccording to Martin, the closest thing Europe has to a Vail- or Alterra-style conglomerate is Compagnie des Alpes, which operates (but does not appear to own) 10 ski areas in the French Alps, and holds ownership stakes in five more. It's kind of an amazing list:Here's the company's acquisition timeline, which includes the ski areas, along with a bunch of amusement parks and hotels:Clearly the path of least resistance to a EuroVail conflagration would be to shovel this pile of coal into the furnace. Martin referenced Tignes' forthcoming exit from the group, to join forces with ski resort Sainte-Foy on June 1, 2026 – teasing a smaller potential EuroVail acquisition. Tignes, however, would not be the first resort to exit CdA's umbrella – Les 2 Alpes left in 2020.On EuroSkiPassesThe EuroMegaPass market is, like EuroSkiing itself, unintelligible to Americans (at least to this American). There are, however, options. Martin offers the Swiss-centric Magic Pass as perhaps the most prominent. It offers access to 92 ski areas (map). You are probably expecting me to make a chart. I will not be making a chart.S**t I need to publish this article before I cave to my irrepressible urge to make a chart.OK this podcast is already 51 days old do not make a chart you moron.I think we're good here.I hope.I will also not be making a chart to track the 12 ski resorts accessible on Austria's Ski Plus City Pass Stubai Innsbruck Unlimited Freedom Pass.The Storm explores the world of lift-served skiing year-round. Join us. Get full access to The Storm Skiing Journal and Podcast at www.stormskiing.com/subscribe