Davos, "occupied" by geopolitical tensions - Europe, united against Trump's plan to annex Greenland
This week, hundreds of senior political leaders from around the world, including nearly 65 heads of state and government, have gathered in Davos for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. World leaders are meeting against the backdrop of the most complex geopolitical landscape in decades, with increasing fragmentation and rapid technological change transforming the global economy. Participants come from the G7 countries, the G20 economies and the BRICS.
In a special speech, European Union President Ursula von der Leyen detailed Europe's efforts to pursue new trade relations and adapt to the current era of US tariffs and protectionism. "Europe will always choose the world and the world is ready to choose Europe," she said. Amid the ongoing US threat to take over Greenland, von der Leyen added that Europe "must adapt to a new security architecture."
More direct to Donald Trump was French President Emmanuel Macron, who said France and Europe must “defend effective multilateralism” against a shift toward “the law of the strongest.” “We believe we need more growth, we need more stability in this world, but we prefer respect to bullies, we prefer science to conspiracies and we prefer the rule of law to brutality. You are welcome in Europe and you are more than welcome in France,” Macron said.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney also took a tough stance on what is happening in the world today. "For decades, countries like Canada thrived under what we called the rules-based international order. We joined the institutions, we valued the principles, we benefited from its predictability... now that arrangement no longer works," Carney said.
Meanwhile, in a special speech, Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng called on countries to pursue economic cooperation, noting that tariffs and trade wars have no winners. He added that "while economic globalization is not perfect," countries cannot completely reject it and retreat into self-isolation.
Along with about 65 heads of state, the forum is also attended by about 850 CEOs of the world's largest companies.
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