President Donald Trump repeated false claims about the US trade relationship with Canada and Europe in virtual Thursday remarks to the World Economic Forum in Davos. He also delivered a smattering of other misstatements and exaggerations about trade,
President Trump doubled down on the prospect of across-the-board tariffs in a video appearance to business executives and politicians gathered in Davos, Switzerland.
Trump used Davos to warn Europe, demanding NATO allies raise defence spending to 5% of GDP and threatening tariffs on companies not manufacturing in the US. He linked lower oil prices to ending the Ukraine war and assured LNG exports to Europe would continue.
I was among 700 people in the hall to hear Donald Trump address the World Economic Forum in Davos. I wondered whether his blunt style landed.
In a virtual speech broadcast to world leaders at Davos, US President Donald Trump today put forward several pledges for his second term, including promises to battle government spending, “economic chaos” and increased public borrowing.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, a fresh division in global banking is emerging: firms that get to enjoy the sound of rules being torn up in Washington, and those that get to worry they’ll be left behind.
As Ukraine's president discussed peacekeeping forces needed to enforce any ceasefire and U.S. President Donald Trump urged an end to three years of war, Ukrainian officials were courting private investors this week to help rebuild the country.
According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the European Union is working on a proposal for EU-wide purchase incentives for electric vehicles. However, there
Last year, Mark Rutte attended the Davos gathering as Dutch prime minister while angling for his current job as secretary general of NATO, praising Trump for pushing Europeans to step up defense spending. That view — somewhat controversial then — is now widely accepted.
Leading business and political figures attending the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, have discussed and debated topics such as technology, tariffs, climate change, Ukraine, Gaza and the global economy this week.
President Donald Trump has given everyone at Davos something to talk about with his actions on the first day of his second term
Volkswagen will need to make additional investments in the United States to hit its target of doubling market share in the country, its CFO Arno Antlitz said on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos,