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.

The race to lead Germany is diverting through Switzerland, with a campaigning push in Davos set to showcase competing visions for how to revive Europe’s biggest economy.

Paris and Berlin are currently at odds on several files including trade agreements and what approach to take on China.

Carlos Cuerpo, Spain’s economy minister, told the Financial Times he had come to Davos to counter the view that Europe was moribund, touting his country’s own stellar record, after it outpaced US performance last year with estimated growth of 3.1 per cent and record job creation.

Davos—where the world's richest and most powerful huddle together for public talks. Here's what happened at the forum on Tuesday.

DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday he does not support freedom of speech when it is used for extreme-right views, a day after a hand gesture by U.S. billionaire Elon Musk caused uproar during Donald Trump's inauguration festivities.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz voiced cautious optimism on Tuesday on the potential for German-U.S. relations under President Donald Trump, citing good first talks with his administration, but stressed the importance of "cool heads" in the face of uncertainty.

The only elected leader from the Group of Seven developed economies taking the Davos stage is Germany’s Olaf Scholz, whose party is on course to lose the country’s general election next month ...

Ukraine’s President Zelenskyy asked whether the US saw NATO as being necessary as he addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos. Leaders from China, Ukraine and Germany have taken the stage on day one.

At no other event on earth does the supposedly 'serious' press allow themselves to be so easily co-opted by the people they’re supposed to be covering.

President Donald Trump has given everyone at Davos something to talk about with his actions on the first day of his second term.

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