One had to start with the defeated. With Sofia Goggia, of course, the Italian who had dragged a favorite status to France at these Alpine World Ski Championships that was as high as Mont Blanc. Now she persevered at the finish, her eyes fixed on the target slope under the cinema-screen-sized ski goggles, where she had just missed a goal. Then she stared at the scoreboard - as if it were a bad dream that the alarm clock was about...
Editorial stern Editor-in-Chief How Olaf Scholz did again what Olaf Scholz does best - praise Olaf Scholz: Gregor Peter Schmitz about the current star The current star-Title: "Erdoğan, the arsonist: In order to secure power, the Turkish President is fueling dangerous conflicts - also in Germany" © star Met at the World Economic Forum star- Editor-in-Chief Gregor Peter Schmitz is not a "Davos Man". For this he listened to Olaf Scholz, who above all found words of praise for himself....
comment by Caspar BusesSuddenly China is back. In record time, the world's second-largest economy after the USA is becoming the great hope for the global economy. A world economy that has recently been reeling from one crisis to the next - pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, energy crisis, climate change, inflation, political unrest in many parts of the world. So now the Chinese should fix it. Expectations have been high since the leadership in Beijing abandoned its ultra-strict zero-Covid policy...
STORY: The protests continue, as does climate change. Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg was also present in Davos. After demonstrating against lignite mining in North Rhine-Westphalia together with other climate activists in Lützerath. In Davos, however, it is a completely different stage. There were 2,700 participants from 130 countries. Among them are important representatives from the world of business and politics. Friday was the final day of the World Economic Forum. However, the climate activists are demanding action from the...
The global economy is not in good shape, that much is certain. And yet everyone in Davos agrees that the year 2023 will probably be less bad than feared. Relief spreads. "Hyperpopulists have lost elections. Europe has not frozen. There has been no recession. China has adjusted its policies. And inflation is slowing down," says economist and Harvard professor Lawrence Summers at the major outlook for the world economy at the end of the World Economic Forum. All of these...
from Caspar Busse, Wolfgang Krach and Lisa Nienhaus, DavosThis is his 27th time here. Bill Browder, "Putin's number one enemy for a long time," as he says himself, is surrounded by the smell of grilling in an adjoining room at the "Ochsen," a steakhouse in Davos. He looks contentedly at the group he has gathered around him for the "Annual Davos Dinner". It is Monday evening, the first day of the World Economic Forum 2023. The Lithuanian foreign minister is...
Greta Thunberg, Luisa Neubauer and other climate activists called for the end of new fossil projects and investments at the World Economic Forum. "There can be no new fossil projects and no fossil expansions, by the way not from coal mines either," said Neubauer on Thursday in Davos. However, the industry itself will not point the way. "Someone else has to say: Enough is enough," demanded the climate activist from Fridays for Future. As long as investors like Blackrock or...
"Have you heard, Greta is here": This sentence could be heard on every corner on Thursday morning at the World Economic Forum in Davos. The Spaniards at the next table had noticed, the Italians at the coffee bar, the Nigerians in the queue in front of the cloakroom. No wonder: every time the Swedish climate activist has spoken in Davos, the powerful of the world have been prepared for something. Many here still remember their brilliant "Our house is on...
Status: 01/19/2023 5:00 p.m The European Central Bank is not moving away from the newly adopted interest rate. In the fight against persistently high inflation in the euro zone, ECB President Lagarde announced further increases at the World Economic Forum in Davos. European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde has described euro-zone inflation as "far too high" despite the recent decline. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Lagarde made it clear that the central bank must remain "on course"...
At her first major public appearance this year, the head of the European Central Bank (ECB), Christine Lagarde, promised not to let up in the fight against high inflation. "Inflation is way too high," Lagarde said on Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos. "We will stay the course until we have stayed in the restrictive zone long enough to bring inflation back to 2 percent in time."In other words, the ECB will continue its monetary policy course with...
