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.

January 20, 2025 Attendees at the ongoing 2025 World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland have expressed concerns over the potential uncertainties brought by the Trump administration,

The Panama Canal was not a gift from the United States, President Jose Raul Mulino said Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump threatened to take it back.

Officials and business executives at the annual gathering in Switzerland said the fight against global climate change would continue with or without the United States.

His second term heralds the demise of the pro-trade internationalist ethos that the WEF has long revered. Read more at straitstimes.com.

As business titans and world leaders gathered Monday in Davos, Switzerland, for the opening of the annual World Economic Forum, all eyes were on President Donald Trump ’s taking power again in Washington.

A change in the H-1B visa policy for highly skilled professionals from India under Trump 2.0 would be "fantastic" for the US as it needs them, American economist Kenneth Rogoff told NDTV at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos.

Von der Leyen insisted that the United States remains an important partner, taking a conciliatory tone in a speech to the annual meeting of global elites in Davos, Switzerland. The EU's "first priority will be to engage early, discuss common interests, and be ready to negotiate" with Trump, she said.

BILLIONAIRES’ CLUB: With Trump taking office, the Davos set arrives on the Magic Mountain this year with newfound swagger. Even as the rest of the world frets about Trump’s threats of a trade war, Wall Street has never had it so good, as your Global Playbook author reports in this story.

Speaking to Europe’s elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Zelensky laid into many of the European countries that have helped keep Ukraine afloat since the Russian invasion, chiding them for not taking their own defense and the threat from Moscow sufficiently seriously.

Ukrainian president calls on European politicians to “be more than just bystanders” who are “reduced to posting on X after an agreement has already been made.”

In his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stressed that it is time for Europe to take its destiny into its own hands and become stronger and more capable of being as valuable an ally for the United States as the United States is for Europe.