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.

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Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become chancellor after Germany’s snap election next month, will take his campaign pitch to the World Economic Forum next week.

Germany's conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, frontrunner in polls to become the next chancellor, on Tuesday urged a united European stance in talks with US President Donald Trump.

Friedrich Merz, the leading candidate for the chancellery in Germany's upcoming election, said a leaked briefing by Germany's ambassador to the United States heavily criticising Donald Trump was damaging to the German government's reputation.

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

The war in Ukraine must end with no hope for Putin, who initiated it, to achieve his goals and subjugate Ukraine. — Ukrinform.

The U.N. chief ratcheted up his warning about climate change and said the world's thirst for fossil fuels is a “Frankenstein monster" that spares no one, while calling for greater attention to risks posed by artificial intelligence if its ascent goes ungoverned.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that he met with German opposition leader Friedrich Merz, just weeks before a federal election in Germany.

German opposition leader Friedrich Merz sees potential in collaborating with U.S. President Trump, advocating for a strong European negotiating stance. His call for unified military purchases faces challenges from France's defense industry.

During a meeting in Davos with Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Qatar Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky thanked him for mediating the return of 53 children forcibly taken from Ukraine by Russia.