Overview
- Sessions at the World Economic Forum begin today after last night’s opening, with the U.S. president scheduled to arrive Wednesday.
- European leaders plan to use Davos’s informal setting and one‑on‑one meetings to press for a retreat from threatened import tariffs tied to the Greenland dispute.
- Analysts warn that the EU’s 27 members need tightly coordinated messaging to avoid mixed signals in conversations with the U.S. leader.
- Denmark is staying away from Davos because of tensions over Greenland, complicating efforts to present a unified European front.
- This year’s Global Risk Report is described as unusually negative, elevating geo‑economic confrontations and armed conflict as top near‑term risks while Trump is expected to promote the U.S. agenda and court major CEOs.