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Recep Tayyip Erdogan is famous for claiming to pursue a “zero problems” foreign policy in the Middle East. Aiming for zero problems in the Middle East is difficult for anybody to deliver on. After all, the wider neighborhood is fiendishly complex and conflict-ridden. No wonder that his vision unraveled badly. In the process, Erdogan crossed swords with just about every nation in the region, from Egypt to Syria and Iran to Iraq.

Erdogan: Everybody’s False Friend

By: EBR | Friday, February 2, 2018

The Turkish President only knows one loyalty — to himself. Little wonder Erdogan acts like a congenital flamethrower in international relations

“I’m giving up my days of school because I want to highlight that the education of girls and women is so important.” She described meeting a Syrian refugee girl, and asking her what she wanted to be. “She said, I want to be an architect, because on the day that she left Syria, she saw her country destroyed and devastated. She wants to be an architect to rebuild her country.”

6 quotes from Davos on the future of education

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 30, 2018

The future of work is going to look very different, as automation and Artificial Intelligence make many manual, repetitive jobs obsolete.

Johannes Gungl, the chair of BEREC, the umbrella group of telecoms regulators from EU countries, told EURACTIV.com that the US plan is unrealistic. He predicted that it would likely lead to a price war if the government bankrolls a nationalised network and competes with another one funded by private telecoms operators.

EU telecoms regulator warns US proposal on 5G would ‘end in disaster’

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 30, 2018

A proposal from the Trump administration to build public-funded 5G networks will “end in disaster”, the EU’s top telecoms regulator has warned, urging Europe to speed up plans for its own fast internet networks

China will be the big financial story of tomorrow, said Jin Keyu, Professor of Economics at LSE. ”It’s the first time a county with only 25% of the GDP of the US is leading in many areas of tech. As we encourage China to open up, are we prepared for the shocks and volatility that even a tiny tremor in China could cause?”

What just happened? The biggest stories from Davos 2018

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 30, 2018

That's it for another year. With over 400 sessions on the official programme (160 of which were broadcast live on our website), it can be hard keeping up with everything happening at our Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland

“Have we actually learned the lessons of history? We haven’t really,” she said in a plenary session at Davos. The spirit of multilateralism that rebuilt Europe and formed our international institutions in the aftermath of the Second World War was now under threat, she said.

Angela Merkel at Davos: we need global cooperation, not walls

By: EBR | Friday, January 26, 2018

Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed the importance of multilateralism and warned that we haven’t learned from the darkest days of history

As the UK leaves the EU, it will still be an advocate of global trade, making new bilateral deals with countries across the world, says the British PM.

British Prime Minister Theresa May looked ahead to hi-tech life after Brexit

By: EBR | Friday, January 26, 2018

A special address by UK’s Theresa May

President Macron also called for the EU, which already opened the world’s first carbon trading market, to “go a little bit further and create a floor price for CO2.” Carbon markets work by providing a financial incentive to pollute less; many experts have called for a minimum price on carbon to boost progress.

Macron at Davos: I will shut all coal-fired power stations by 2021

By: EBR | Friday, January 26, 2018

France will shut down all coal-fired power stations by 2021, President Emmanuel Macron said in an energetic speech to participants at Davos

“Bitcoin is another really clever idea, I’m impressed with the technology, but it seems to me that it’s technology for something else…. I tend to think of Bitcoin as an interesting experiment, it’s not a permanent feature of our lives. We’re over-emphasising Bitcoin, we should broaden it out to blockchain, which will have other applications.”

Robert Shiller: Bitcoin is just an ’interesting experiment’

By: EBR | Friday, January 26, 2018

The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Shiller described Bitcoin as an “interesting experiment” rather than the future of our financial system

”If we don’t align together, human beings are going to fight each other, because each technology revolution makes the world unbalanced.”

Jack Ma on the IQ of love - and other top quotes from his Davos interview

By: EBR | Thursday, January 25, 2018

In Davos, Alibaba founder and Executive Chairman Jack Ma spoke openly and at length about some of the key challenges facing the world, delivering a stream of perspectives and guidance

Still, there is good news for spurring growth and equity in the form of the billion or so women poised to engage in economic activity. Empowering women to participate equally in the global economy could add $28 trillion in GDP growth by 2025.

This is why women must play a greater role in the global economy

By: EBR | Thursday, January 25, 2018

For the last 30 years, trade has been one of the stabilising pillars of the global community – creating jobs, supporting the development and spreading of technology and ideas, boosting productivity, expanding consumer choice and enabling cross-border communications channels and supply chains

On that note, today, I am pleased to announce that Canada and the ten other remaining members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership concluded discussions in Tokyo, Japan, on a new Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).

Justin Trudeau addresses the World Economic Forum

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 24, 2018

A transcript of Justin Trudeau's speech at the World Economic Forum 2018

In our liquid, digital economy, labor no longer ties down capital. While labor still depends on capital to supply the tools to be productive, capital itself is now weightless, free of spatial confinement.

Liquid Capitalism: Making Sense of Davos

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Living under the modern conditions of “liquidity,” humans know that everything can happen—yet nothing can be done with confidence and certainty

Modi, leader of the fastest growing major economy in the world - as well as the world’s largest democracy - delivered a special address during which he also spoke about the opportunities and dangers of technology, India’s plan to fight income inequality, job creation, and how the country is “cutting the red tape and rolling out the red carpet” to international trade and investment.

Narendra Modi: These are the 3 greatest threats to civilization

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Climate change, terrorism and the backlash against globalization are the three most significant challenges to civilization as we know it, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting 2018 in Davos, Switzerland

Today coalition membership stands at 74, comprised of 70 nations and four international organizations (the European Union, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, Arab League and INTERPOL). Twenty-three partners, including the United States, have collectively stationed more than 10,000 troops in Iraq and Syria, working to build the military capacity of those engaged in direct action against ISIS and supporting efforts to deny it safe haven.

The Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS: A Success Story

By: EBR | Wednesday, January 24, 2018

The 74-member international coalition illustrates American leadership in action

Any one of these risks could disrupt the world trading system and global growth. Together, they remind us that global leadership matters. Progress is rarely rooted in conflict, although conflict is at times necessary for peace. The challenge today in a world of simmering conflict is how leaders will foster stability. Acting alone, history would suggest, has rarely worked.

Five reasons to lose sleep in 2018

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 23, 2018

IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde reported in October 2017 that “the long-awaited economic recovery is taking root [with] the broadest-based acceleration since the start of the decade”

Now, ten years later, we look once again with optimism at our future, having managed the financial crisis and returned to strong economic growth. But still, we are stuck in a social crisis and there is no doubt that we are living in a fractured world. The big concern is that our optimism lets us forget that economic growth without restoring the social contract will not be sustainable.

The wold needs ’qualitative easing’ and business must lead

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 23, 2018

A message from Professor Klaus Schwab to the participants of Davos 2018

The challenge and opportunity before us today is to begin to think of development through the lens of environmental health. The environment as a primary concern, not an afterthought. The science has never been clearer. We know the impact, the consequences and the unsustainability of our development model. As we continue to connect in new ways, we must also reconnect to Earth.

It’s time to bring our planet back from the brink

By: EBR | Monday, January 22, 2018

As world leaders gather in Davos this week to discuss how to better shape our future through strengthened cooperation, it’s imperative to also focus on how to prevent the health of our planet from failing. This is not “doom and gloom” – the risk is real

Science is universal and unifying. An apple falls in the same way whether it falls in a 17th-century English garden, inspiring Isaac Newton to develop his laws of universal gravitation; or whether it falls anywhere on earth at any time in history. It is this universality, coupled with a love for knowledge and understanding shared by all humanity, that gives science its power to transcend cultural and other differences.

Science is universal and unifying

By: EBR | Monday, January 22, 2018

The history of humankind is often told as the epic rise and fall of great empires, clashes of civilizations and epoch-defining conflicts

Despite enjoying the shortest working hours among OECD member countries, Germany manages to maintain high productivity levels. In fact, the average German worker is reported to be 27% more productive than his or her British counterpart.

The countries where people work the longest hours

By: EBR | Friday, January 19, 2018

Mexicans work far longer days than anyone else. Germans, on the other hand, clock up the least hours

European governments seem lulled into a sense of security by a fall-off in migrants. The UN’s Institute of Migration (IOM) in Geneva recently reported that the number of people crossing the Mediterranean to Europe by boat in 2017 was, at about 170,000, half the level of the year before. Both were a trickle compared to 2015, when well over a million refugees fled from Syria and other conflict zones.

Missing: A beefed-up plan for Africa’s population explosion

By: EBR | Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Where is Europe's relationship with Africa headed; where is the Grand Bargain they both need?

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