Read this entry in French and Spanish As I leave Davos, they are already taking down the white sheeting that hides the double wire-spiked security fence that surrounds the Congress Centre. Within a few hours it will have been dismantled, the metal detectors and baggage x-ray machines will have been packed away, the Swiss army [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘World Economic Forum 2009’
January 31, 2009
Religious leaders at Davos call for peace in the Middle East
Caritas Internationalis Secretary General Lesley-Anne Knight, who is at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, has backed a call for peace in the Middle East issued by religious leaders at Davos today.
“I fully support this powerful statement from religious leaders, which reflects the deep distress many of us here in Davos feel at the suffering of innocent people in the Middle East,” she said.
January 30, 2009
Davos Day Four
Read this entry in French or Spanish Tempers flared here at Davos yesterday afternoon in a session on Gaza and the Middle East. The Prime Minister of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan walked out of the discussion after clashing with the Israeli President Shimon Peres. Davos brings together so many people with conflicting viewpoints that it [...]
January 29, 2009
Davos Day Three
Read this entry in Spanish and French Discussion at this year’s World Economic Forum is naturally centred on the global economic crisis: What went wrong? Who is to blame? How do we get out of it? And how long will it last? These are the questions everyone is asking. But the emphasis is supposed to [...]
January 28, 2009
Davos Day Two
Read this entry in Spanish and French Change often comes through small steps. And many small steps will be recorded at Davos this year. Every participant has been issued with a pedometer that will log the distance they have walked during the week. There is a prize for everyone who manages more than 20,000 steps [...]
January 27, 2009
World Economic Forum: Entry 1
“Why on earth are you going to Davos?” my friend asked incredulously. For her, attending the World Economic Forum was tantamount to fraternising with the enemy. It was a sell-out.
