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.

Welcome to the Brussels Edition, Bloomberg’s daily briefing on what matters most in the heart of the European Union.

At the World Economic Forum, much of the global corporate elite is responding with surprising optimism to the new president’s radical and hyperactive agenda.

President Volodymyr Zelensky separately met with German opposition leader Friedrich Merz and Israeli President Isaac Herzog on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Jan. 22.

DAVOS – German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz, the front runner in polls to become the next chancellor, on Jan 21 urged a united European stance in talks with US President Donald ...

DAVOS, Switzerland — Germany’s likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, wants his country and France to overcome their disputes on EU trade policy. “I am very close to Emmanuel Macron, and we are meeting regularly on these issues,” Merz told a panel ...

From the earliest speeches, panel discussions and back-channel meetings in the Swiss Alpine town of Davos, Trump’s executive orders and evocative oratory will loom large. Here's a look at what's on tap Tuesday in Davos. Right from the start, participants will be able to riff off of -- and possibly rip into -- Trump’s new tack.

Davos 2025: Trade, Tariffs ... as well as German opposition leader and would-be chancellor Friedrich Merz in an effort to stir up support for Ukraine's fight against Russia.

Friedrich Merz is the frontrunner in polls to become ... Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos a day after Trump’s inauguration, Merz recalled congratulating him in a handwritten letter ...

From Nigel Farage to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, here are the competitors for the position of Europe’s Trump whisperer.

Trump bump meets reality: Concerns that Chinese startup DeepSeek has come up with a powerful new AI model that can do things better, faster and cheaper than the U.S. front-runners rattled stock markets, wiping a whopping $600 billion off chip-maker Nvidia and plunging the Nasdaq into disarray.

Since the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, opened on the same day as Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th president in the USA, the news coverage of the WEF annual meeting 2025 under the theme 'Collaboration in the Intelligent Age' was less than it otherwise would have been.