An intensified trans-Atlantic competition, despite calls for cooperation, belied an overall upbeat mood among many business leaders in Davos who are looking for economic growth, fewer regulations, lower taxes and greater efficiencies through technologies like artificial intelligence — another key theme to the week.

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Global inflation hasn’t yet died and advanced economies outside China can’t be complacent at a time of fickle consumers and trade tensions, according to the last Davos panel of 2025.

World leaders and business titans at the World Economic Forum called out widespread pessimism, siloed markets, regulation, and cultural weakness in Europe.

Global policymakers have made remarkable progress in tackling inflation without inducing a recession, but some work remains to be done, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said in Davos.

Kristalina Georgieva, IMF managing director, speaks on a panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

Davos newsletter! After a week dominated by President Donald Trump’s shadow and tariff tensions, Davos 2025 wrapped up with a subdued final day, giving the world’s elite a chance to catch their breath and focus on the broader picture.

There is too much pessimism around Europe and it could be time to investing back in the region, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday.

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva speaks during the World Economic Forum WEF annua

BAKU, Azerbaijan, January 24. This is the first time so far when inflation is being brought down, interest rates are still somewhat high, Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), said during the Global Economic Outlook panel at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Trend reports.

Three things are holding Europe back: the absence of a capital markets union, investments not going to the most productive firms and energy costs, the managing director of the IMF told Euronews. View

As Donald Trump appeared on giant screens at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the world's rich and powerful rapturously applauded and snapped photos of the US leader. "But we hear what he's saying and now there will be discussions here in the EU and in the European Economic Area that I belong to and also in the World Trade Organization,