Trump visit set to eclipse Davos meet

GENEVA: US President Donald Trump´s planned visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos next week will likely eclipse the long list of other movers and shakers set to attend. The WEF on Tuesday unveiled its lineup for the annual meeting at the luxury Swiss ski resort town, where this year´s focus is on how to create “a shared future in a fractured world.” “The sheer scale of the challenges our world faces makes concerted, collaborative and integrated action more essential than ever,” WEF founder and executive chairman Klaus Schwab said in a statement. He added that the 48th edition of the Davos meeting would aim “to overcome these fault lines by reasserting shared interests among nations and securing multi stakeholder commitment to renewing social contracts through inclusive growth.” But ironically this year´s main attraction will be Trump, who is widely blamed for deepening a range of diplomatic rifts and creating new ones with polarising policy and rhetoric.