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World Economic Forum "Davos": Before Merkel's speech - focus on great fear of corona mutation

2021-01-26T10:01:36.571Z


The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is under the impression of the corona pandemic. In the afternoon, Chancellor Angela Merkel will give her speech.


The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is under the impression of the corona pandemic.

In the afternoon, Chancellor Angela Merkel will give her speech.

  • The annual

    World Economic Forum

    * will not

    take place

    in the Swiss ski resort of

    Davos

    this year due to the corona pandemic

    .

  • Instead, a virtual

    “Davos Agenda Week” has been

    scheduled, at which prominent representatives from politics and business will speak.

  • Among them is the German Chancellor

    Angela Merkel

    *, whose speech is announced for Tuesday at 1 p.m.

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    news ticker is

    constantly updated.

Davos - Unlike usual,

this year

the annual

World Economic Forum is

not

taking place

in the Swiss ski resort of

Davos

*, but rather virtually.

This time, the main focus will be on coping with the

corona pandemic

* and

climate change

*.

Chinese President

Xi Jinping

* gave his speech

on Monday,

and Chancellor

Angela Merkel

*

will also

speak at the forum

during the “Davos Agenda Week”

.

The US is represented by former Secretary of State

John Kerry

.

On Monday, UN Secretary General

António Guterres called

for a hurry to distribute

corona vaccines

*

worldwide

.

"If the industrialized countries believe that they are safe, if they vaccinate their own people and neglect developing countries, they are wrong,"

Guterres

said

in a video speech on Monday.

“There is now a clear, real danger of

mutations

* that will make the virus more transmissible or deadly or more resistant to existing vaccines *.

We have to act quickly. "

World Economic Forum Davos: Fighting the Covid-19 pandemic in focus

The global production capacities of the means to contain the

Covid-19 pandemic

would have to be massively expanded and licenses made available, Guterres continued.

In addition, it must be ensured that the

vaccines

are affordable in poorer parts of the world.

"Vaccines must be seen as global public goods," said the UN chief and campaigned for better funding for the international corona vaccination

initiative Covax

*.

Renowned US corona expert

Anthony Fauci

* reported on the difficult

corona situation

in his country: "It is extremely problematic to deal with a public health crisis when the country is in the middle of a split," he said Head of the National Institute for Infectious Diseases.

"When public health issues are politically charged - when wearing a mask * is a political statement - then you can't imagine how damaging that is to a public health message."

“Davos Agenda Week”: President Xi Jinping criticizes sanctions against China

China's head of state and party leader

Xi Jinping

spoke out in favor of more international cooperation and free world trade against the background of growing tensions between his country and the USA or Europe.

The world's problems could not be solved by any country alone, said

Xi Jinping

on Monday in a video speech at the opening of the virtual annual meeting.

Forming small alliances will only divide the world further.

Video: China's President Xi Jinping warns of "new cold war"

Without going into the multitude of newly imposed

US

sanctions

against China, Xi Jinping warned more generally against threatening other countries or imposing sanctions, decoupling the economies or disrupting supply chains.

Foreign trade policy should not be at the expense of other countries either.

Regardless of the criticism of persistent market barriers in China,

Xi Jinping reassured

that China wants to open up further.

It was the second appearance of the Chinese President at the annual meeting after 2017.

At that time,

after the inauguration of

Donald Trump

*

,

Xi Jinping

used the meeting to present himself as a pioneer of free world trade, in contrast to the then new US president and his protectionism.

World Economic Forum Davos: Speeches by Merkel, Macron and von der Leyen announced

In a panel

discussion

,

Federal Minister of Economics

Peter Altmaier assumed

that the

US position

on open markets and multilateralism had changed.

This was something very controversial in the debates with the USA for four years.

With regard to the new US administration under

Joe Biden

*, the CDU * politician said: "Now we should give them a chance not only to develop their ideas, but also to implement them."

Until Friday, representatives from politics, business and society will discuss current challenges in online rounds at the Economic Forum. Speeches by ECB boss

Christine Lagarde

, Federal Minister of Economics

Peter Altmaier

and VW boss

Herbert Diess have been

announced

on the subject of economics

. EU Commission President

Ursula von der Leyen

*, French President

Emmanuel Macron

* and German Chancellor

Angela Merkel

* will also speak at the forum. The World Economic Forum also wants to host an actual meeting this year: At the end of May, business leaders, top politicians and representatives of society are to come

together

in

Singapore

. (dpa / fmü)

* Merkur.de and tz.de are part of the nationwide Ippen digital editorial network.

Source: merkur

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