Trust says Reform UK leader was invited to WEF event by London-based venture capitalist as an honorary adviser

Nigel Farage’s trip to Davos this week was hosted and paid for by the $10bn family trust of an Iranian-born billionaire, the Guardian has learned.

The leader of Reform UK has been touring Davos this week, giving speeches in which he pledged to tax banks and “fight the globalists”.

Was kann Europa tun, um seinen Platz in der Welt zu verteidigen? Ein Gespräch mit dem Wirtschaftsnobelpreisträger Philippe Aghion über schöpferische Zerstörung, seinen Hausaufgaben-Helfer Karl Lagerfeld und weshalb Europa nicht vor Trump buckeln darf.

Beim Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos kamen in dieser Woche die Reichen und Mächtigen zusammen. Die fünf wichtigsten Erkenntnisse aus dem elitären Treffen.

Rolling coverage of the final day of the World Economic Forum in Davos

The weakening world order has been a key issue at WEF’s annual meeting this week, but could space be an area where the big powers, and the rest, can still co-operate?

Max Haot, CEO of Vast Space, is here in Davos, and is optimistic that heightened geopolitical tensions will not undermine the space industry.

Even during the Cold War, we did things with Russia at the time. We connected the Soyuz capsule of Russia with the Apollo capsule, and later on, we worked with Mir and the space shuttle.

We also hope, obviously, the collaboration starts on every level. Everything tells us historically, that there is a really good chance that the symbolism of human spaceflight, the desire to work together, the higher goal, can survive some more short-term tensions in other areas.

While leaders of many liberal democracies declined to sign on, Mark Carney had, before Davos, accepted in principle

Donald Trump withdrew on Thursday an invitation for Canada to join his “board of peace” initiative aimed at resolving global conflicts.

“Please let this Letter serve to represent that the Board of Peace is withdrawing its invitation to you regarding Canada’s joining, what will be, the most prestigious Board of Leaders ever assembled, at any time,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post directed at the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney.

The US president unveiled the board with a gold logo whose resemblance to the UN emblem sparked European criticism

Donald Trump’s newly launched “board of peace” already has a logo – and perceptive eyes have noted its close resemblance to the United Nations emblem, except reworked in Trump fashion: all in gold, and focused squarely on the US.

Launched this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the initiative was first endorsed back in November by the UN security council, on the understanding that it would focus on brokering a ceasefire in Gaza. Since then, however, Trump has positioned it as a global body tasked with resolving international conflicts of all stripes, and to be chaired by Trump himself, in what appears to be part of the administration’s latest effort to reshape the postwar global order.

Die Woche begann für Frankreichs Präsidenten mit einer geplatzten Ader im rechten Auge. Und dann kam jemand auf die Idee mit der Sonnenbrille. Es wurde eine gute Woche für Trumps liebsten Gegenspieler.

Ukraine president accuses EU leaders of waiting for direction from Donald Trump in blistering speech at Davos

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has taken aim at Europe in a fiery speech at Davos, accusing leaders of being in “Greenland mode” as they waited for leadership from Donald Trump on Ukraine and other geopolitical crises rather than taking action themselves.

The Ukrainian president’s call to arms, targeting some of Kyiv’s top allies, capped a week of extraordinary diplomatic drama at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort, where European leaders scrambled to end a standoff with the White House over Greenland, and several western leaders – led by Canada’s Mark Carney – called for stronger pushback against Trump’s territorial ambitions and political whims.

Um den US-Präsidenten in die Schranken zu weisen, gibt es vor allem ein Mittel: Geld. Wenn sich die Europäer aber zu schnell von US-Staatsanleihen verabschieden, wäre das sehr riskant.

Auf dem Weltwirtschaftsforum scheint Trump in der Grönland-Frage zu deeskalieren. Trotzdem braucht Europa wohl neue Partner.

Zu viele Worte, zu wenig Taten: Der ukrainische Präsident rechnet beim Weltwirtschaftsforum mit seinen europäischen Verbündeten ab. Erstmals sollen am Wochenende Vertreter der Ukraine und Russlands mit einer US-Delegation zusammenkommen.

Trotz der Kehrtwende von Donald Trump in Davos bleibt Kopenhagen auf der Hut. Und in Grönland wühlt der US-Präsident alte Traumata auf.

Der große Knall ist ausgeblieben: Europa und die USA steuern nicht länger auf einen Handelskrieg zu, der Nato droht kein abruptes Ende mehr. Dahinter steht Generalsekretär Mark Rutte – aber nicht nur.

Trump’s tariff retreat should lull nobody into dropping their guard. The EU must join forces with Canada, Japan and other like-minded countries

EU leaders would do well to meditate on the seminal lesson that the Canadian prime minister, Mark Carney, delivered at this year’s World Economic Forum.

In an incisive analysis of the new age of predatory great powers, where might is increasingly asserted as right, Carney not only accurately defined the coarsening of international relations as “a rupture, not a transition”. He also outlined how liberal democratic “middle powers” such as Canada – but also European countries – must build coalitions to counter coercion and defend as much as possible of the principles of territorial integrity, the rule of law, free trade, climate action and human rights. He spelled out a hedging strategy that Canada is already pursuing, diversifying its trade and supply chains and even opening its market to Chinese electric vehicles to counter Donald Trump’s tariffs on Canadian-made automobiles.

Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre