Angela Merkel was missing from Davos this year, but the German leader's optimistic mantra "we can do this' echoed through the snowy resort in the Swiss Alps. China's economic slowdown? Manageable. Plunging financial markets? Temporary. And Europe's refugee crisis? A big challenge, but one which will ultimately push the bloc's members closer together, audiences were told over and over again. Beneath the veneer of can-do optimism at the World Economic Forum (WEF), however, was a creeping concern that the politicians, diplomats and central bankers who flock each ...
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At the top of the lengthy list of worries was Europe, whose policymakers remain deeply divided in their approach to the refugee crisis at a time when the bloc faces a host of other threats
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First Published: Sun, January 24 2016. 23:41 IST
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