Macron tells Davos of shift towards ‘a world without rules’

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Macron tells Davos of shift towards 'a world without rules'

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, told the World Economic Forum, in Davos, that the world was sliding away from democracy and international law towards autocracy and violence.

‘It’s a shift to a world without rules, where international law is trampled underfoot and where the only law that seems to matter is that of the strongest,’ he said on Tuesday. Imperial ambitions were resurfacing, he added, and Donald Trump’s tariff war aimed to ‘weaken and subordinate’ Europe

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Date: January 20, 2026