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Karim Raslan

UNBELIEVABLE: Opinion how davos fell behind the times | History Defined

Participants walk through the Davos Congress Center, the venue of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, in Switzerland on May 23, 2022. Photo: VCG

Davos, the Alpine resort, thronged by the gilded crowds of the World Economic Forum (WEF) is a bacchanal that now seems antiquated, if not obsolete.

Still, watching the crowds from the sidelines, I can’t help but feel that the 2022 edition — with its lavish dinners, corporate pavilions and chalets — is a sort of fin de siècle, an end of an era, that was set in motion by Covid-19 and other events.

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