The French president, Emmanuel Macron, told the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday 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 and imperial ambitions are resurfacing,’ he said. He added that Trump’s tariff war aimed to ‘weaken and subordinate’ Europe
