This week takes the former foreign and defense minister welcomed business leaders, politicians and academics in Davos. The conference focuses on traditional global economic challenges.
This time throws terrorist attacks in France shadows also down in the valley where the World Economic Forum keeps house. The chief of the Intelligence Service in Norway, Lieutenant General Kjell Grandhagen, attending for the first time at the conference.
– It is important for an intelligence chief to be updated, said Grandhagen, who will participate in a panel discussion on how intelligence services should adapt to new threats .Alongside Grandhagen on the podium will be cleared space for Sir John Sawers, who until last year headed the British intelligence service MI6. It is the first time in many years that spy chiefs and generals are visible on the arena in Davos.
There is also debate about the military forces of space in Europe, and the World Economic Forum being such a prelude to the big, security policy conference in Munich at the beginning of February.
More fear war between countries
Director Espen Barth Eide said before the conference start Wednesday that context and developments are more uncertain than for many years. Eide was foreign and defense minister in the last part of the coalition Stoltenberggovernment.
– In the World Economic Forum, we see uncertainty in our own measurements. A measure of global risk factors have provided a rating where fear of a war between countries has actually moved up to first place, past including internal conflicts. We have not seen in a long, says Barth Eide told Aftenposten.He believes terror in France and arrests in the aftermath can help to dislocate the political center in Europe to the right.
– Yes, is clear it. The question now is whether a series of terror will stimulate the populist forces more than before. They have not really done so well that many feared when voters actually go to the polls – look at the Netherlands, or the extreme right in Greece before the election Sunday, said Eide.
Also time to talk about oil prices
Despite the terror and security issues will be high on the agenda at this year’s conference, there will also be plenty of time and forum for discussion of economic challenges and trends as falling oil prices.
– In Europe and in several economic powers, the oil price as a factor affecting growth in the economies, so many look favorably on it. Meanwhile there is a risk that cheap oil products can spill over in falling prices in general, says Eide.
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