Francine Lacqua

Is it a little bit better than it was?

What do we do with China?

What's been the most surprising conversation you've had?

There's been a lot of volatility.

Larry, does that change after the threats and warnings from President Trump?

for Europe?

Is this the time where they focus on capital markets?

Larry, are you moving west to Detroit?

Let's maybe start with with the news of the week.

You know, the prime minister, Starmer and others are rebuking Donald Trump and saying he's wrong.

And yet they're still trying to stop him escalating.

I mean, can you really have it both ways or is now the time to go strong against him?

I mean, you know, President Trump has gone after Keir Starmer also on the sale of an island, which he previously approved.

So how would you

characterize relationships between the two right now?

If we had a level of anxiousness in Davos right now, it would be like...

through the roof and there's a lot of opinion saying, look, are the UK and EU sleepwalking into disaster right now because they were blindsided about what to do with Greenland?

Like, what's your response to those criticisms?

What are the risks if this escalates?

Is it to the economy or does the UK and Europe worry about intelligence sharing with the US and Ukraine?