EU Commission Pres. Wants to ‘Drive Global Collaboration’ to Tackle ‘Misinformation and Disinformation’ and ‘Polarization’

VON DER LEYEN: “For the global business community, the top concern for the next two years is not conflict or climate, it is disinformation and misinformation, followed closely by polarization within our societies. These risks are serious because they limit our ability to tackle the big global challenges we are facing. Changes in our climate and our geopolitical climate, shifts in our demography and in our technology. Spiraling regional conflicts and intensified geopolitical competition, and their impacts on supply chains. The sobering reality is that we are once again competing more intensely across countries than we have in several decades. And this makes takes the theme of this year’s Davos meeting even more relevant. Rebuilding trust. This is not a time for conflicts or polarization, this is a time to build trust. This is a time to drive global collaboration more than ever before. This requires immediate and structural responses to match the size of the global challenges. I believe it can be done.”