LGF2025 Video Forum 2025

Trump, Trade, the World Economy and the Search for Peace

With Martin Wolf and David French. Straight talk, debate, and the search for a better understanding of this rapidly changing world.

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LUGANO – November 10, 2025 — A lively, direct and unfiltered exchange between Romano Prodi and Václav Klaus inaugurated the first edition of the Lugano Global Forum, offering a vivid snapshot of the geopolitical tensions running through Europe in a time of deep global uncertainty. The encounter, conceived — as Director Alan Friedman noted — “to let serious people talk seriously,” immediately captured the attention of the 150 international leaders in attendance.