Lionel Laurent, Columnist

Forget Davos, Macron's Making Dinner

Why 140 executives broke bread at Versailles with the French president.

January 24, 2018 at 6:00 AM UTC

Lionel Laurent is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist writing about the future of money and the future of Europe. Previously, he was a reporter for Reuters and Forbes.

The Hall of Mirrors at Versailles
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World leaders have different ways of wooing CEOs and investors: Donald Trump tweets loudly and cuts taxes; Theresa May makes quiet promises to companies to help them ride out Brexit.

Emmanuel Macron's method is grander: he invited 140 bosses for dinner at the palace of Versailles this week, an event that almost upstaged the elite's traditional gathering in Davos.