{"id":282316,"date":"2025-07-22T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/282316\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:00:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T11:00:46","slug":"world-economic-forum-accused-of-rigging-rankings-to-undermine-brexit-%e2%94%81-the-european-conservative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/282316\/","title":{"rendered":"World Economic Forum Accused of Rigging Rankings to Undermine Brexit \u2501 The European Conservative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Klaus Schwab, longtime head of the World Economic Forum (WEF), is facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2025\/07\/21\/wef-rigged-data-to-make-brexit-look-like-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">serious accusations<\/a> of interfering with the organization\u2019s Global Competitiveness Report to portray Brexit as a failure. According to an internal investigation, Schwab allegedly ordered staff to prevent the UK\u2019s ranking from improving after Brexit, fearing it would benefit pro-Brexit voices. Despite a methodology change that should have boosted the UK\u2019s position, the final 2017 report instead showed a drop.<\/p>\n<p>The claims emerged from a whistleblower, who also accused Schwab of financial misconduct, inappropriate behavior toward younger staff, and manipulation of data for political purposes. <\/p>\n<p>Swiss newspaper SonntagsZeitung published parts of the ongoing probe, revealing that Schwab also intervened to maintain India\u2019s high ranking in an effort to secure Prime Minister Modi\u2019s attendance at Davos.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, including British politicians like Priti Patel and Lord Frost, condemned the alleged manipulation as anti-democratic and ideologically driven. Reform UK leaders Nigel Farage and Richard Tice said the revelations confirm long-held concerns about the WEF\u2019s globalist agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation, led by law firm Homburger, is also reviewing over \u00a3800,000 in expenses filed by Schwab and his wife, some of which allegedly lack a clear link to WEF activities. Schwab has denied wrongdoing and criticized the WEF board for leaking the preliminary findings. The final report is expected later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy further fuels concerns over elite influence in global governance, as symbolized by the so-called \u2018Davos Man\u2019\u2014a term coined to describe a class of borderless, unaccountable elites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Klaus Schwab, longtime head of the World Economic Forum (WEF), is facing serious accusations of interfering with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-282316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-eu","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-european","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-great-britain","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114896547529174515","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}