{"id":428166,"date":"2026-01-21T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/428166\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T17:31:09","slug":"christine-lagarde-walks-out-of-vip-dinner-as-howard-lutnick-insults-eu-economies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/428166\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Lagarde walks out of VIP dinner as Howard Lutnick insults EU economies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde abruptly walked out of an invitation-only sit-down dinner in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p5nvng\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Davos<\/a> after US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick started laying into Europe, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The VIP event on Tuesday evening was attended by more than 100 people and featured Lutnick as the final speaker, said the people, who declined to be identified discussing private matters.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"_137dbe642694dac0-source\">Bloomberg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde abruptly walked out of an invitation-only sit-down dinner in Davos after US&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":428167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-428166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}