World Economic Forum disrupted the World Economic Forum in Melbourne, obstructing the path of two hundred delegates to the meeting. Repeatedly, demonstrations are held in Davos "(see Anti-WEF protests in Switzerland, January 2003)" to protest against what have been called the meetings of "fat cats in the snow", a tongue-in-cheek term used by rock singer Bono. After 2014, the protest movement against the World Economic Forum has largely died down, and Swiss police noted a significant decline in attending protesters, 20 at most during the meeting in 2016. While protesters are still more numerous in large Swiss cities, the protest movement itself has
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