Premier Wen Jiabao will leave for Europe on Jan 27 and is expected to focus on how to tackle the global economic crisis during his visit.

His tour will take him to Germany, Spain, the UK and Belgium, where he will visit the European Union (EU) headquarters in Brussels, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu told a regular news briefing yesterday.

He will also travel to Davos in Switzerland to attend the World Economic Forum during his EU visit, which ends on Feb 2.