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The 61st Munich Security Conference (MSC 2025) is the annual meeting of the Munich Security Conference, that took place from 14 February to 16 February 2025 in Munich, Germany.
Background
One day before the event, a car attack in Munich injured 36 people. The conference ran just over one week before the 2025 German federal election.
Attendees
Attendees of the conference included:
The conference was opened on 14 February 2025 by German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier. During the event, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with US vice president JD Vance, while Vance also met with Alice Weidel, co-chairwoman of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), and with opposition leader Friedrich Merz. Zelenskyy also had a meeting with several United States senators from both major US political parties.
Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, said that European countries needed to come up with plans for Ukraine if they wished to play a major role in discussions on a peace settlement for the Russia–Ukraine war.
In a speech, Vance said that illegal migration was the "most urgent" challenge faced by Europe. Vance also said that European leaders need to do more to contribute to Ukrainian defense as the US focuses more on China. Vance also claimed that European states were failing to uphold free speech and democratic values, criticizing the firewall against the far-right in Germany and the decision to cancel the results of the 2024 Romanian presidential election because of Russian interference in the campaign. German defense minister Boris Pistorius rebuffed Vance's speech, saying,
if I have understood him correctly, he is comparing conditions in parts of Europe with those in authoritarian regions ... that is not acceptable.
Vance's speech was also criticised, among others, by Chancellor Olaf Scholz (Social Democratic Party of Germany), Natalia Pouzyreff (The Republic on the Move), Opposition Leader and likely next Chancellor Friedrich Merz (Christian Democratic Union of Germany), Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck (Alliance 90/The Greens), and Minister for Foreign Annalena Baerbock (Alliance 90/The Greens). Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (Free Democratic Party) called Vance's speech a "bizarre intellectual bottom".
Responses vary greatly, but include Scholz saying,
that is why we will not accept outsiders interfering in our democracy, our elections, and in the democratic formation of opinions in support and for the benefit of this party … that is not appropriate – especially among friends and allies, and we firmly reject this.
Scholz also said "the democratic parties in Germany 'have a common consensus' because of the experiences with national socialism: that consensus is the firewall against extreme right parties", stressing further that "the Federal Republic [of Germany] is a democracy, that created itself from the opposition against national socialism and against facism", national socialism and their monstrous crimes have been trivialised from the ranks of the AfD as a speck of "birdshit in German history", "a commitment to 'never again', as Vance made during a visit to the Dachau concentration camp memorial site, cannot be reconciled with support for the AfD", and that Germans "decide their democracy for themselves."
Habeck noted that in the US "a new form of technological money-nobility" is currently emerging as a social class that needs German and European responses, and "what Vance did yesterday [...] it must be said as clearly as this [...] it's none of your business [...] deal with your own stuff, there are enough challenges in the US." Merz criticised Vance's interference in the German election, rejected Vance's allegation of a value deficit in Europe saying that lawful regulation of hate speech and fake news by independent courts is absolutely appropriate, and pointed out that journalists would never be denied access to the chancellory in reference to Associated Press staff being denied access to the White House and Air Force One for their choice of speech around the name of the Gulf of Mexico.
Zelenskyy called for the creation of a European army. Such an army is a prerequisite to Europe, which has more than twice the population of the US, developing its own nuclear umbrella. Currently that umbrella is contributed to NATO by the US as a deterrent, with Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Turkey being nuclear sharing participants and France and the UK maintaining their own nuclear weapons. Loss of this umbrella would create a significant gap, and might lead to what it was in part created to prevent: proliferation of nuclear weapons and emergence of Europe as anything but an indivisible albeit junior partner of the US.
See also
Peace negotiations in the Russian invasion of Ukraine
London and Paris Conferences
Two Plus Four Agreement
Budapest Memorandum
Minsk agreements
Notes
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