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Marco Ruibo MSC 2026.jpeg
US Secreatary of State Marco Rubio
Date13 February 2026 - 15 February 2026
LocationMunich,  Bavaria,  Germany
Websitehttps://securityconference.org/en/msc-2026/
DescriptionThe 2026 Munich Security Conference had as theme "Under destruction". The solution is - as always - more spending on weapons
ParticipantsMazloum Abdi, Mohd Faiz Abdullah, Ahmad Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Huma Abedin, Giorgia Abeltino, Ahmed Aboul-Gheit, Jalaa Abuarab, Angeline Abuor, Humaid Obaid Khalifa Obaid Abushibs, Paul Achleitner, Philipp Ackermann, Mohammed Fathelrahman M. Ahmed Adam, Timothy Adams, Karan Adani, Gideon Mamo Adugna, Willemijn Aerdts, Armine Afeyan, Noubar Afeyan, Jarrod Agen, Varsen Aghabekian Shaheen, Anthony Agotha, Ravi Agrawal, María Elena Agüero, Heba Aguib, Zanetor Agyeman-Rawlings, Christopher Ahlberg, Henrik Ahlers, Kavita Ahluwalia, Ilham Ahmed, Adis Ahmetović, Thomas Ahrenkiel, Ilse Aigner, Petrit Ajeti, Tomoko Akane, Hulusi Akar, Ceylan Akça Cupolo, Erik Akerboom, Hiroyuki Akita, Hussein Mohammed Al Ayeb, Faisal Al Bannai, Badr bin Hamad bin Hamoud Al Busaidi, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, Musabbeh Al Kaabi, Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al Khalifa, Mohamed bin Ahmad bin Abdullah Al Mesned, Ali Rashid Al Nuaimi, Abdullah bin Khalid Al Saud, Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Turki Al Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, Rashad Mohamed Ali Al-Alimi, Majed Mohammed Al-Ansari, Saifaldin Al-Darraji, Khalid bin Ali Al-Humaidan, Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, Khalfan bin Ali Al-Kaabi, Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, Khalid Al-Khater, Hamad Khamis Al-Kubaisi, Mubarak Ajlan Al-Kuwari, Nasser bin Saleh bin Saud Al-Maawali, Rania Al-Mashat, Majed bin Mohammed Al-Mazyed, Mariam Al-Misnad, Khalid Mohammed Al-Naemi, Sultan Mohammed Al-Nuaimi, Mina Al-Oraibi, Jarrah Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Hussein Al-Salama, Asaad Hasan al-Shaibani, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani, Ali Al-Thawadi, Hamid Rashid Al-Zerjawi, Tunku Zain Al-‘Abidin, Reem Alabali Radovan, Abdulla Mohamed Alahmed, Jean-Paul Alary, José Manuel Albares Bueno, Jan Philipp Albrecht, Jasem Albudaiwi, Antanas Aleknavičius, Nawaf Alissa, Ilham Aliyev, Jónas G. Allansson, John R. Allen, Graham Allison, Dmitri Alperovitch, Henry Alt-Haaker, Muath Alwari, Kamal Amakrane, Daniiar Amangeldiev, Melanie Amann, Christiane Amanpour, Florian Amberg, Natalie Amiri-Dehadj, Yosef Amrani, Youssef Amrani, Matthias Amthor, Anita Anand, Jamil Anderlini, Elizabeth Andersen, Bill Anderson, Dagvin R. M. Anderson, Wendy R. Anderson, Magdalena Andersson, Arnoldo André Tinoco, Kerstin Andreae, José Andrés, Christian Angermayer, Niels Annen, Anousheh Ansari, Yassamin Ansari, Ivan Anušić, James Appathurai, David Appel, Anne Applebaum, Seif Aqel, John C. Aquilino, Paolo Ardoino, Fernando Arias González, Eldor Aripov, Nina M. Armagno, James Arroyo, Annabel Arthur, Dominik Asam, Josef Aschbacher, Michael Anthony Ashcroft, Catherine Ashton, Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Simone Askew, Maike Asmussen, Ana Paula Assis, Jurij Aston, Richard Atwood, Hans Christoph Atzpodien, Åsmund Grøver Aukrust, Tristan Aureau, Gert Auväärt, Mukhtar Babayev, Rüdiger Bachmann, Michael Backes, Yuriko Backes, Louis Bacon, Christian Nikolaus Badia, Dag Baehr, Urs Baertschi, Indrani Bagchi, Thomas Bagger, Andrew Bailey, Ted Bailey, Ylli Bajraktari, Vibeke Bak Solok, David Baker, Abdulla Balalaa, Bogdan Balasynovych, Ottilie Bälz, Gonzalo Bañez Villar, Dorothee Bär, Amir Baram, Michał Baranowski, Norman Barbosa, Mustafa Barghouti, Antonio Barroso, Jean-Noël Barrot, Hans-Peter Bartels, Antonia Barthel, Bernhard Bartsch, Nechirvan Idris Barzani, Jeremy B. Bash, Oliver Bäte, Olesia Batsman, Jean-Martin Bauer, Susanne Baumann, Michael Baumgartner, Serge Bavaud, Harmeet Bawa, Jan Bayer, Jeyhun Bayramov, Denis Bećirović, Douglas A. Beck, Jasmin Becker, Kai Beckmann, Nicola Beer, Britta Behrendt, Eric Beißwenger, Lisa Bembenick, Jenna Ben-Yehuda, Leila Benali, Aaron Beng, Yoshua Bengio, Daniel Benjamin, Thorsten Benner, Katrin Bennhold, Hildegard Bentele, Éric Béranger, Andreas Berger, Miguel Berger, Max Bergmann, Matthias Berninger, Christoph Bernstiel, Benedetta Berti, Xavier Bettel, Ricklef Beutin, John Bew, Peter Beyer, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, Martin Bialecki, Florian Bieberbach, Stephen Edward Biegun, Christophe Bigot, Carl Bildt, Marc Billeb, John Billow, Julius Maada Wonie Bio, Adrian Philip Bird, Marcell Biró, Vincent Biruta, Jonathan Black, Thomas Blades, Tony Blair, Jude Blanchette, Timo Gerrit Alexander Blenk, Martin Blessing, Michael Bletsas, Andreas Block, Anne Blomberg, Nikolaus Blome, Linden Prause Blue, Inga Blum, Christian Blume, Richard Blumenthal, Christian Bock, André Bodemann, Adam Seth Boehler, Peter Michael Boehm, Damian Boeselager, Carl-Oskar Bohlin, Roland Böhm, Johannes Boie, Khadija Yasmin Bokhari, Catherine de Bolle, Philippe Bolopion, Nikolaus von Bomhard, Alexander Bonde, Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, Nazanin Boniadi, Emmanuel Bonne, Jason Bordoff, Federico Borello, Sascha Leopold Bosezky, Maka Botchorishvili, Alvin Botes, Massad Boulos, Hendrik Bourgeois, Steve Bowsher, Annie Wilcox Boyajian, Anu Bradford, Fiona Bradley, Hugh Brady, Reinhard Brandl, John Brandolino, Annika Brändström, Franziska Brantner, Scott W. Bray, Baiba Braže, Sandra Breka, Ruben Pieter Brekelmans, Ian Bremmer, Guido Brendler, Linda Breu, Carsten Breuer, Murray Brewster, Remigijus Bridikis, Michael Bröcker, Anja Brockmann, Jan Brorhilker, Chris Brose, Daniel Brössler, William Browder, James Gordon Brown, Carol Ann Browne, Desmond Browne, Dylan Browne, Matt Browne, Richard Browne, Christian Bruch, Agnieszka Brugger, Gunnar C. Brügner, Magnus Brunner, Saskia Bruysten, Borys Budka, Kęstutis Budrys, Svend Buhl, Erhard Bühler, Tobias Bunde, Brian Burch, Emma Burrows, Nikolas Busse, Liam Byrne, Thomas Byrne, Piotr A. Błazeusz, Sean Cairncross, Levent Çakıroğlu, Agnès Callamard, Nadia Calviño, Elizabeth E. Cameron, James Camille, Alastair John Campbell, Fabrizio Campelli, Cao Yanzhong, Giovanni Caravelli, Dan Carden, Hector Cárdenas Suárez, Robert Cardillo, Anders Carp, Peter Carstens, Kevin Casas-Zamora, Stephan-Andreas Casdorff, Ignazio Cassis, Esperanza Casteleiro Llamazares, Zamir Nicholas Catsaras, Andrea Catsimatidis, David M. Cattler, Anna Cavazzini, Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, Christopher G. Cavoli, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Ted Chaiban, Malcolm Chalmers, Oleksandr Chalyi, Adam Chan, Chan Chun Sing, Jagan Chapagain, Samuel Charap, Xavier Chatel, Neil Chauhan, Christopher S. Chivvis, Derek Chollet, Eileen Chong Pei Shan, Iqra Choudhary, Wassim Chourbaji, Bogusław Chrabota, Mads Flarup Christensen, Gerd Chrzanowski, Nathalie Chuard, Jacobus Cilliers, Dan Cîmpean, Michael Claesson, Seán Clancy, Helen Clark, Adam Clink, Hillary R. 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Drezner, Katharina Dröge, Falko Droßmann, Nirut Duangpanya, Alexander Dubnitzki, Sorin Ducaru, Dorian Ducka, Michel Duclos, Florent Duleux, Fatuma Adan Dullo, Dianna Dunne, Kristina Dunz, Marko Đurić, Deborah Düring, Robert Dussey, Stéphane Dutron, Amer Ebied, Wolfgang Eckert, R. 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Narasimhan, Gitanas Nausėda, Yulia Navalnaya, Michael Needham, Sönke Neitzel, Jovita Neliupšienė, Brendan John Nelson, Jennifer Nelson, Zhanna Nemtsova, Ruhee Neog, Mona Neubaur, Hannah Neumann, Holger Neumann, Peter Neumann, Abraham L. Newman, Gavin Newsom, Tanoubi Ngangom, Nguyen Hung Son, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, Max Nielsen, Rolf Nikel, Thomas Nilsson, Sania Nishtar, Christian Nitsche, Rick Niu, Bastian Nominacher, Mohamed Khaled bin Nordin, Anatolie Nosatîi, Hanna Notte, Binaifer Nowrojee, Victoria Nuland, Anthony Nunan, Raja Dato' Nushirwan bin Zainal Abidin, Lana Nusseibeh, Michael O'Flaherty, Shannon O'Neil, David O'Sullivan, Meghan O'Sullivan, Ryan Oakes, René Obermann, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Enrique Javier Ochoa Martínez, Mustafa Odeh, Claudia Oeking, Janka Oertel, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Guillaume Ollagnier, Christian Ollig, Kajsa Ollongren, Hrvoje Omrčanin, Kubanychbek Omuraliev, Robert Ondrejcsák, Federica Onori, Chi Onwurah, Coen van Oostrom, Mabel van Oranje, Anita Orbán, Alexander Orellano, Peter R. Orszag, Bernhard Osburg, Kari Margrethe Osland, Florian Oßner, Thomas Hans Ossowski, Anastasiia Ostrovska, Henning Otte, Ann-Kristin Otto, Younes Ouaqasse, Ron O’Hanley, Sarah Pagung, Reza Pahlavi, Ben Palmer, Alexander S. Panas, Bojan Pancevski, Hayley Panetta, George A. Papandreou, Stavros Papastavrou, Armin Papperger, Gladden J. Pappin, Melissa Parke, Stephen Parker, Dariusz Parylak, Carlos Pascual, Priti Patel, Riccardo Paternò di Montecupo, Thomas Paulsen, Petr Pavel, Şafak Pavey, Stuart Peach, Markus Pertl, Nicolas Peter, Bernd Peters, Silvia Petig, Doug Petno, David H. Petraeus, Hanno Pevkur, Martin Pfister, Victor M. Pinchuk, Kati Piri, Katarzyna Pisarska, Boris Pistorius, Claudia Plattner, Andrej Plenković, Anton du Plessis, Marcus Pleyer, Jens Plötner, Tomáš Pojar, Alina Polyakova, Agnieszka Pomaska, Peter Pomerantsev, Daniel B. Poneman, Ilya Ponomarev, Pere Joan Pons Sampietro, Amy Pope, Joseph Popolo, Mihai Popșoi, Petro Poroshenko, Luciano Antonio Portolano, Thorsten Poschwatta, Marta Poslad, Vladimír Posolda, Oleksandr Potii, Natalia Pouzyreff, Jonathan Powell, Thomas Prefi, Markus Preiß, Axel Preiss, Carlos Alberto Presti, Viktor Prokopenya, Oleksandr Prokudin, Ron Prosor, Jana Puglierin, Michael Ward Punke, Purevsuren Lundeg, Andrew Puzder, Eva Quadbeck, Lia Quartapelle Procopio, Pablo Quirno Magrane, Christina Raab, Susanne Raab, Nico Raabe, Gideon Rachman, Antony David Radakin, Simon Radford, Anastasiia Radina, Karin Rådström, Manal Radwan, Kristi Raik, Marc Raimondi, Gina Raimondo, Luis Ramos, Roberta Randerath, Paulo Rangel, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Lars Løkke Rasmussen, Anna Rathert, Jeffrey D. Rathke, Helmut Rauch, Maminirina Ely Razafitombo, Ralph Regenvanu, Lars Reger, Katherina Reiche, Nicola Reindorp, Alexander Reinhardt, Markus Reinisch, Fred W. Reinke, Terry Reintke, Helmut Reisinger, Eivind Reiten, Dieter Reiter, Janusz Reiter, Odile Renaud-Basso, Andreas Renner, David Rennie, Gordon Repinski, Boris Rhein, Bryan Rich, Louise Mary Richardson, Nicolas Richter, Thomas Rid, Andreas Rinke, Edgars Rinkēvičs, Bradley Ritzel, Andrea Rizzi, Michael Robbins, Mary Robinson, Renato Rodrigues de Aguiar Freire, Alexander Hilton Rogers, Daniel Rogers, Michael S. Rogers, Sarah B. Rogers, Josh Rogin, Benjamin Rohé, Karl von Rohr, Kai Ronald Rohrschneider, Matthew Rojansky, Ulf-Jensen Röller, Rosalia Romaniec, Paul Ronzheimer, Jacky Rosen, Martina Rosenberg, Kaupo Rosin, Jessika Roswall, Hans Jörg Roth, Norbert Röttgen, Stefan Rouenhoff, Thomas Röwekamp, Michelle Rozo, Trudy Rubin, Marco Rubio, Laura Rudas, Kevin Rudd, Christopher Ruddy, Rainer Rudolph, Alice Rufo, Boris Ruge, Majda Ruge, William P. Ruger, Stuart J. Russell, Timothy Rutherford, Mark Rutte, John-Arne Røttingen, Amira Saber Qandil, Daniel Sachs, Matthias Sachs, Karim Sadjadpour, Murad Saeed, Styopa Safaryan, Christoph Safferling, Sodik Safoev, Abdulaziz Sager, Baxtiyor Odilovich Saidov, Borut Sajovic, Dovilė Šakalienė, Nawaf Salam, Vaidas Saldziunas, Oğuz Kaan Salıcı, Barham Ahmad Salih, Macky Sall, Aura Salla, Camilla Salthe, Bradley Chance Saltzman, Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, Pedro Arnulfo Sánchez Suárez, Stefan Sandborg, Nivine Sandouka, Maia Sandu, Tore Onshuus Sandvik, David E. Sanger, Giovanna Sangiorgi, Ana Miguel dos Santos, Juan Manuel Santos Calderón, Catarina dos Santos-Wintz, Samir Saran, Pushpendra Saroj, Jānis Sārts, Tsenguun Saruulsaikhan, Gwendolyn Sasse, Carl-Philipp Sassenrath, Erik Sauar, Frank Sauer, Anna Sauerbrey, Thomas Saueressig, Ian Saunders, Günter Sautter, Wael Sawan, Curtis Mike Scaparrotti, Marietje Schaake, Andreas Schaal, Georg F. W. Schaeffler, Holger Schäfer, Martin Schäfer, Sebastian Schäfer, Alexander Schallenberg, Irina Scherbakowa, Gundbert Scherf, Andreas Scheuer, Carsten Schicker, Andreas Schierenbeck, Nick Schifrin, Nicole Schilling, Robbie Schingler, Karl Schlögel, Oliver Schmelzer, Helga Maria Schmid, Nils Schmid, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Christian Schmidt, Eric Emerson Schmidt, Wolfgang Schmidt, Gregor Peter Schmitz, Carsten Schmitz-Hoffmann, Jean-Pierre Schnaubelt, Heike Schneeweis, Carsten Schneider, Patrick Schnieder, Maximilian Schöberl, Michael Schöllhorn, Helmut Schönenberger, Dick Schoof, Florian Schörghuber, Joachim Schranzhofer, Ben Schreer, Leon Amos Schreiber, Christopher M. Schroeder, Moritz Schularick, Ekaterina Schulmann, Teri Schultz, Björn F. Schulz, Katharina Schulze, Rolf Schumann, Wolfgang Schüssel, Michael Schwald, Jordan Schwartz, Andreas Schwarz, Katharina Maria Schwarz, Daniela Schwarzer, Christoph Schwegmann, Raphaela Schweiger, Klaus Schweinsberg, Christoph Schweizer, Thilo Schweizer, Audrey Scozzaro Ferrazzini, George Scutaru, Barre R. Seguin, Benedikta von Seherr-Thoß, Ulrich Seidenberger, Thomas Seifert, Radmila Šekerinska, Sinan Selen, Keith Self, Oleksiy Semeniy, Patrick Sensburg, Emanuele Serafini, Vance Serchuk, Robert Serry, Natia Seskuria, Leif Johan Sevland, Christian Sewing, Michael Sfraga, Rajiv Shah, Parviz Shahbazov, Jeanne Shaheen, Thomas J. Shattuck, Mark Shaw, Jaiveer Shergill, Hagar Shezaf, Jeff Shockey, Simon Shuster, Oleg Shymanskyi, Mike Sicilia, Monika Sie Dhian Ho, Sabine Siebold, Robert Sieger, Jacek Siewiera, Jozef Síkela, Radosław Sikorski, Erin Sikorsky, Laura Silber, Evika Siliņa, Kristen Silverberg, Brendan Simms, Stefan Simon, Mehmet Şimşek, Daleep Singh, Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi, Feridun Hadi Sinirlioğlu, Mindaugas Sinkevičius, Nirmala Sitharaman, Charles Sitzenstuhl, Miloš Šivara, Varun Sivaram, Carl Skau, Magdalena Skipper, Olof Skoog, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Amanda Sloat, Elissa Slotkin, Max Smeets, Herman Smetanin, Jeanna Smialek, Sven Geert Smit, Adam Smith, Bradford Lee Smith, Julianne Smith, Nate Soares, Markus Söder, Konstantin Sokolov, Benjamin Sokolowski, Paul Soler, Alexander Sollfrank, Andrew Sollinger, Evan Solomon, Vera Songwe, Alexander Soros, Ana Corina Sosa Machado, Jens Spahn, Despina Spanou, Elisa Spiropali, Carsten Spohr, Mirjana Spoljaric Egger, Kristen Sproat, Andris Sprūds, Wolf-Jürgen Stahl, Georg Nikolaus Stamatelopoulos, Mathias Stamm, Brad Staples, Holger Stark, Keir Starmer, Nemanja Starović, Alissa Starzak, Olha Stefanishyna, Achim Steiner, Gabor Steingart, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Sirið Stenberg, Nils Andreas Stensønes, Maram Stern, Mallory Stewart, Roderick James Nugent Stewart, Eduards Stiprais, Christian Stocker, Camilla Stoltenberg, Jens Stoltenberg, Jan Stöß, Callahan Stoub, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann, Jörg Stratmann, Ulrike Strauss, Michal Strnad, Jaroslav Strnad Jr., Jarosław Stróżyk, Alexander Stubb, John Studzinski, Oliver Stuenkel, Jonas Gahr Støre, Melody Sucharewicz, Katrin Suder, Dubravka Šuica, Orkhan Sultanov, Sun Chenghao, Rishi Sunak, Ganbyamba Sunrev, Monika Sus, Tobias Süß, Oleksandr Sushko, Katherine Sutton, Mark Suzman, Keith Svendsen, Andrii Sybiha, Vitaliy Syzov, Michal Szczerba, Pawel Szota, Steen Søndergaard, Abdulkader Tahhan, Jim Taiclet, Antonio Tajani, Takasu Yukio, Bafel Jalal Talabani, Benjamin Tallis, Neera Tanden, Narendra Taneja, Liliana Tanguy, James Channing Tankersley, Vivian Tauschwitz, Julie Linn Teigland, Düzen Tekkal, Horst Teltschik, Élie Tenenbaum, Kazuo Teranishi, Manish Tewari, Günther Thallinger, Elmar Georg Theveßen, Julia Thiele-Schürhoff, Sabine Thillaye, Carsten Thoma, Chadwin Thomas, Troy Thomas, Vincent Thomassier, Heiko Thoms, Adam Thomson, Andrew Thomson, Tobias Thyberg, Nate Tibbits, Sergey Tihanovski, Teija Tiilikainen, Thomas Roland Tillis, Galina Timchenko, Maxim Timchenko, Nadine Timm, Gedion Timothewos, Eka Tkeshelashvili, Nathalie Tocci, Kiersten Todt, Sunniva Tofte, Oana-Silvia Țoiu, Helen Toner, Imma Tor Faus, Máximo Torero Cullen, Francisco Torres Figueras, Aminata Touré, Karamoko Jean-Marie Traoré, Rafał Trzaskowski, Margus Tsahkna, Matthias Tschöp, Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Symeon G. Tsomokos, Tom Tugendhat, Tytti Tuppurainen, Danilo Türk, Volker Türk, Patrick Turner, Donald Franciszek Tusk, Fenny Mbahimwa Tutjavi, Daniel Twining, Joe Ucuzoglu, Rebecca Ulam Weiner, Lisa Marie Ullrich, Rustem Umerov, Ineza Umuhoza, Valdecy Urquiza, Oleksandra Ustinova, Justin Vaïsse, Javlon Vakhabov, Sanam Vakil, Sanjar Valiev, Elina Valtonen, Matthijs van Amelsfort, Elisabeth van der Gulik, Beth Van Duyne, Luuk van Middelaar, David van Weel, Wouter van wersch, Pierre Vandier, Frederik Vansina, Róbert Vass, Charles Vaughan, Marc Veasey, Daniela Vega Lira, Pirro Vengu, Richard Verma, Michael Vetter, Kerstin Vieregge, Maximilian Viessmann, Vijavat Isarabhakdi, Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio-Mapy, Leslie Vinjamuri, Henna Virkkunen, Ambika Vishwanath, Gabriel Vlase, Alisa Vogt, Kurt Volker, Marja-Liisa Völlers, Alexander Staljewitsch Voloshin, Ursula von der Leyen, Gabriel von Mitschke-Collande, Friederike von Tiesenhausen, Peter Vorhofer, Johann Voss, Rutger Vrijen, Aleksandar Vučić, Detlef Wächter, Johann Wadephul, Robin Wagener, Mustakim Waid, Bryce Wakefield, Matt Waldman, Dustin Walker, Kent Walker, Ben Wallace, Celeste A. Wallander, Bridget Walsh, Christoph Walther, Michael Waltz, Wang Huiyao, Wang Yi, Wang Yiwei, Max M. Warburg, Melanie Ward, Nina Warken, Mark R. Warner, Annette Weber, Manfred Weber, René Weber, Tanisha Webster-Stevens, Anja Wehler-Schöck, Kenneth R. Weinstein, Moritz Weiss, Sven Weizenegger, Jennifer Welch, Peter Welch, Jennifer Welsh, Clemens Wergin, Frank Günter Wetzel, Hubert Wetzel, Matthew Whitaker, Katie White, Sheldon Whitehouse, Sam Whitlam, Gretchen Whitmer, Wendi Whitmore, Kai Whittaker, Meredith Whittaker, Roger F. Wicker, Jasper Wieck, Wolfgang Wien, Katja Wiesbrock Donovan, Anna Wieslander, Marc Wietfeld, Michael Wiggers Hyldgaard, Boudewijn Wijnands, Richard Wilcox, Todd Wilcox, Karsten Wildberger, Daniel F. Wilhelm, Anne Will, Michael J. Williams, Joe Wilson, Stephen Wilson, Elana Wilson Rowe, Andreas Wimmer, Lars Windhorst, Stefan B. Wintels, Ralf Wintergerst, Patrick Wintour, Philipp Wolff, Cornelia Woll, Ngaire Woods, Christine Wormuth, Wojciech Wrochna, Michelle Wu, Wu Shicun, Julian Wucherpfennig, Hendrik Wüst, André Wüstner, Amos Yadlin, Maha Yahya, Yan Yinghua, Sara-Sumie Yang, Yuan Yang, Yasin Yaqubie, Keren Yarhi-Milo, Lisa Yasko, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, George Yin, Yoshida Tomoyuki, Glenn Youngkin, Roger Zakheim, Hossam Zaki, Paweł Zalewski, Paolo Zampolli, Atanas Zaprianov, Lee Zeldin, Krystyna Zeleniuk, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Lassina Zerbo, Jeromin Zettelmeyer, Zhang Xiaoyan, Zhou Bo, Ihor Zhovkva, Min Zhu, Zhu Feng, Marat Zhumabayev, Kristen Ziccarelli, Shaya Mohsin Zindani, Oliver Zipse, Marta Zuluaga Zilbermann, Jaromír Zůna, Egils Zviedris

The 2026 Munich Security Conference took place from 13-15 February.[1]

Own words

As the leading forum for international security policy, the MSC 2026 enabled once again high-level debates on the key foreign and security policy challenges of our time.[2] Discussion points include[3]:

  • Breaking Point: The International Order Between Reform and Destruction
  • Raw Power: The Geopolitics of Resources
  • Europeans Assemble! Reclaiming Agency in a Rougher World
  • The European Dream(s): Defending Core Values Under Pressure
  • Under Reconstruction: A World Order for the Next Generation
  • No Silver Warhead: Europe’s Nuclear Options
  • Mushrooming: Tackling Growing Nuclear-Proliferation Risks
  • Debt Crisis
  • Tariff-fying Times: Managing the Weaponization of Trade
  • War of Nutrition: Resilience Against Food Weaponization
  • A Peacekeeper’s Guide to the Galaxy? Relaunching Space Governance
  • Life Under Destruction: Building-Blocks for a New Gaza
  • Maritime Security
  • The Invisible Frontline: Closing Gaps in Global Biosecurity
  • On Thin Ice: Jointly Navigating Arctic Security
  • Arctic Security
  • Playing With Fire: The Need for Decisive Climate Action
  • Point of Return: Reengaging with the Sahel
  • Three Years of Devastation: Ending the War in Sudan
  • Destructive Ambiguity: Deterring and Countering Hybrid Warfare
  • Vox Populi? Responding to the Rise of Populism
  • The State of Russia (no Russians invited to the panel)
  • Outsmarting Ourselves? Risks and Rewards of the AI Race
  • Locking Arms: Strengthening Defense Industrial Cooperation
  • Security Guarantees for Ukraine
  • Coalition of the Able? Securing Long-Term Support for Ukraine
  • Holding the Line: Defending Europe and Supporting Ukraine
  • Breaking or Repeating the Cycle? Iran's Next Chapter (no Iranians invited to the panel)
  • Breaking (With) the Past: Seismic Shifts in US Foreign Policy
  • The Geopolitics of Water
  • Belarus (no Belarusians invited, only the puppet Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya)
  • On Par? Fortifying the Foundation of Transatlantic Security
  • Open Corridor Policy? Deepening Trans-Caspian Cooperation
  • Decent Peace? The U.S. in the Indo-Pacific
  • Japan in the World
  • Double Trouble? Europe, the Indo-Pacific, and Connected Security Challenges
  • Keeping It Together? Syria's Post-Revolution Future
  • Venezuela (no Venezuelans invited, only a virtual speech by the puppet Maria Corina Machado)
  • Transatlantic Cooperation from the Bottom Up
  • The West-West Divide: What Remains of Common Values (no one from the East invited)

European "autonomy"

Panel discussion with Gretchen Whitmer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Matthew Whitaker, and Francine Lacqua at the MSC Townhall

The US Ambassador to NATO Matthew Whitaker described how

We still love [you]. You're still allies, but we want you to grow and become what you can become. It doesn't mean we're severing the relationship. We're not asking for European autonomy. We're asking for European strength, that you are equally as strong as the United States, that you're still great allies, that our bonds are still close, that we just expect you to do more, and to not be independent. I think that's the problem; just because you're strong doesn't mean you're independent. In fact, the the the the interconnectedness is more important.[4]

The independent journalist Nel Bonilla said that "The MSC 2026 celebrated the deepening of Europe's structural dependence on the United States, which is now being openly expressed as a program. The supposed drifting apart is in reality a functional division of labor within a common transatlantic 'bunker'. In other words, it is a security architecture that gives Europe more mass, but no sovereignty; more responsibility, but no autonomy. So we are experiencing an even deeper, almost irreversible fusion into a transatlantic war architecture, in which Europe provides the muscles (troops, logistics, arms spending), while the brain (command, strategy, nuclear escalation control) remains firmly in Washington."[5]

Military-industrial complex

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz delivered a speech promising to make Germany - again - the strongest army in Europe

US Senator Lindsey Graham described how "We're going to sell it [weapons to Ukraine]. You [Europe] are going to buy it. What what I want to do is make them the most lethal force on Europe in perpetuity until Russia changes."[6]

The Blackrock lobbyist installed as German Chancellor, Friedrich Merz, described how "we are strengthening the eastern flank of NATO. For this purpose, our brigade is being created in Lithuania – the first time in the history of the Bundeswehr that an entire large-scale unit is being set up outside our own territory", and how ""We will make the Bundeswehr the strongest conventional army in Europe as soon as possible; an army that will stand firm if it has to." "

In addition, Merz promised to suppress "internal enemies": "We protect our liberal-democratic basic order against its enemies inside and outside. Among other things, we will strengthen our intelligence agencies."[7][8]

The French Senator Hélène Conway-Mouret planned how "we need to convince our populations that it is absolutely essential to invest in defense and spend less in education in social issues"[9]

Transatlantic narrow focus

Alexandrer Neu observed that "Although representatives of non-Western countries were and are also invited to participate and discuss, these were always only necessarily tolerated guests. The representatives of China, Russia, Iran, Serbia and other countries were offered discussion rooms and accepted by them. But it was striking – at least during my eight years - a recurring phenomenon: when a Western representative, especially an American representative, gave a speech, the large hall was filled to the maximum. When a representative of a non-Western country gave a speech, the hall sometimes was half-empty. A high-ranking Chinese or Russian speaker quite objectively perceptibly did not receive the attention that a Western European or American speaker received. This phenomenon says a lot about the participants' understanding of politics: they wanted to be among themselves. An invitation and a contribution from non-Western representatives were accepted willingly in order to maintain the external image of the MSC, but they really did not want to listen or pay attention."[10]

Indoctrination of deep state functionaries

Nel Bonilla also described how

The MSC is often understood as a forum of open dialogue. But in fact, nowadays it resembles a hermetically sealed resonance room in which a transatlantic elite synchronizes their worldview. Here people with similar social positions, career paths and the same institutional obligations meet in order not to question their view of the world, but to align it. The MSC is a place of elitist self-assurance, where the limits of the conceivable are reproduced and cemented.

The absent are as important as the ones present. In the halls one searches in vain for voices arguing for demilitarization, for non-alignment, for a security architecture beyond NATO. What is circulating are threat analyses, capability gaps, deterrence logics. What is not circulating are alternative security concepts or critical questions about NATO's role in the production of the threats it claims to be fighting.

The young civil servants who are traveling to Munich for the first time this year, are going through an initiation in which they learn what the current positions are. Above all, they learn how to speak, think and ascend in this world. You will find out who belongs to it and who does not. They internalize the dichotomy that determines who "we" are and who is the "enemy" (or at least "rival").[5]

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Known Participants

532 of the 1886 participants already have pages here:

ParticipantDescription
Huma AbedinHillary Clinton's "right-hand woman", 7th floor group, kept Hillary posted about Laura Silsby. Exposed after her emails were recovered by the FBI during a probe about her husband's sexting minors.
Ahmed Aboul-GheitEgyptian diplomat with an MSC habit
Paul AchleitnerAustrian banker businessman with deep state connections.
Timothy Adams
Noubar AfeyanUS businessman, inventor, and philanthropist
Ravi AgrawalIndian journalist and television producer with an MSC/WEF meeting habit
Henrik Ahlers
Thomas AhrenkielDouble Bilderberg Danish govt spook, Director of Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste. Suspended in 2020 for spying on the Danish Intelligence Supervision Commission on behalf of the NSA.
Ilse AignerGerman politician
Hulusi Akar29th chief of the Turkish General Staff.
Erik AkerboomSenior Dutch spook
Ebtesam Al-Ketbi
Rania Al-Mashat
Mina Al-OraibiIraqi journalist, WEF YGL 2009
Ilham AliyevPresident of Azerbaijan since 2003.
John AllenA Retired US Marine Corps 4 star General
Graham AllisonAttended the Bilderberg in 2007 after a 33 year break. First attended, as a speaker, in 1970, aged 30. Multiple deep state connections.
Dmitri AlperovitchSpooky businessman
Christiane AmanpourUK/Iranian journalist on CNN, uncritically promoted COVID-19 vaccine uptake
Anita AnandCanadian politician and academic
Jamil AnderliniCorporate journalist with long China experience. Attended Bilderberg/2024, where one of the subjects was China. WEF/YGL.
Magdalena AnderssonAttended the 2016 Bilderberg as Swedish finance minister. Supporter of the Great Reset who was briefly Prime Minister of Sweden.
José AndrésSpanish-American chef and restaurateur with ties to the US deep state
Christian AngermayerWEF YGL 2011 billionaire who visited mutiple WEF AGMs, then MSCs
Niels AnnenGerman politician who attends a lot of spooky conferences
Anousheh AnsariWEF GLT 2002, WEF YGL 2007 Iranian born US engineer and businesswoman
James AppathuraiNATO apparatchik who attended Bilderberg/2024
Anne ApplebaumUS/Polish DSA, Integrity Initiative/Cluster/UK/Inner Core, claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't a major news story.
James ArroyoDitchley governor
Josef AschbacherEuropean Space Agency/Director General 2021-
Cathryn Clüver Ashbrook
Catherine AshtonA woman with zero qualification or experience of foreign affairs who, in 2009, was made 'High representative for Foreign Affairs and Security policy' in a deal which finally recognised that the position was NOT going to be given to Tony Blair
Ana Paula Assisbusinessperson
Jurij Aston
Tristan Aureau
Philippe De BackerBelgian politician
Louis BaconUS hedge fund manager
Christian Nikolaus BadiaWent to his first MSC in 2019
Thomas BaggerECFR member, MSC regular
Michał BaranowskiGMF Warsaw Office
Mustafa BarghoutiFive-pillar alternative approach for Palestine
Jean-Noël BarrotFrench politician
Hans-Peter BartelsGerman SPD politician, regular at the MSC
Susanne BaumannECFR, picked up an MSC habit in 2019
Kai BeckmannMSC habit
Zanny Minton BeddoesFinancial journalist, Bilderberger, IMF economist under Jeffrey Sachs
Yoshua BengioDeep learning and Artificial Intelligence expert who attended the 2016 Bilderberg
Daniel BenjaminCenter for Strategic and International Studies, Refugees International, "Coordinator for Counterterrorism"
Thorsten BennerSeveral MSC visits
Katrin BennholdNew York Times international reporter
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