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Live coverage from Munich: POLITICO is on the ground at the Munich Security Conference, where we’re having conversations with top officials, lawmakers and experts at our POLITICO Pub. Follow our exclusive coverage here. MUNICH — JD Vance’s fiery speech at the Munich Security Conference — part of his multi-day debut on the world stage as U.S. […]

An American was arrested in Russia last week after airport security found cannabis gummies in his luggage. The 28-year-old man, who arrived from Istanbul, was detained at Moscow’s Vnukovo International Airport on Feb. 7, according to Russian state media, after a sniffer dog discovered the contraband. The man — who was not named in state media […]

JD Vance met Friday with the leader of the far-right German political party being boosted by Elon Musk, according to a person familiar with the meeting granted anonymity to discuss the vice president’s schedule. Vance was in Munich for a security conference, where earlier in the day he had blasted Europe over immigration and censorship of […]

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni stood by earlier comments from the country’s president likening modern day Russia to Nazi Germany, adding the Kremlin had offended “the entire Italian nation” after a spokesperson blasted the comparison on Friday. President Sergio Mattarella drew a parallel between the “wars of aggression” that prompted World War II and the […]

The war in Ukraine could turn into the European Union’s “Afghanistan,” a grinding and costly engagement with “no way out,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán claimed Friday. Speaking to former Fox News host Tucker Carlson at a media event in Dubai, Orbán noted the hundreds of billions of euros in aid the EU has spent […]

Live coverage from Munich: POLITICO is on the ground at the Munich Security Conference, where we’re having conversations with top officials, lawmakers and experts at our POLITICO Pub. Follow our exclusive coverage here. MUNICH — Senior Trump administration officials are heading to Saudi Arabia to start peace talks with Russian and Ukrainian negotiators, according to a […]

President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that he is in “no rush” to speak with Chinese leader Xi Jinping despite expectations they would meet the same day, as trade tensions increase after both countries imposed tariffs early in the morning. “We’ll speak to him at the appropriate time. I’m in no rush,” Trump told reporters […]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is making a diplomatic push to win over Donald Trump’s White House ahead of any negotiations with Russia, using Ukraine’s mineral wealth as leverage. “The coming weeks could be very busy in diplomacy,” said Zelenskyy in a post on Telegram late Saturday, adding that he valued “cooperation with President Trump.” The […]

Wolfgang Ischinger is a former German ambassador to the U.S. and the U.K. He is president of the Munich Security Conference Foundation, and chaired the Munich Security Conference from 2008 to 2022. He teaches at the Hertie School Berlin and the University of Tübingen. A sigh of relief was heard in Davos recently, when U.S. […]