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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 […]

German chancellor Olaf Scholz reiterated his call for the country to relax its strict spending rules, pushing for Germany’s constitutional debt brake to be reformed immediately after national elections later this month. “We need a reform of the debt brake in our constitution directly after the upcoming election,” Scholz told the Munich Security Conference on […]

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 — Senator Mark Warner has a blunt assessment of the Democratic Party’s struggles in the wake of its crushing losses in the […]

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 […]

A federal judge on Saturday issued a sweeping block on most Trump administration officials — including Elon Musk and his allies — from accessing sensitive Treasury records for at least a week while legal proceedings play out in New York. Manhattan-based U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer issued the middle-of-the-night order after an emergency request by 19 Democratic […]

Le destin de la mission historique de l’Europe en matière de climat et celui de son cordon sanitaire contre l’extrême droite sont désormais liés. Les tentatives de l’Europe pour relancer son industrie en déclin ont donné naissance à un attelage hétéroclite mais résolu d’intérêts économiques, de leaders politiques centristes et de responsables d’extrême droite, qui […]

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. […]