Munich conference on security policy

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Munich conference 2024

Welcome

With more than participants, some 50 Heads of State and Government, over Ministers, as well as representatives of think-tanks, NGOs and businesses, the Munich Security Conference (MSC) is one of the world’s most important meetings for the security policy community. Each year, the participants gather at the Bayerischer Hof hotel to discuss the main challenges to global security.

“Engage and interact with each other: Don’t lecture or ignore one another” – this “Munich Rule” will be the common thread running through the Munich Security Conference this year, too. In other words, the idea is to talk to one another and learn from one another, instead of talking about each other.

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The Conference was first held in and for the first few decades was known as the Wehrkundetagung.

Back then, it was a much smaller affair, attended by only a few dozen participants. Although even in the early days the meeting was designed as an international conference, its aim and object was to g