The 61st Munich Security Conference (MSC 2025) is the annual meeting of the Munich Security Conference, taking place from 14 February to 16 February 2025 in Munich, Germany.

Background

One day before the event, a car attack took place in Munich that injured 36 people. The conference is taking place just over one week before the 2025 German federal election.

Attendees

Attendees of the conference included:

•  Ursula von der Leyen, Commission President
•  Roberta Metsola, President of European Parliment
•  Kaja Kallas, Vice-President of the European Commission
•  Mark Rutte, Secretary General

•  JD Vance, Vice President
•  Marco Rubio, Secretary of State
•  Lindsey Graham, Senator
•  Jeanne Shaheen, Senator
•  Sheldon Whitehouse, Senator
•  John Cornyn, Senator
•  Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President
•  Salome Zourabichvili, President
•  Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, Head of the United Transitional Cabinet of Belarus
•  Olaf Scholz, Chancellor
•  Frank-Walter Steinmeier, President
•  Annalena Baerbock, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs
•  Jörg Kukies, Federal Minister for Finance
•  Radosław Sikorski, Minister of Foreign Affairs
•  Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs
•  Wang Yi, Chinese Communist Party Politburo foreign chief and Foreign Minister
•  Cho Tae-yul, Minister of Foreign Affairs
•  Iwaya Takeshi, Minister of Foreign Affairs
•  John Healey, Defence Secretary
•  David Lammy, Foreign Secretary
•  Evika Siliņa, Prime Minister
•  John Mahama, President
•  Félix Tshisekedi, President
•  Téné Birahima Ouattara, Minister of Defense
•  Gideon Sa‘ar, Minister for Foreign Affairs
•  Gitanas Nausėda, President
•  Alar Karis, President
•  Jonas Gahr Støre, Prime Minister
•  Petr Pavel, President
•  Maria Malmer Stenergard, Minister for Foreign Affairs
•  Alexander Stubb, President
•  Elina Valtonen, Minister for Foreign Affairs
•  Andrej Plenković, Prime Minister
•  Kristrún Frostadóttir, Prime Minister
•  Edi Rama, Prime Minister
•  Hristijan Mickoski, Prime Minister