(Adnkronos) – Italy’s foreign minister Antonio Tajani is among over 1,000 guests including some 50 world leaders attending the Munich Security conference on Friday through Monday. Security, defence, global crises and the future of Europe’s relationship with the US amid frayed transatlantic ties are the event’s focus this year.
Italy’s defence minister Guido Crosetto is also attending the conference along with dozens of his international counterparts.
The war in Ukraine will be to the fore at the conference, and president Volodymyr Zelensky is due to attend, along with Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte and European Union Commission president Ursula con der Leyen.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio will lead a sizeable US delegation, to the conference, underlining the importance of transatlantic relations despite a “crisis of trust, according to former diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger, who chairs the forum.
The Munich Security Report 2026, which Ischinger unveiled earlier this week is entitled ‘Under Destruction’, referencing an attack on the international order by the policies US president Donald Trump’s administration and abrasive remarks about Europe made by Trump and other top US officials over the past year.
“A wrecking-ball is currently smashing what would normally be part of a stable international order,” Ischinger told a press conference in Berlin.
