February 15, 2025

Europe is facing an “existential” moment in its history and must take a bold and united stand when it comes to guaranteeing Ukraine’s future security, regional foreign ministers told the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

“This is an existential moment and it’s a moment where Europe has to stand up,” Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock told the audience on Saturday as she took part in a panel entitled ‘Europole? The Old Continent’s New Geopolitical Role,’ moderated by CNBC’s Silvia Amaro.

“Our answer to others’ [policy of] ‘My Nation First’ is ‘Europe United,’ and this is what we show here on the panel, this is what we have shown in the last couple of days — that we made clear there will not be any peace in Europe if it’s not a European peace,” she said.

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