At the Munich Security Conference there is a lot of discussion about old means of power such as ships, tanks and missiles, but little about the danger of cyber attacks. That would be more important today than ever.
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Andrian Kreye
There were enough reasons not to talk about digital space at the Munich Security Conference. The Pandemic. The unfortunate photo of the very masculine luncheon of business leaders. And then of course the mood. It was “the conference where the elephant refuses to be in the room,” described MEP Hannah Neumann. Or, as another participant put it: “With so much steel on site, nobody thinks about data.” Which is why the questions on the “geopolitics of the European digital space” were discussed just a few hundred meters away from the conference in the BMW Foundation pavilion. On the last day of the session, when the reports for the Sunday programs had already been shot and the editorials for the Monday papers had already been written.