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The speech to listen to at Munich was von der Leyen's, not Rubio's

The EU Commission President put forward her most ambitious proposal yet

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Latika M Bourke
Feb 16, 2026
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Munich: The spectacle of seemingly grateful European leaders leaping to their feet to applaud Marco Rubio for being slightly nicer to them at the Munich Security Conference this year was embarrassing.

They looked like victims trapped in a coercive relationship. But the image was only part of the story.

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