Overview
- Mayor Michelle Wu will travel to Germany this weekend to speak Saturday at the Munich Security Conference on a leadership and diplomacy panel with Warsaw’s Rafal Trzaskowski and Kyiv’s Vitali Klitschko, who is expected to participate virtually.
- Conference organizers and local reports describe the session as the event’s first all-mayor discussion, and Wu is the first American mayor invited to the annual gathering.
- The Alliance for Local Leaders International is covering travel costs for Wu and two aides and is facilitating the mayoral discussion.
- Wu plans to announce that Boston has joined the Pact of Free Cities, according to her office.
- Her office highlights meetings with government and business leaders during the trip as part of an expanding international profile for Boston’s city hall, with coverage noting a tense U.S.–Europe backdrop following President Trump’s Greenland remarks.