Women's Breakfast at the Munich security conference : Not on specific topics to narrow

In the courtyard of the Munich Residenz Parking early Saturday morning, a dark limousine, a red carpet is placed in front of the entrance to the Max-Joseph-Saal on the cobblestones. On Saturday morning, the "Women's Breakfast will take place at the Munich security conference traditionally", the Breakfast of the women. The pillars of the high hall are pink lights Cutlery on the tables and white cloths, flowers, heavy silver.

About 150 women came, Diplomats, journalists and Think-tank on the inside. Emily Haber, the German Ambassador in Washington and Green party leader Katrin Göring-Eckardt. There are considerably more than a decade ago, as the Breakfast has been created, says a veteran – also, if the safety meeting is still a very male Event.

At the lectern, the CDU-Boss Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. For many of the women from abroad this is a first curious glance, perhaps, the future Chancellor of Germany. And Kramp-Karrenbauer makes their job so well that you forget the Rest of the celebrities at the table in the middle for a Moment, almost. There is very straight - between the Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid and the canadian foreign Minister, Chrystia Freeland, Ivanka Trump, elegant translation headphones to one ear, nodding occasionally to what Kramp-Karrenbauer says.

today is the first and only Minister of the interior in Germany

perhaps The future German Chancellor speaks about foreign policy, but on women's policy. Women, this is their message, are once again in a crucial Phase, because they threaten the digitization passively through life rather than you. "If only men develop Algorithms, how to map a world that works for women," she says. It is important to bring girls and women with special speech to take up technical professions. "We must not allow ourselves to certain topics, fields narrow," she says – and again, that is until today the first and only Minister of the interior in Germany.

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Kramp order-Karrenbauer once again makes it clear that they would stand for a more aggressive women's policy as Angela Merkel. It is in favour of quotas, and says of himself: "I am proud to be a quota woman." We need to use political instruments to women. On demand, she suggests, you could imagine the women's quota for Supervisory boards is also on the boards of Directors to extend. "We will always try to convince by arguments, but eventually, one is also faced with the question of whether or not you have some rules in the law."

Kramp-Karrenbauer: "We should help each other"

And yet another important message has to Kramp-Karrenbauer: The importance of women's networks. "We should help each other", she calls the influence of women in the room.

Chrystia Freeland and Ivanka Trump answer with short Statements. At the end of has been said about foreign policy as much as anything. Also Freeland stresses that it is still, of course, to have children and a career (the canadian foreign Minister, has two daughters and a son), the experience of their daughters. Technology could, however, have the "empowering" – and it was only because they allowed women to work in the early morning and late in the evening. Interestingly, Ivanka Trump, which emphasizes the role of women for the foreign policy it is, namely that the empowerment of women has a pacifying effect in regions of conflict, she cited the study location.

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But what counts for Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer at the end, is that you could win the sympathies of those present. And that's pretty sure.