The mood at this year’s Munich Security Conference (MSC), an annual who’s who of Europe’s defence VCs, founders and politicians, was different. There was a “very anti-US vibe,” Mikołaj Firlej, cofounder of defence VC Expeditions, tells Sifted.
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