On February 17, 2023, the Middle East and North Africa Department of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) hosted for the first time a roundtable discussion at the MSC premises in the Bayerischer Hof as part of the Munich Security Conference (MSC). The invitation of the KAS Chairman, former Bundestag President Professor Norbert Lammert, to an evening event on the topic "A New Club Méditerranée? The Eastern Mediterranean from Rivalry to Rapprochement" was accepted by high-ranking decision makers from politics, military, diplomacy and think tanks from Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel and Egypt as well as from numerous European states.