Vice President Vance will have his first international tour next week

The Washington Post reported that Vice President J.D. Vance will travel to Europe next week, in what will be his first international tour as the White House's No. 2. The newspaper detailed that Vance will initially travel to France to attend the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris, which will take place at the Grand Palais museum in the French capital on Feb. 10-11. Subsequently, the vice president will travel to the German city of Munich to take part in the Security Conference, an event that will begin on Feb. 14 and culminate on Feb. 16.

The news about his first trip abroad comes just hours after the vice president visited the town of East Palestine, Ohio, on the second anniversary of the fatal train derailment that killed seven people. At a press conference, Vance assured that the Norfolk Southern railroad company will be held accountable for the accident and will have to fulfill its promise to pay compensation and create training centers.

The Action Summit will be held in the midst of artificial intelligence week. In recent months, both Vance and other members of the Trump administration have made their opinion on this technology clear, asserting that regulations can be detrimental to its development.

The trip to the Security Conference in Germany will be of utmost importance for the vice president and President Donald Trump's administration, not only because it is an event focused on international security policies, but also because it will be the first meeting between the new U.S. administration and several of the most important political figures in European foreign policy.