The European Union has announced its plans to implement a Military Schengen in Europe as part of the Military Mobility Package announced today. NATO’s mobility plans across Europe are outdated and overlaid by bureaucratic processes and the EU is currently addressing this security gap.
4 military corridors have been identified in Europe with up to 500 gaps and vulnerabilities. The EU and member-states will be co-jointly funding up to €100 billion to address these gaps which will be fully addressed by the end of this decade. These gaps mostly involve infrastructural issues meaning that the EU-members will be updating major infrastructure which has dual military and civilian use. SEF and Cohesion Funds will be used for these plans.
The EU will also introduce a new mechanism to speed up the approval process to move troops across borders in times of crisis. The EU will not be disclosing details about works involved in these gaps due to their military sensitivity. Commissioner Andrius Kubilius however mentioned the Baltic States, Germany and France as part of these corridors.
The plans were announced by Vice-President Commissioner and High Representative Kaja Kallas, Defence Commissioner Andrius Kubilius, and Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for Technological Sovereignty Henna Virkkunen.
The press conference can be watched here.
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