US EditionEU Unveils €100 Billion Military Schengen Zone Plan by 2027
The EU aims to cut border permit times from up to 45 days to three days in peacetime, investing €100 billion to upgrade transport infrastructure and streamline military logistics.
- Yesterday, Brussels unveiled a plan to set up an EU-wide Military Mobility Area by the end of 2027, aiming for a 'military Schengen' across regulations and infrastructure.
- Amid the war in Ukraine, EU member states face delays up to 45 days for military transport permits, prompting a plan to cut red tape and harmonise national laws and bureaucracy.
- The package would create the European Military Mobility Enhanced Response System, set three-day and six-hour cross-border targets, fast-track permits, end annual renewals, and establish a transport group with a national coordinator, solidarity pool, and mobility catalogue.
- Funding-Wise, the plan would require 100 billion euros, but only 1.7 billion was earmarked in the current multiannual budget, and the proposed budget is 17.65 billion euros for 500 projects.
- The proposal also positions the EU to integrate Ukraine and Moldova and invest in critical choke points, while NATO urges more legislative power and counts 23 members' spending toward alliance targets.
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The European Commission (EC) has unveiled a military mobility package aimed at making it easier to deploy troops, tanks, and equipment across the European Union’s 27 member states, in what it describes as a step toward a “Military Schengen.” The plans, announced on Nov. 19, are part of efforts to ensure that Europe is ready to defend itself by 2030 and reflect the EU’s other military ambitions, which aim to increase defense spending and develop …
The Commission prepares new rules for the rapid movement (maximum three days) of troops and crawls between the countries of the Schengen area. Once a symbol of peace.... ...There are many things that mark the EU and its historic integration, but two fully express its soul: Erasmus and Schengen. It is little responsible to put at risk the freedom of movement of Europeans. Signed Sergio Mattarella. Running the year 2018 and Austria in agreement wi…
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