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                            S TR ATE G I C  CO M PA S S







         A STRATEGIC COMPASS FOR SECURITY AND DEFENCE
         The EU needs to become a stronger and more capable actor in security and defence: both to protect the security of its
         citizens and to act in crisis situations that affect the EU’s values and interests. With the Strategic Compass adopted in
         March 2022, Member States have agreed on a common strategic vision for the EU’s role in security and defence and have
         committed to a set of concrete and wide-ranging objectives to achieve these goals in the coming 5-10 years.

                                     Europe  must  learn  to  speak  the  language  of
                                 power. Over the next decade, we will make a quantum
                                 leap to become a more assertive and decisive security
                                 provider, better prepared to tackle present and future
                                 threats and challenges."

                                 JOSEP BORRELL
                                 High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy/
                                 Vice-President of the European Commission
         The world we face
         A  common  strategic  vision  requires  a  shared  understanding  of  the  threats  and  challenges  the  EU  will  face  in  the
         foreseeable future. The EU’s first- ever comprehensive threat analysis, presented in November 2022, was an important
         basis for starting the work on the Strategic Compass. The Compass acknowledges that the Russian military aggression
         against Ukraine constitutes a tectonic shift in European history. Overall, the Compass describes a European and global
         security landscape that is more volatile, complex and fragmented than ever due to multi-layered threats.





           Global level            Regional level           Threats against the EU
           Principles of effective   Traditional military threats and   State and non-state actors
           multilateralism questioned growing   armed aggression, destabilising   targeting the EU with hybrid tools,
           economic and political rivalry   interference/actions of state and   including the misuse of disruptive
           between global powers, climate   non-state actors, conflict, state   technologies, cyber-attacks,
           change, competition for resources,   fragility, and inter-state tensions   disinformation, and other non-
           instrumentalisation of irregular   and external influences.  military sources of malign influence,
           migration, and threats to the                    and terrorism.
           multilateral system.













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