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MILITARY MOBILITY

WHAT IS MILITARY MOBILITY ABOUT?
Military Mobility is an EU initiative to ensure swift and seamless movement of military personnel, materiel and assets –
including at short notice and at large scale – within and beyond the EU. It aims to create a well-connected network, with
shorter reaction times, and secure and resilient infrastructure.
The Action Plan on Military Mobility (2022-2026):

Investing in dual- Accelerating, Strengthening the Enhancing cooperation
use transport digitalising and preparedness and with NATO and key
infrastructure along streamlining national resilience of transport partners.
the trans-European procedures and infrastructure.
transport network. processes.

WHY IS MILITARY MOBILITY VITAL FOR OUR SECURITY IN AN UNSTABLE WORLD?

It enables the military of It facilitates the It helps the Member States It increases synergies not
the Member States to react improvement of transport to remove the delays only with existing Union
faster and more effectively infrastructure such as roads, when granting national policies but also with
to crises erupting at the EU’s railways, water ways and permissions for military partners and Allies, including
external borders and beyond, airports that are used by transits across their borders, NATO, to ensure our efforts
whether for EU operations both civilian and military and other ways to harmonise, are aligned.
or deployments in other users, to avoid bottlenecks streamline and digitalise
multilateral frameworks for large-scale movements procedures so that we can
such as NATO. due to insufficient height react faster.
or load capacity of bridges
and railways, for example.

Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine calls for urgent measures to ensure swift military movements within
the EU to enable our armed forces to respond quickly to threats or emergencies, and move military aid swiftly.

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