A Strategic Compass for the EU
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A Strategic Compass for the EU
The Strategic Compass provides greater direction and a common vision for the EU's efforts in security and defence in the 5 to 10 years to come.
A quantum leap forward.
- An uncertain global order
- Threat Analysis
- EU Strategic Compass
- Strategy - Action Plan
Goals
Partner against common threats
Invest in capabilities and technologies
Act quickly and decisively in times of crisis
Secure against threats and protect EU citizens
FOUR PILLARS
PARTNER:
- More tailor-made approaches in security and defence
- Enhanced cooperation with the UN, NATO, the OSCE(1), the AU(2) and ASEAN(3)
- A new security and defence partnerships forum to bring together multilateral, regional and bilateral partners
INVEST
- A renewed focus on the joint development of next generation capabilities
- Additional incentives to stimulate Member States’ collaborative investments in joint projects and procurements
- Creation of a Defence Innovation Hub in the European Defence Agency
- An exchange on Member States' national objectives on increased and improved defence spending
ACT
- 5000: troops to form a European Union Rapid Deployment Capacity
- 200: fully equipped CSDP(4) mission experts to be deployed within 30 days, including in complex environment
- Regular exercises to further strengthen mutual assistance in case of an armed aggression
- A new action plan on military mobility
SECURE
- A revised EU threat analysis by the end of 2022
- A new EU Hybrid Toolbox for the coordinated response to hybrid campaigns
- A new EU space strategy for security and defence
- A strengthened EU Satellite Centre to boost the EU's autonomous geo-spatial intelligence capacity
- Securing access to strategic domains: high seas, outer space, cyber space and air
Outer space:
- Full use of the Galileo global positioning system and the Copernicus observation capacities in support of CSDP missions and operations
- An EU capacity in space for secure governmental satellite communications
Air domain: ensure the safe and secure European access to airspace
Cyber space:
- Protect and defend EU forces & military infrastructure against cyberattacks
- A further development of the EU Cyber Defence Policy
Maritime security: increase EU’s naval presence within and beyond the EU
High seas:
- Strengthen and expand the EU's naval operations
- Expand the Coordinated Maritime Presences concept to other areas
(1) OSCE Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe; (2) AU African Union; (3) ASEAN Association of Southeast Asian Nations; (4) CSDP Common Security and Defence Policy