Skip to content
REPORT (2025/2090(INI))

On military mobility

A-10-2025-0242

Committee on Security and Defence Committee on Transport and Tourism · Rapporteur: Petras Auštrevičius, Roberts Zīle

Official HTML ↗ PDF DOCX
✦ In shortFull textProcedure & committee votes
✦ In short · AI summary of this text, generated 4 Sept 2026

Written by a language model from the full text only; every figure comes from the text. The paragraph links open the paragraph a statement rests on — check the text itself before relying on it.

This resolution addresses military mobility in the EU, urging action on funding, infrastructure, and procedures to enable rapid cross-border movement of troops and equipment. It calls for increased investment, simplified rules, a 'military Schengen area', and enhanced EU-NATO cooperation, while highlighting the need to upgrade transport corridors and protect critical infrastructure.

Committee position. The committees propose a resolution calling for urgent action on military mobility, including increased funding, simplified procedures, and enhanced cooperation with NATO.

Key points

  1. Underlines the urgency of military mobility due to Russia's war against Ukraine and calls for lessons to be drawn from it.
  2. Calls for continued and increased EU funding for military mobility, including at least EUR 17 billion under the next MFF, and criticizes past cuts.
  3. Reiterates calls for a 'military Schengen area' and demands full implementation of the 13 commitments of the Military Mobility Pledge 2024.
  4. Urges the Commission to present a legal framework for crisis situations, distinguishing peacetime, crisis, and wartime phases, and to establish a military mobility taskforce.
  5. Calls for upgrading infrastructure along the four priority military mobility corridors, including rail, road, ports, and logistics hubs, and for addressing bottlenecks.
  6. Highlights the need for rail interoperability, including addressing track gauge differences and rolling stock shortages, and supports projects like Rail Baltica.
  7. Calls for enhanced cybersecurity and protection of critical transport infrastructure against hybrid threats, including jamming and spoofing of navigation systems.
  8. Stresses the importance of EU-NATO cooperation, including joint exercises, information sharing, and alignment of military requirements.
  9. Calls for extending military mobility corridors to Ukraine, Moldova, and the Western Balkans, and for supporting partners against hybrid threats.
  10. Emphasizes the need for a European preference principle in defence investments and for stronger screening of foreign direct investment.
  11. Calls for measures to address fuel supply and energy resilience for military mobility, including reviewing the Oil Stocks Directive.
  12. Urges the development of capabilities such as strategic airlift, medical evacuation, and autonomous vehicles, and the creation of a civil-military 'solidarity pool' for transport assets.

Who is affected

  • EU member states, particularly those on the eastern flank, are called to upgrade infrastructure and streamline procedures.
  • Transport operators and workers are recognized as crucial, with calls to address labour shortages and improve conditions.
  • Port authorities and infrastructure managers are urged to cooperate with military authorities and enhance security.
  • NATO and partner countries like Ukraine and Moldova are targeted for enhanced cooperation and interoperability.

Figures and deadlines

  • Over EUR 50 billion for transport under CEF for 2028-2034, including over EUR 17 billion for military mobility.
  • At least EUR 100 billion needed to address 500 hotspots.
  • EUR 845 billion total investment needed for TEN-T core and extended core network over 15 years.
  • At least EUR 210 billion remaining for projects with highest EU added value.
  • More than 94 % of the four priority corridors are part of TEN-T.
  • NATO's operational-level planning timeline is three days.
  • Three to five-day objective for border crossing and permitting procedures.
  • 24 hours for rapid reaction units in crisis situations.

Legal basis: Titles VI and XVI of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and Title V of the Treaty on European Union.