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DRAFT REPORT (2025/2165(INI))

On the implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025

SEDE-PR-776984

Committee on Security and Defence · Rapporteur: Thijs Reuten

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This draft report on the implementation of the common security and defence policy (CSDP) for 2025 assesses the deteriorating security environment and calls for urgent action to strengthen European defence. It urges the EU to close capability gaps, increase defence spending efficiency, support Ukraine, reinforce CSDP missions, and enhance cooperation with NATO and like-minded partners. The report stresses the need for political unity, a genuine European Defence Union, and stronger parliamentary oversight of defence policies.

Committee position. The rapporteur proposes a resolution that assesses the security environment and calls for concrete actions to strengthen CSDP, including capability development, political unity, and institutional reforms.

Key points

  1. Condemns Russia's aggression and hybrid warfare against Ukraine, Moldova, and others; supports Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.
  2. Calls for action against Russia's shadow fleet, enhanced Arctic surveillance, and protection of critical infrastructure.
  3. Urges development of air and missile defence, artillery, drones, AI, quantum, cyber capabilities, and strategic enablers, including through European Defence Projects of Common Interest.
  4. Calls for a single market for defence, removal of barriers, and European preference in procurement, while ensuring stock replenishment.
  5. Urges support for Ukraine's defence industry and integration into the European defence technological and industrial base.
  6. Calls for a European financial architecture for defence and a multiannual financial framework enabling a genuine European Defence Union.
  7. Stresses the need to revise the EU's Strategic Compass and invest in intelligence sharing and security.
  8. Calls for reinforcing CSDP missions with flexible mandates, adequate funding, and better staffing; commends EUMAM, EUAM, EUPM Moldova, EUMM, and EUMA.
  9. Recommends full manning of EUFOR ALTHEA's reserve forces and supports its deterrent role; notes EUPOL COPPS and EUBAM Rafah can support Palestinian state-building.
  10. Calls for proposals on European defence education and training, and for stronger cooperation with candidate countries aligning with CFSP above 80%.
  11. Urges defining procedures for Article 42(7) TEU, moving to qualified majority voting, and exploring operational PESCO under Article 42(6) TEU.
  12. Calls for strengthening Parliament's oversight role in defence, with the Committee on Security and Defence leading.

Who is affected

  • EU member states: urged to increase defence spending efficiency, collaborate, and implement CSDP fully.
  • European defence industry: called to benefit from a single market and increased investment.
  • CSDP missions and operations: to receive reinforced mandates and funding.
  • Ukraine: support for its defence capabilities and industry integration.
  • NATO: cooperation to be streamlined, with EU aligning to its standards.

Figures and deadlines

  • 80%: threshold for candidate countries' alignment with CFSP for stronger military-security cooperation.

Legal basis: Title V of the Treaty on European Union, in particular provisions on the common security and defence policy.