Expanding the EU’s Security Perimeter: Critical Infrastructure as Strategic Assets
What this report establishes
“Expanding the EU’s Security Perimeter: Critical Infrastructure as Strategic Assets” is a sourced, structured Defence Finance Monitor analysis, closed on 20 November 2025. It establishes what is at stake, who the actors are and what it means for European defence funding and industry — drawn only from primary and official sources. This page summarises what the 32-page report determines; the figures, the evidence and the conclusions are in the report itself.
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Key questions this report answers
- How is the EU redefining energy grids, transport networks and digital infrastructure as strategic security assets?
- How do resilience, deterrence and strategic autonomy reshape the criteria for what counts as security-critical infrastructure?
- Which industrial actors, funding flows and capital markets are affected by the expanded security perimeter?
- How are EU-level and national policies aligned or in tension over financing security-critical infrastructure?
Inside this report
- Broadening the Concept of Security
- Energy Infrastructure as Part of the Security Perimeter
- Transport Networks as Security and Defence Enablers
- Digital Networks and Communications as Security Pillars
- Resilience, Deterrence, and Strategic Autonomy: New Criteria for Security
- Industrial Demand and Capacity under the Expanded Security Perimeter
- Public Investment Geography: Redirecting Funds to Security-Critical Infrastructu
- EU-Level vs National Policies: Alignment and Tensions
- Implications for European and Allied Industrial Actors
- Capital Markets and Financing: The Security-Infrastructure Nexus
- Critical Infrastructure and Strategic Autonomy in Defence Context
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This report is built only from primary and official sources, cited in the document as of 20 November 2025 — 5 distinct sources including consilium.europa.eu, critical-entities-resilience-directive.com, darktrace.com, osw.waw.pl, reuters.com. The source material itself is in the report, not on this page.
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