Expanding the EU’s Security Perimeter: Critical Infrastructure as Strategic Assets
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About this report
The European Union is redrawing the foundations of its security architecture. Energy grids, transport networks and digital infrastructures are no longer treated as technical systems, but as strategic assets whose stability shapes deterrence, autonomy and economic continuity.
Since 2022, this shift has moved critical infrastructures to the centre of EU security and defence planning, redefining what resilience means and determining where political attention, regulation and public funding are concentrated.
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
Who it's for
Strategy, corporate-development and investment teams that need an ecosystem-level view — budgets, industrial capacity and technology landscapes — before committing capital or capacity.
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