Extraordinary EU Support for Eastern Border Regions
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What this report covers
Countries: Ukraine. A sourced, structured 5-page analysis for European defence and dual-use decision-makers, from the DFM research desk and built on official and primary sources.
About this report
The amended cohesion regulation devotes particular attention to the Union’s eastern border regions neighbouring Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Recital (7) recognises their “unique security challenges and geopolitical significance” and states that reinforcing local defence capabilities and civil preparedness in these areas is “essential not only to deter external aggression and safeguard European security, but also to support regional development, social cohesion, employment and living conditions.”
This marks a shift in the rationale for cohesion funding: border regions are no longer treated solely as disadvantaged territories requiring economic convergence, but as strategic buffers whose…
Key questions this report answers
- How does Recital (7) of the amended cohesion regulation redefine the EU's eastern border regions from disadvantaged territories into strategic buffers against Russia, Belarus and Ukraine?
- What specific local defence capabilities and civil preparedness measures does the regulation authorise cohesion funding to reinforce in these frontier regions?
- How does linking security objectives to regional development, employment and social cohesion change the eligibility and rationale for cohesion spending?
- What execution and absorption risks arise when border regions must simultaneously deliver deterrence and economic convergence outcomes from the same funding stream?
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