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Expanding the EU’s Security Perimeter: Critical Infrastructure as Strategic Assets
How is the EU redefining energy grids, transport networks and digital infrastructure as strategic security assets?
Expanding the EU’s Security Perimeter: Critical Infrastructure as Strategic Assets: The European Union is redrawing. Defence-finance analysis; 32-page sourced…
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Original DFM publication · DFM Analysis report · 2025-11-20
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.
This analysis 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?
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Expanding the EU’s Security Perimeter: Critical Infrastructure as Strategic Assets
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What is Expanding the EU’s Security Perimeter: Critical Infrastructure as Strategic Assets?
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.
Why does Expanding the EU’s Security Perimeter: Critical Infrastructure as Strategic Assets matter for European defence?
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…
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