Not just an addendum: Making resilience a key pillar of Europe’s defence
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Mon, 07/06/2026 – 09:15
10 minutes
Emphasis on resilience has been growing in Europe since the illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014 and the Covid-19 pandemic. Ukraine’s response to Russian aggression has highlighted the importance of well-prepared and resilient citizens as a key component of deterrence. The growing hybrid attacks and large-scale operations targeting Europe(1) over the past four years have underscored the increasingly blurred line between military and civilian threats. They have included sabotage causing hundreds of millions of euros in physical damage, a wide array of information manipulation operations, including AI-enhanced campaigns, waves of bomb threats against public institutions, and drone incursions into the airspace of several EU Member States(2). Together, these incidents have underlined the importance of bolstering resilience across sectors and at all levels of society.
Over the past few years, Europeans have taken concrete steps to strengthen resilience. They have built shelters, developed alert systems, and conducted crisis exercises to operationalise Article 42.7 TEU, the mutual assistance …read more
