El poder ejecutivo de la Uni\u00f3n Europea (UE) se ha comprometido a intensificar su contribuci\u00f3n a la defensa haciendo de la movilidad militar y la resiliencia cibern\u00e9tica las piedras angulares de un paquete de seguridad recientemente publicado. El nuevo Plan de Acci\u00f3n sobre Movilidad Militar 2.0, como se le conoce m\u00e1s formalmente , se extiende hasta 2026. “No hay defensa europea sin defensa cibern\u00e9tica”, dijo Margrethe Vestager, vicepresidenta ejecutiva de la Comisi\u00f3n Europea.<\/p>\n
DUBLIN \u2014 The executive branch of the\u00a0European Union (EU)<\/a>\u00a0has committed to \u201cstepping up its contribution\u201d to defense by making military mobility and cyber resilience cornerstones of a newly released security package.<\/p>\n Upon unveiling the package on Nov. 10 the European Commission said that an \u201caction plan\u201d had been\u00a0prompted by Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine and recent cyber attacks on strategic infrastructure.<\/p>\n Military mobility<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 a term referring to efforts to make it easier for the military of one nation to cross borders quickly to support another nation in times of peril \u2014 has been a focus for the EU and, to a lesser extent, NATO, ever since Russia\u2019s invasion of Crimea in 2014. It has both a logistical part (making sure rail systems and roads could support the weight of tanks, for example) and a legal part, to ensure that forces aren\u2019t being held up at border crossings due to paperwork.<\/p>\n The new Action Plan on Military Mobility 2.0 \u2014 as it is\u00a0more formally known<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 runs until 2026 and includes six key measures:<\/p>\n These efforts \u201cmust not be blocked over bureaucracy or a lack of adapted infrastructure,\u201d said Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission, in a speech announcing the defense package. She vowed to digitalize \u201cprocedures\u201d to make them more reliable and capable of accelerating military mobility issues.<\/p>\n Vestager was also explicit about the dramatic shift in threats faced by European defense, focusing predominately on \u201cmalicious actions in cyberspace\u201d from state and non-state actors.\u00a0\u201cSo today, there is no European defense without\u00a0cyber defense<\/a>,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s why\u2026 the EU cyber defense policy, steps-up our ability to protect both our military and civilian assets from cyberattacks,\u201d Vestager\u00a0 continued.\u00a0\u201cWe have seen it with the Russian attack on Viasat satellites. Those satellites provide high-speed broadband to both commercial and military customers. So obviously, one can deeply affect military forces by attacking civilian infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n\n