{"id":2159,"date":"2025-02-08T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2025-02-08T16:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T16:27:54","slug":"nato-troops-unable-to-move-quickly-across-eu-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/nato-troops-unable-to-move-quickly-across-eu-report\/","title":{"rendered":"NATO troops unable to move quickly across EU \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bureaucratic hurdles and logistical chaos are crippling \u201cmilitary mobility,\u201d the European Court of Auditors has said<\/strong><\/p>\n

The EU would be unable to move a major military force within the bloc\u2019s territory in case of need, a recent report by its financial watchdog stated this week. Bureaucratic hurdles and chaotic logistical planning would prevent a swift deployment, the European Court of Auditors (ECA) concluded in the document<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Brussels has already spent all of its budget allocated for improving military logistics between 2021 and 2027 without achieving the stated goal of \u201cmoving military staff, equipment, and supplies swiftly and seamlessly,\u201d<\/em> the ECA said in a statement accompanying the report.<\/p>\n

Funding worth \u20ac1.7 billion ($1.76 billion) was spent in just two years and no money was \u201cleft in the pot by the end of 2023,\u201d<\/em> the report said, adding that organizing military movements within the bloc could still face \u201csignificant delays.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Member states still need to file a notification of cross-border movement 45 days in advance in order to get authorization, according to the paper. One nation\u2019s tanks can also be outright banned from crossing into the territory of a neighboring EU member simply because they are heavier than allowed by the neighbor\u2019s road traffic regulations, the report said. Military logistics directions can also include infrastructure like bridges that are not suitable for heavy equipment, requiring armor to take a major detour, it added.<\/p>\n

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The ECA blamed the chaotic planning and management structure for the setbacks. \u201cGovernance arrangements for military mobility in the EU are complex and fragmented, without a single point of contact, which makes it difficult to know who does what,\u201d<\/em> it said.<\/p>\n

With the allocated military mobility budget spent, there will be \u201ca significant gap of over four years\u201d<\/em> before any more funds will be available, it warned. \u201cProjects were funded mainly in the east of the EU, but the bloc hardly funded any projects at all on the southern route towards Ukraine\u201d<\/em> the watchdog said.<\/p>\n

The ECA \u2013 an independent auditing body with a college consisting of individual members assigned by each EU member state \u2013 has been critical of Brussels\u2019 defense policy initiatives over the past several years.<\/p>\n

In 2024, it warned<\/a> that the European Defense Industry Program could fail to reach its goals despite a \u20ac1.5 billion budget due to a poor balance between policy objectives, funding, and the timeline for implementation. The program could result in resources \u201cspread across a wide array of projects that may not have a measurable impact at EU level,\u201d<\/em> it said.<\/p>\n

In 2023, it stated that the EU was lacking<\/a> a long-time strategy on defense spending, while also warning later the same year that financial assistance to Kiev could add tens of billions of euros to the bloc\u2019s debt due to Ukraine potentially being unable to repay its loans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bureaucratic hurdles and logistical chaos are crippling \u201cmilitary mobility,\u201d the European Court of Auditors has said The EU would be unable to move a major military force within the bloc\u2019s territory in case of need, a recent report by its financial watchdog stated this week. Bureaucratic hurdles and chaotic logistical planning would prevent a swift…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2162,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2162"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/developeternal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}