Policy Briefing — European Commission unveils 2020–2025 EU Security Union Strategy

Executive briefing: The Commission’s Security Union Strategy outlines a five-year plan to protect critical infrastructure, combat terrorism, and raise cyber resilience, committing to new legislation on critical entities, stronger Europol mandates, and harmonised cyber crisis response.^{COM(2020) 605 final §§1–3}

Programme steps

• Map critical dependencies. Align asset inventories to the forthcoming Critical Entities Resilience directive and the NIS framework to evidence continuity planning and supply-chain oversight.
• Embed threat intelligence sharing. Prepare processes for EU-level cyber crisis coordination and trusted CSIRT exchanges highlighted in the strategy’s resilience pillar.
• Update law-enforcement engagement. Coordinate with legal teams on the planned Europol mandate expansion and cross-border digital evidence access pathways flagged for legislative action.

Sources

• Communication on the EU Security Union Strategy
• Security Union Strategy Q&A

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