EU states to have three days to allow troop transit under new 'Military Schengen' system

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : The plan envisages a new European military mobility enhanced response system modelled on the EU's Civil Protection Mechanism, which enables member states to quickly secure assistance when reeling from natural or man-made disasters.
56% : BRUSSELS -- EU member states will have just three days in peacetime and six hours in emergencies to allow other European military troops and equipment to cross their borders under a new "military Schengen" proposal from the European Commission designed to significantly improve military mobility across the bloc.
51% : " Tzitzikostas estimates that €100 billion will be needed to do this work, but the EU has so far earmarked a mere €1.7 billion for military mobility in the current multiannual budget that ends in 2027, an amount the commissioner described as "a drop in the ocean".
51% : EU member states, most of which are also in NATO, will also be able to count these investments towards their alliance's new bumper spending target.
47% : It is the latest in a series of plans released by the European Commission since the beginning of the year to substantially bolster the EU's defence before the end of the decade - by which time, some intelligence agencies believe, Russia could have the means to attack another European country.
46% : Currently, the rules across the 27 member states are not harmonised, with some taking weeks to reply to a request from another EU country to move troops and/or equipment on their soil.

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