Russia-Ukraine: Critical Infrastructure Protection from Sabotage is an Unprecedented Challenge the EU must Face now Russia-Ukraine: Critical Infrastructure Protection from Sabotage is an Unprecedented Challenge the EU must Face now

Here, Frank Umbach at EUCERS, University of Bonn explains why the EU must now make “Critical Infrastructure Protection” a priority. He lays out the events that brought us here, namely Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines, undersea cables, and targeted surveillance of European infrastructure. Russia is blamed as the culprit, and Umbach points at the response of the U.S., China and India to show the global implications of Europe’s security. A coordinated and robust response at both the EU and the national level is essential, says Umbach, not least because more than 80 percent of Europe’s critical infrastructure is in the hands of private companies.