Hybrid warfare and the protection of the EU’s territorial integrity and critical security and defence infrastructure

Tabled by Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Gerolf Annemans, Barbara Bonte, Tom Vandendriessche, Antonín Staněk, Vilis Krištopans, Tiago Moreira de Sá, António Tânger Corrêa, Tamás Deutsch, Csaba Dömötör, Viktória Ferenc, Kinga Gál, Enikő Győri, András Gyürk, György Hölvényi, András László, Pál Szekeres, Ernő Schaller-Baross, Annamária Vicsek, Christophe Bay, Marie-Luce Brasier-Clain, Valérie Deloge, Mélanie Disdier, Jean-Paul Garraud, Catherine Griset, Fabrice Leggeri, Philippe Olivier, Gilles Pennelle, Pascale Piera, Pierre Pimpie, Julie Rechagneux, André Rougé, Alexandre Varaut, Séverine Werbrouck, Mathilde Androuët, Jordan Bardella, Laurent Castillo, Marie Dauchy, Anne-Sophie Frigout, France Jamet, Thierry Mariani, Aleksandar Nikolic, Pierre-Romain Thionnet, Matthieu Valet, Afroditi Latinopoulou, Elisabeth Dieringer, Roman Haider, Gerald Hauser, Georg Mayer, Petra Steger, Harald Vilimsky, Mieke Andriese, Rachel Blom, Ton Diepeveen, Marieke Ehlers, Sebastian Kruis, Virginie Joron, Mireia Borrás Pabón, Juan Carlos Girauta Vidal, Jorge Martín Frías, Margarita de la Pisa Carrión, Hermann Tertsch, Majbritt Birkholm, Julien Leonardelli, Paolo Borchia, Susanna Ceccardi, Anna Maria Cisint, Aldo Patriciello, Silvia Sardone, Raffaele Stancanelli, Isabella Tovaglieri, Anna Bryłka, Jaroslav Bžoch, Klara Dostalova, Jaroslav Knot, Ondřej Knotek, Tomáš Kubín, Jana Nagyová, Jaroslava Pokorná Jermanová, Rody Tolassy

Added: 64b. Expresses its utmost concern at the events of 30 and 31 July 2026 in Ceuta, a Spanish city forming part of the EU’s external border; notes with grave concern the findings of a report by the intelligence unit of the Spanish National Police responsible for immigration and border matters, submitted to the competent judicial authority, according to which the mass breach of the Spanish and EU external border was not a spontaneous migratory event but a planned operation, carried out under the pretence of a migration crisis; stresses the need to recognise the deliberate instrumentalisation of illegal immigration by non-EU state actors for the purpose of overwhelming a Member State’s border control capacity as a particularly serious form of hybrid operation against its sovereignty, security and territorial integrity; calls on the Commission, the Council and the High Representative to assess without delay the findings of the Spanish authorities and, should they be confirmed, to adopt appropriate diplomatic, financial and restrictive measures against those responsible;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE788.240