MIL-OSI Europe: Written question – Country Threat Assessment – E-002552/2025

Question for written answer  E-002552/2025
to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
Rule 144
Alexander Sell (ESN)

The European External Action Service provides a categorisation of the threat status of all states. The country threat assessment (CTA) categorises the threat status of countries as ‘low’, ‘moderate’, ‘significant’, ‘high’, and ‘critical’.

• 1.What specific data, and from which organisations, does the European External Action Service use to produce the CTA?
• 2.What assessment categories are there and how are the individual countries assigned to a category?
• 3.Since when and on what basis has the threat status of Germany been classified as ‘significant’ and what was the previous classification?

Submitted: 25.6.2025