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Integrated Resolve 2026: the EU crisis management exercise

This dossier follows the Integrated Resolve 2026 crisis management exercise, its objectives, national participation and publicly released lessons. It distinguishes simulated scenarios from real crises and intended capabilities from assessed results.

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European flags outside Commission headquarters in Brussels, archive photograph from 2010.
Archive institutional illustration: the Berlaymont in Brussels, 18 May 2010. This photograph does not show the Integrated Resolve exercise. Leandro Neumann Ciuffo, CC BY 2.0. — Leandro Neumann Ciuffo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/. Archives du 18 mai 2010, sans modification.

Where things stand

As of 19 October 2026, the Commission announces the start of Integrated Resolve, scheduled to run until 20 November. Hungary had announced participation in the command-post exercise without troop movements. The consulted sources do not yet establish overall results.

Reported information

EU announces start of Integrated Resolve 2026 crisis exercise

The European Commission announced on 19 October 2026 the start of the Integrated Resolve crisis management exercise, scheduled to run until 20 November. It is intended to test the Union’s response to hybrid crisis scenarios inside and outside its territory.

European flags outside Commission headquarters in Brussels, archive photograph from 2010.
Archive institutional illustration: the Berlaymont in Brussels, 18 May 2010. This photograph does not show the Integrated Resolve exercise. Leandro Neumann Ciuffo, CC BY 2.0. — Leandro Neumann Ciuffo / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/. Archives du 18 mai 2010, sans modification.

The Commission’s civil protection department presents the exercise as a way to practise response mechanisms and coordination with international partners. That stated purpose is not an assessment of capabilities actually demonstrated.

In a Hungarian-language account published on 17 October, Hungary’s Defence Ministry had announced its participation and the same dates. It describes a command-post exercise without troop movements, involving cooperation with NATO headquarters in Brussels.

The announced start therefore concerns an institutional simulation. The consulted sources do not yet provide an overall assessment or validated lessons from this edition.

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