The garrison commanders from the seven EU member states Germany, Slovenia, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Austria came to the control center of Austrian Power Grid (APG) in Vienna Favoriten for an exchange of information as part of their three-day conference on cooperation between the capital city commands as part of the “Capital Command Cooperation”.
The focus was on topics relating to infrastructure security, such as the protection of critical infrastructures, cooperation in the event of crises, energy industry challenges and practical examples of cooperation between critical infrastructures and the military. “The basic idea of the cooperation is the exchange of opinions and experiences, mutual learning,” says Brigadier Wagner about the purpose of the 30-year partnership.
APG company spokesman Christoph Schuh emphasized: “For APG, the cooperation with the Armed Forces and the Ministry of Defense is of particular importance to APG. Be it in the areas of crisis prevention, corporate security, research and development or also in the area of property protection. This is one of the reasons why APG has had a special partnership with the Armed Forces Base Command since 2010 and a cooperation agreement with the Austrian Armed Forces since 2022.”
About the “Capital Commanders Conference” in Vienna
The annual Capital Command Cooperation Conference took place from May 14 to 16. The delegations, consisting of the garrison commanders and military experts from the capital cities of Berlin, Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Prague, Warsaw and Vienna, met at the Maria Theresa Barracks in Vienna. Topics of the conference included civil-military cooperation and the role of the capital city commands in crisis management as well as military national defense. The commanders of the garrisons were also able to define future plans and exchange valuable experiences in order to make operations, such as the protection of critical infrastructure, even more efficient in the future.
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