7 Amendments of Charlie WEIMERS related to 2019/2028(BUD)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes with concern the decrease of over EUR 1 billion in commitment appropriations for Heading 4 (Global Europe), which would result in a budget for external action lower than during any of the three preceding years; believes that in the current international context, the EU needs to assume more, not less responsibility and that it must be endowed withRecalls that as one of the largest contributors to the EU prepares to leave and in line with the time tested principle of living within your means the European Parliament welcomes the ndecessary financial resources in order to be able to do so; calls for the margin of over EUR 200 million in Heading 4 to be allocatedrease of over EUR 1 billion in commitment appropriations for Heading 4 (Global Europe);
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Notes with concern the findings of Bishop of Truro’s Independent Review for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office which concluded that persecution of Christians is reaching near genocidal levels;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Notes with concern the lack of focus under Heading 4 (Global Europe) on protecting the largest persecuted religious minority in the world: Christians;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Instructs the Commission to focus appropriations on Humanitarian Aid Relief under Heading 4 (Global Europe) in order to aid persecuted Christian communities in need;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates its view that thejects funding of the administrative and operating expenditures of the European Defence Agency and of permanent structured cooperation from the Union budget is the only option under the Treaties; notes that defence is an exclusive national competence.
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Thanks the American taxpayer for subsidising the defence budgets of EU Member States who enjoy the protection of the US-lead NATO nuclear umbrella.