7 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2019/2136(INI)
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that at a moment when competing powers are increasingly challenging the rules-based global order, we, as Europeans, must defend multilateralism, international law, democracy and human rights; stresses that, in order to retain credibility as bearer of such values, the European Union must act coherently with its principles;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that the European Union needs to take on a global leadershipmore proactive role and unlock its political potential to think and act like a geopolitical power while defending and promoting its common values and interests in the world; reaffirms the need to secure ‘EU strategic autonomy’; fully supports the Commission President’s decision to transform the EU’s executive branch into a ‘geopolitical commission’;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that the European Union needs to be able to react to crises more rapidly and effectively and; to this end, it should put a greater emphasis on preventing conflicts at an early stageby addressing the deep roots of instabilities and creating instruments to cope with them;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Recalls that soft power is the greatest instrument of foreign and security policy of the European Union and what makes it unique in the international scenario; it reiterates, in this respect, the need to pursue a "more for more" and "less for less" approach to its Neighbourhood and Enlargement Policies; it further underlines the importance of the Enlargement Policy as the EU's propulsive force and reiterates the need for it to be ambitious and credible;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. BWelieves thatcomes a debate on the use of qualified majority voting (QMV) could make the EU’s foreign and security policy more effective and would speed up the decision-making processto speed up the decision-making process in the area of foreign and security policy; calls on the Council to make regular use of QMV in the cases envisaged in Article 31(2) of the TEU and calls on the European Council to take up this initiative by makingevaluate the use of the ‘passerelle clause’ contained in Article 31(3) of the TEU; encourages the Council to consider extending QMV to other areas of the CFSP;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Welcomes the decision of the President of the Commission to build, within five years, a genuine European Defence Union; believes that the optimal way to do it is by making best use of the already existing mechanisisms and instruments, such as Military Mobility and the EDF; calls for the necessity of the creation, in conjunction to the European Defence Union, of a mechanism for democratic scrutiny and accountability;