4 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2021/2115(DEC)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the central role played by the European External Action Service (EEAS) in conducting the Union’s external policy and welcomes that it lived up to the many challenges over the 10 years of its existence; notes, however, that enhanced EEAS performance has to be underpinned by a corresponding staff increase;underlines the importance of the EEAS in ensuring the coherence of the Union’s foreign policy and notes that enhanced EEAS performance has to be underpinned by a corresponding staff increase; highlights the need to provide necessary resources for a successful implementation of our Common Foreign and Security Policy and Common Security and Defence Policy and calls for sufficient human resources to be made available in order to deliver on the Union’s external policy priorities;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes the remaining gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff, despite slightly positive trends in previous years; reiterates the importance of ensuring a balanced distribution of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at middle and senior management levels; points also to a remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalances; encourages EEAS to create and share guidelines on best practices on the conducting of recruitment procedures in order to ensure diversity, openness, fairness and transparency;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Repeats its call for a more dedicated review of the administrative expenditure and support activities of the EEAS and specifically on topics that are becoming of higher or even critical relevance for the EEAS; calls on the Court of Auditors to explore ways of providing more information on the administrative expenditure of other Union institutions in the context of the discharge.
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Calls on the EEAS to strengthen the Union Delegations engagement in our neighbourhood and particularly in the Western Balkan countries in order to provide a best possible assistance to the countries engaged in pro-democratic and pro-European reforms.