15 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2021/2232(INI)
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas China’s rapid military build-up, coupled with its increasingly assertive behaviour in the Indo-Pacific region and its military activities in the East and South China Seas, as well as its deliberate and repetitive violations of Taiwan’s air defence identification zone and its increasingly aggressive rhetoric and media campaigns, are leading to rising tensions in the Indo-Pacific; whereas the actions orchestrated by Beijing to undermine Hong Kong’s independence and autonomy represent another factor undermining security and stability in the Indo-Pacific region;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the recently adopted EU strategy for cooperation in the Indo- Pacific; recognises the added value of the strategy as the first foundation stone of the EU’s united approach to the region, and praises the inclusive and multifaceted nature of the strategy and the inclusion of security and defence as one of its seven priority areas; calls for the EU to use the strategy as a tool to effectively assert its presence and influence in the region through furthering strategic ties and deepening cooperation on security- and defence-related matters with regional countries and organisations; believes that increased EU engagement in the region would contribute to regional security, and help overcome regional tensions and create more balanced relations among regional players; recalls that the strategy is a Team Europe project; reaffirms its commitment to work closely with historical allies and like-minded organisations and individual countries such as NATO, the US and the UK;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the need to safeguard EU unity as a pre-condition to achieve the EU’s ambition of strategic sovereignty amid the increasing competition between the United States and China; recalls that the EU’s unified approach must be underpinned by a pragmatic and principled foreign and security policy; calls on the Member States who have already increased their naval presence in the Indo-Pacific (France, Germany, and the Netherlands) to coordinate their approach within EU fora;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the EU to make use offully exploit its reputation as a credible and reliable actor amid the growing geopolitical competition between global and regional powers in the Indo-Pacific; recalls that the added value of EU engagement in the Indo-Pacific lies in its comprehensive range of civilian and military assistance measures, includingstarting from well developed non-military contributions; recalls that the EU has a vast network of diplomatic assets to facilitate dialogue on conflict-resolution, legal solutions and expertise in setting up confidence-building measures;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Expresses deep concerns about China’s rapid military build-up, including its test of a hypersonic missile, and its increasingly assertive behaviour, which aims, among other things, to advance its territorial claims in the East and South China Seas; highlights that security hotspots and unresolved issues, such as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s nuclear programme, the recent China-India border standoffs, the crackdown on democracy in Hong Kong, and threats posed by China to the territorial integrity of Taiwan, exert further strain on regional security and stability; highlights that the EU’s approach towards China must be unified, pragmatic, multifaceted and, principled, and concerted with other like- minded actors including cooperating on issues of shared interest, such as climate changethe fight against climate change or disarmament and non-proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destructions, on the one hand, and competing when it comes to providing economic, political and strategic alternatives to third countries, and confronting China on matters where our respective views diverge substantially, on the other hand;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the very timely new EU- US dialogue on China and the establishment of EU-US consultations on the Indo-Pacific, and calls for a coordinated approach towards strengthening multilateral institutions and regional organisations, promoting democracy and enhancing democratic resilience in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond; stresses the importance of an EU- NATO coordinated approach towards the Indo-Pacific region when it comes to issues relevant to the security and defence domain;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that the ongoing process of drafting the EU’s Strategic Compass should identify the Indo-Pacific as a region of key strategic interest for the EU, while also identifying the required capabilities; reaffirms that the findings of the Strategic Compass should be used as a baseline for a new revision of the Capability Development Plan, and that adequate funding are allocated to maritime projects of strategic relevance for the EU such as the development of the PESCO Project on the European Patrol Corvette;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for the EU to strengthen its dialogue with NATO’s four Asia-Pacific partners, namely Australia, Japan, the Republic of Korea and New Zealand, with a view to enhancing mutual situational awareness on security developments in the Euro-Atlantic and Indo-Pacific regions; invites NATO to use its 2030 reflection process to enhance cooperation with its partners in order to defend shared values, bolster resilience and uphold the international rules-based order, while ensuring greater consistency between policies on China; reaffirms that NATO and EU’s strategic reflections, namely the upcoming revision of the NATO Strategic Concept and the EU Strategic Compass, should be as aligned as possible on issues that affects both organisations’ interests, such as the stability of the Indo-Pacific region;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the ‘Enhancing Security Cooperation in and with Asia’ project; calls for the EU to further extend the project to other countries and to step up the deployment of military advisors to EU delegations to support its implementation; believes that regular exchanges and study trips for military officers should be reciprocally organised by the EU and the four Countries taking part in the initiative in order to facilitate mutual understanding, identify common challenges and foster a common strategic approach to the most pressing security issues;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Takes note of the on-going so called 'Quad Security Dialogue' among the US, Japan, India and Australia and their plan to jointly establish a rare earth procurement chain; stresses the strategic importance of rare earths, especially in the light of PCR accounting for almost 60% of the world’s total; calls on the EU to engage with the QUAD4 on issues of common interest such as climate change, technology or vaccines and notably on rare earth's procurement;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls for the EU and its Members States to step-up their own maritime capacities in the region in a coordinated way, including by exploring ways to ensure a permanent European naval presence in the Indian Ocean; stresses the need to increase the EU’s capacity as an effective maritime security provider; highlights the fact that France is the only Member State with a permanent military presence in the Indian Ocean; welcomes the fact that the Netherlands and Germany have sent frigates to the region; underlines that more such naval missions will be needed in the future; welcomes the joint naval exercises that EUNAFOR Atalanta has thus far undertaken with partner countries, and calls for the EU to consider expanding its geographical scope deeper into the Indian Ocean; invites the EU to establish a maritime area of interest in the Indo- Pacific with a view to extending its Coordinated Maritime Presences concept, building on the Member States’ individual assets; reaffirms that in-depth coordination and cooperation with NATO is essential to ensure efficiency and avoid duplications of EU and Member States’ commitment in the Indo-Pacific region;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Underlines the importance of information and cybersecurity as an element of the critical infrastructure of the global economy and for protecting democracies from disinformation and malicious attacks that can be orchestrated by State and non-State actors;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Welcomes the cooperation launched between the EU and a number of Indo-Pacific partners on cybersecurity and defence; calls for the EU to accelerate the establishment of an EU Cyber Diplomacy Network, aimed to promote cybersecurity norms, open and secure access to the cyberspace, and legal frameworks in the region;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Highlights that the fight against violent extremism is of shared interest to the EU and Indo-Pacific countries, as well as to the international community at large; highlights the need to further promote cooperation between Europol and Aseanapol and between Europol and national law enforcement agencies to facilitate exchanges of good practices and expertise in key areas of interest, such as counter-terrorism, fighting transnational crime, human trafficking and migrant smuggling;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Highlights that the risk of proliferation of nuclear weapons and, the rapid build-up and, deployment of new technologically advanced nuclear capabilities, and the increasingly aggressive and belligerent rhetoric aiming at normalising the possession and the threat to use WMDs in the Indo-Pacific region remain major regional and global security concerns;