9 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2022/2051(INL)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Conference on the Future of Europe represented a concrete, successful exercise of participative democracy and served as an unprecedented platform for bottom-up discussion between citizens and politicians and resulted in concrete proposals that need to be honoured even if they necessitated Treaty changes; whereas this unprecedented exercise should be made permanent through an ad hoc platform, aimed at facilitating continued dialogue between European citizens and their elected representatives, while also including the citizens of the countries that are official and potential candidates for EU membership;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the citizens’ panel 4 “EU in the world/ Migration” made several important recommendations in the field of foreign affairs and EU external action, which are all long-standing calls of the European Parliament;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas honouring those recommendations would make the Union a stronger and, more reliable, influential and visible global player, would lead to more efficient decision- making and would improve the European Parliament’s scrutiny rights in the field of foreign policy being the only democratically elected institution of the Union;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the main citizens’ recommendations in the field of foreign and security policy, notably the need to switch to more efficient decision-making, through the use of qualified majority voting (QMV) instead of unanimity, and the need to improve the Union’s methods to impose sanctions, to be incorporated in a Treaty changecomprehensive Treaty change aimed at empowering the Union to become a decisive global player that puts its core principles and values at the centre of its action;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that Article 48(7) and Article 31(3) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) contain passerrelle clauses that can make switching from unanimity to qualified majority voting possible in the area of common foreign and security policy (CFSP) without military implications; calls for a switch to QMV in all decisions in the field of CFSP, notably those concerning sanctions and human rights, as the passerelle clauses have never been used due to the lack of political will; calls on the Member States to demonstrate the political will to move further in the EU integration process, overcoming the cross-veto practice and opening up for the activation of the passerelle clauses in the short term;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Is of the opinion that, in case it will be proven impossible to thoroughly revise the Treaties due to vetoes from some Member States, most notably in what concerns the adoption of QMV in foreign policy, the Union should consider the possibility to look into other forms of reinforced cooperation among those Member States that demonstrate the will to move further in the integration process through stricter and binding coordination in their external action;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers it necessary to broaden the scope of threats defined in the mutual defence clause stipulated in Article 42(7) TEU to include hybrid threats, cyberthreats, disinformation campaigns and economic coercion by third countries;
Amendment 102 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for inclusa precise, all- encompassing definition of the principleconcept of “strategic autonomy” that would include all the domains it can touch upon, and for the inclusion of this principle into the list of objectives to be achieved through the Union’s foreign and security policy enshrined in Article 21 TEU;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the introduction of provisions in Articles 42 and 46 TEU enabling the joint procurement of defence equipment and other security-related spending from the budget of the Union favouring European products whenever possible as well as the establishment of joint military units and command structures; calls on the Member States to put aside nationalistic attitudes and to demonstrate proper commitment towards the reinforcement of the EU's Defence Technological and Industrial Base through meaningful participation into the EU framework for joint development of defence capabilities;