Activities of Marek JUREK related to 2015/2001(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
State of EU-Russia relations (A8-0162/2015 - Gabrielius Landsbergis) PL
Amendments (8)
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas Russia has developed policies and instruments for, and became an active user of, a new type of hybrid warfare, deliberately blurring the lines between military/paramilitary activity and political activism, employing a mix of weaponised information (information deliberately altered and aired to inflict damage to societal, political and institutional structures), using professional instigators of insurgency in foreign countries, targeting local minority-language groups abroad for destabilisation, controlling information space and combining cyber warfare with military means; whereas there are signs, such as the kidnapping of Estonian Internal Security Service officer Eston Kohver on Estonian territory, that Russia has begun to use this kind of warfare against EU Member States;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the intrusions of Russian jet fighters into the airspace of EU and NATO members states jeopardise the safety of civilian flights; whereas Russia’s ever more overt military posturing in the EU’s immediate neighbourhood in the form of large-scale military manoeuvres – some of which involve nuclear weapons or armed war planes – poses a direct threat to civil aviation safety;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the World Media Freedom Index 2014 ranks the Russian Federation at 148th place out of 180; whereas the financing of state-controlled media outlets has been significantly widened and increased; whereas the Russian Bolshevik leaders are once again being made the subject of personality cults; whereas the current Russian authorities have frequently glorified the Soviet Union, in particular Stalin’s approach to international affairs;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas Russia has suspended its participation in negotiations on the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe; whereas it is maintaining and modernising an arsenal of tactical nuclear warheads which is several times larger than NATO’s own arsenal and plays a key role in Russia’s military strategy; whereas there are signs that Russia has violated the Intermediate- Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which if true would pose a serious threat to Europe and Russia’s other immediate neighbours;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates that, in the light of Russia’s direct and indirect involvement in the war in Ukraine, amounting to a deliberate violation of the core of the democratic principles and values sustained by the EU and widely shared internationally, the EU cannot envisage a return to ‘business as usual’; calls for a critical re-assessment by the EU of its relations with Russia, and for the drafting, as promptly as possible, of a soft-power contingency plan, a key component of which could be a new opening at the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, to counter the aggressive and divisive policies conducted by Russia against the EU and its partners; believes that the Member States should prepare themselves as quickly as possible to deal with the new security threats at the EU’s eastern borders, not only by strengthening their military capabilities, but also by showing greater political solidarity with the countries most at risk and defending their security interests within NATO;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is deeply concerned by the fact that Russia now openly positions itself, and acts, not as a partner of, but as a rival to the international democratic community, seeking to challenge the current international order, and is in the process of redrawing borders within Europe; is extremely worried by the tendency of the Russian authorities to systematically denigrate liberalWestern democracy and to consider democratic neighbouring countries as a threat to their own rule;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines, in this regard, that the strengthening of internal policies, notably through closer integrationto be achieved notably by achieving greater solidarity and cohesion in Member States’ policies, is the keystone of an efficient and successful EU external policy; calls, therefore, on the Member States to carry on with, and intensify their efforts towards, the effective elimination of decision- making bottlenecks and the consolidation of common policies, with the aim of minimising the vulnerabilities of these policies and maximising their resilience, in particular in the areas of trade, financial services and transactions, migration, energy, external borders management, information and cyber security;
Amendment 392 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the EU to provide support to grass-roots projects aimed at developing high journalistic standards, freedom of the media, and unbiased and trustworthy information in Russia, and at deconstructing propaganda within the EU and the Eastern Partnership countries; calls on the Russian authorities to condemn Communism and the Soviet regime and to punish those who committed crimes in their name; supports the initiative to develop Russian- language media channels, with a view to providing a credible and accessible alternative to biased information for Russian-speaking minorities in the EU and in the Eastern Partnership countries;