18 Amendments of Fernando MAURA BARANDIARÁN related to 2014/2219(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points to the dramatically aggravated security environment around the EU, where the international law-based order and stability and security of Europe are challenged to a degree unprecedented since the beginning of European integrationperiod since the late 1990s when the ESDP/CSDP was established; points to the ongoing transformation of the global political order;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 – indent 1
Paragraph 3 – indent 1
– safeguarding peace and stability by speaking with one voice and taking solidarity actions in protecting European values and enforcing the political and legal order in Europe, thereby safeguarding peace and stability,
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 – indent 2
Paragraph 3 – indent 2
– improving the EU’s contribution to its territorial defence,
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 – indent 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 – indent 3 a (new)
- taking a main role in the resolution of conflicts in Europe and in areas of its strategic interest,
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 – indent 4
Paragraph 3 – indent 4
– strengthening, together with partners, the rules-based, democratic and pluralistic global political and economic order, including the protection of human rights, and
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines the need for a common strategy to face significant new security threats, with the predominant one being terrorism inside and outside the EU; emphasises the need to intertwine internal and external security of EU as well as closer cooperation and coordination of the responsible authorities; calls for strengthening and deepening the cooperation among EU members on intelligence data exchange;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Insists that the political, economic, financial and defence resources of the EU and its Member States must be combined to secure peace and stability in Europe, maximise the EU’s influence in the world, by produceing synergies and ensure peace and stability in Europewith NATO, UN and other international stakeholders;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Encourages the EU institutions and the Member States to fully use the toolbox of the Lisbon Treaty to move from what has so far been a mostly reactive approach to a pro-active, coherent EU foreign and security policy, based on common values and deployed in the shared European interest;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Underlines the vital importance of collective defence guaranteed by NATO for its members; urges the Member States, as a matter of urgency,stresses that the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) should be deepened further in cooperation with NATO; urges the Member States to step up their ability to contribute to territorial defence, commit morethe necessary resources and cooperate more closely to build synergies towards European military structure; stresses that all the Member States must enjoy the same level of security, in line with Article 42(7) TEU; stresses that a credible EU foreign policy needs to be underpinned by adequate defence capabilities in the Member States and an effective Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP); takes the view that the CSDP is an important component of European defence and can contribute to it in many ways, including by fostering defence cooperation, enhancing interoperability and increasing efficiency; welcomes the HR/VP’s commitment to actively engage on defence matters, including by chairing meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council in the Defence Ministers configuration;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 5
Paragraph 16 – indent 5
– strengthening the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base, inter alia by coordinating defence budgets and harmonising requirements as well as promoting an effective cooperation among different Member States military forces boosting the harmonization of its equipment;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for the industrial and technological resources needed to improve cyber security to be developed, including by promoting a single market for cyber security products as well as double use of cyber security; emphasises the need to mainstream cyber defence into external action and the CFSP, and calls for closer coordination on cyber defence with NATO; welcomes the EU’s Cyber Security Strategy; urges the European Defence Agency to strengthen coordination on cyber defence among Member States and calls on the Member States to provide the EDA with the means to achieve this goal;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for a reform of the EU’s approach torenewed and coherent EU migration policy; insists on the need to address the root causes of irregular migration, using all policy and assistance instruments provided by all member states which will share human and material means, including development and trade policies, humanitarian aid, conflict prevention and crisis management; reiterates its call to step up humanitarian support to countries which host refugees and to strengthen Regional Protection Programmes, run in collaboration with UNHCR close to regions of origin; stresses that migration management should be a high priority in EU cooperation with neighbours in the east and south;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Points out that energy is increasingly being used as a foreign policy tool and recalls that energy cooperation lies at the foundation of European integration; calls for increased coherence and coordination between foreign policy and energy policy; takes the view that energy security should be part of the comprehensive approach to the EU’s external action and believesis confident that energy policy must be in line with the Union’s other priority policies, including its security, foreign and neighbourhood, trade, and development policies, as well as its policies in defence of human rights;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Takes the view that a solidarity mechanism should be put in place in order to deal with possible energy disruptions; believesis confident that an interconnected energy infrastructure should be further developed and that efforts to diversify the EU’s energy supply should be accelerated in order to strengthen the energy independence of Member States;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Emphasises the need for the EU and its Member States to speak with one voice vis-à-vis Russia; calls on the HR/VP to develop, as a matter of priority, a common EU strategy on Russia, aimed at securing a commitment from Russia on peace and stability in Europe; believes that a good relationship between Russia and the EU would beRussia on having good relations believing that a good relationship between Russia and the EU, based on comprehensive legal obligations covering all the main areas of relations, including the defence of human rights, respect for democratic values, principles of the rule of law and international treaties and commitments, is in the common interest and hopes that Russia will show itself open to such a development by respecting international law;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Insists on the need to substantially revise the EU´s policy towards its southern neighbourhood, and to develop a comprehensive strategy focusing the EU’s instruments and scarce budgetary resources on support for the building of functioning and inclusive states capable of delivering security for their citizens, confronting religious extremism and, enhancing the rule of law and respecting human rights, which is a key precondition for investment and economic development; points to the unused potential of cross- border trade within the region; insists on close cooperation on managing migration flows, while respecting human rights;
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Urges the EU leadership to develop, in close coordination with the US and involving major powers (e.g. Russia and China), a strategy encouraging regional actors (including Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Gulf Cooperation Council governments, Iran, the Arab League and Kurdish forces) to unite in order to put an end to proxy wars and halt financial support to fundamentalists, to resolve outstanding "frozen conflicts" and to develop a solution for peace and stability in the region; supports the engagement of all parties involved in the Middle East peace process in finding a comprehensive, constructive and sustainablIsrael - Palestine peace process understanding that the occupation of the Palestinian territory has to come to an end and that the peace process needs to be done in accordance to the two-state solution ton the Middle East conflictbasis of the 1967 borders; emphasises the need to preserve the territorial integrity and national unity of Libya and urges the HR/VP to provide impetus for a stronger engagement of regional actors on mediation and conflict resolution; (E.g. See wording in point A. in European Parliament resolution on recognition of PalestineOr. en statehood (2014/2964(RSP)))
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Considers that Africa is under a strategic threat from Somalia to Mauritania, being it necessary an adequate EU response for such threat. This response has to be effective in the economic development areas and education and especially in the security area by supporting the involved governments in the fight against the terrorist threat. This military response would include not only material but effective formation of military units, assistance and, if necessary, deployment of military forces in the ground after an agreement with the specific countries is reached;