Activities of Georgios EPITIDEIOS related to 2017/2130(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Eastern Partnership: November 2017 Summit (debate) EL
Amendments (5)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Δ
Recital Δ
D. whereas, given that the EU considers cooperation to be a value in itself and strongly believes that it leads to win- win situations for all parties concerned, there is a commitment on the side of the EU to continue to work with all Eastern Partnership countries regardless of their strategic choices, provided that they do not run counter to the interests of the EU as a whole or the individual Member States;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Θ
Recital Θ
I. whereas the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the EU’s eastern partners remains under threat from unresolved regional conflicts, including some that are sustained by the Russian Federation in contradiction with its international commitments to uphold the international legal order;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point θ
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point θ
(i) to commit to working jointly on increased mobility between the EU and partner countries; to support Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine in implementing the visa liberalisation agreement and to ensure that suspension mechanisms are not triggered in the future, notably though close cooperation in the areas of police and customs to safeguard against security threats, criminality and overstays; to open visa dialogues with Armenia, to encourage progress by Azerbaijan in the implementation of Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements (VFA/RA) with a view to opening a visa dialogue in the future, and to finalise negotiations on VFA/RA with Belarus for the benefit of its citizens, should these countriessupport Armenia and Belarus also, with a view to ensuring that they make significant progress in the area of fundamental values and meet the precise conditions defined in visa liberalisation roadmaps;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point ιζ
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point ιζ
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point κστ
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point κστ
(z) to ensure that strict conditionality is always attached to current and further levels of cooperation and support for the partners, and that it is also observed; to underline that EU financial support to its partners will be conditional on concrete reform steps and that the EU’s incentive- based approach will continue to benefit those partners most engaged in ambitious reforms; to emphasise in particular that no comprehensive agreement will be ratified with a country that grossly violates EU values, notably through the non- implementation of ECHR decisions; to also highlight that clear benchmarks need to be met before any new dialogue on visa-free regimes is launched and concluded; to reiterate that backsliding on prior achievements will systematically lead to the suspension of agreements, including in the area of visa- free regimes and EU funding;