Activities of Eleftherios SYNADINOS related to 2016/2052(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Defence Union (A8-0316/2016 - Urmas Paet) EL
Amendments (15)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), as provided for in the Treaty on European Union (TEU), shall include the progressive framing of a common Union defence policy that might lead to a future common defence beyond what have until now been areas of EU external action;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that achieving the objectives of the CSDP to strengthen the Union’s operational capacity to act externally for peace-keeping, conflict prevention and strengthening international security as provided for in the TEU is more than ever necessary in a fast deteriorating security environmentview of local, regional and global threats and conflicts and asymmetric threats within the EU;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
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2. Acknowledges that the current geopolitical environment and the situation in Europe call for the Union to assume greater responsibilities in the fields of both external and internal security and to pursue more ambitious goals such as a European Army, and welcomes the European Council’s conclusions of June 2015 asking for further development of both civilian and military capabilities and the strengthening of Europe’s defence industry;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
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3. Calls on the VP/HR and the Member States to use the full potential of the TEU, especially Article 44 on the implementation of a CSDP task by a group of Member States and Article 46 on permanent structured cooperation with regard to a faster and more flexible deployment of CSDP missions and operationsmission planning, harmonisation of operational requirements and, where necessary, military deployment; welcomes the activation of Article 42(7) on the mutual defence clause;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
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3. Recalls that the internal market instruments offer solutions for effective cooperation among Member States and European defence industries and for building on economies of scale, in order to avoid duplications and make expenditure more efficient in times of budget constraints and in view of the imminent risks of the EU defence sector losing critical expertise and innovation, autonomy and competitiveness advantages;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
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5. Calls for the establishment of the Council of Defence Ministers format and the setting up of a permanent strategic civil-military headquarters with a permanent military operational componentfull involvement of the European External Action Service and the EU Military Committee; underlines the role of the European Defence Agency in capability development;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the new CSDP provides greater flexibility, for example through stronger Member State cooperation within a ‘permanent structured cooperation’ framework, which could take various forms, including joint development and procurement; calls for the creation of a structure for the exchange of information on terrorism, crossborder organised crime and cybersecurity;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
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7. Highlights the importance of intensifying the synergies between security and defence and the synergies with other Union policies, and of building on integrated capabilities in order to develop common approaches in the areas of, for example, hybrid and asymmetrical threats, terrorism, external border security, illegal immigration, common intelligence, cybersecurity and customs controls;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 8
8. Notes that justified concerns about the surrender of sovereignty concerns and divergent threat perceptions in the different Member States and differing national industries, defence doctrines and operational capabilities hamper integration of the defence sector and contribute to market fragmentation, and believes that a European Defence Union may create more trust, align the different plans for development of national capabilities and ultimately lead to more common projects and the opening of the markets.
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
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4. Believes that the Member States which are willing to make more binding commitments to one another should establish permanent structured cooperation within the Union framework; encourages those Member States to establish multinational forces within the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) and make these forces available to the common security and defence policy; believes that the Council should normally entrust the implementation of a peace-keeping, conflict prevention and strengthening international security task to those multinational forces, pursuant to Articles 38, 42, 43 and 44 TFEU; is convinced that the EU battle group system should be further developed to that end; underlines that PESCO is open to all Member States;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
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7. Stresses the importance of putting in place the necessary measures to allow a working, accessible, transparent and simple European market in defence equipment in order to enable Member States to reach better defence and security budget maximisation and restrict the cost of developing or acquiring defence equipment; is concerned that the progress towards improved competitiveness, greater transparency, and less red tape in the defence sector has been slow so far, and that a sound European defence industrial policy is still missing;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 8
8. Is convinced that in progressively framing the common Union defence policy, the EU and the European Defence Agency should make provision, in agreement with the Member States concerned, for participation in capability programmes they undertake, including the participation in the structures created for the execution of those programmes within the Union framework;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the joint declaration by the presidents of the European Council and the Commission, and the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of 8 July 2016; emphasises the need for stronger cooperation between the EU and NATO in the area of security and defence; is convinced that EU-NATO cooperation should involve building resilience together in the east and the southwhere required, as well as defence investment; considers that cooperation on capabilities offers the prospect of improving compatibility and synergy between both frameworks; is convinced that this would also strengthen NATO’s role in security and defence policy, and in collective defenceconsiders that the provisions of Article 42 (2) TFEU must be strictly respected;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
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15. Takes the view that the white book shouldmay not take the form of an interinstitutional agreement of a binding nature which w, as each Member State maintains the right of veto even within the framework of the North Atlantic Alliance, but should set out all Union initiatives, investments, measures and programmes over the respective multiannual political and financial framework of the EU; is convinced that the Member States, partners and allies can take this interinstitutional agreement into account in their own security and defence planning, with a view to being mutually consistent;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 10
Paragraph 16 – indent 10
- initial EU-NATO projects on countering hybrid and asymmetrical threats, on operational cooperation including at sea, and on migration, on cyber security and defence, on defence capabilities, on strengthening the defence technological and industrial base, on exercises, and on building the defence and security capacity of our partners in the East and Southwhere required;