11 Amendments of Domènec RUIZ DEVESA related to 2019/2135(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that in the current global security environment, an integral part of the EU’s strategic autonomy should be the independent capacity to guarantee the security of its own citizens against an increasing number of threats, including armed conflicts in its neighbourhood, cyber-attacks, and disinformation campaigns;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a
Paragraph 1 a
1a. Notes that the Union has been slow to react and adapt – politically, diplomatically and militarily – to new crises and to this new international context; considers that, in the specific area of defence a political reluctance to implement to the fullest extent the robust provisions provided for in the European treaties and the numerous cooperation arrangements between Member States have weakened the Union’s ability to play a decisive role in external crises; therefore urges the European Council to move from unanimity to qualified majority voting in the fields of CFSP and CSDP where the Treaty on European Union allows it, including on decisions on CSDP civilian missions; recognises, further, that no country is able by itself to address the security challenges on the European continent and in its immediate environment;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a(new)
Paragraph 2 a(new)
2a. Calls for progressive steps to be taken towards a common defence policy (Article 42(2) TEU) and, eventually, a common defence, while also strengthening conflict prevention and resolution approaches, including through an increase in financial, administrative and human resources dedicated to mediation, dialogue, reconciliation, peace-building and immediate crisis responses;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. NotWelcomes that several Member States have recently called for the establishment of an EU security council; believes that this concept needs to be defined further before with a view to coordinate the Member States' defence policies, particularly with regard to cybersecurity and assessment of its added value can be carried outnti- terrorism, and jointly developing the EU's defence strategy;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that an EU white book on security and defence would be an essential strategic tool to reinforce the governance of EU defence policy and the progressive framing of the European Defence Union, would provide for strategic, long-term planning and allow for the gradual synchronisation of defence cycles across the Member States; calls on the Council and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR) to draw up such a tool, with a view to including it in, inter alia, the planning for the multiannual financial framework (MFF), and with the further objective of ensuring consistency between the EU Global Strategy Implementation Plan on Security and Defence, the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD) and the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO); underlines that the EU white book should also address the question of how and under what circumstances there are adequate and legitimate grounds for deploying CSDP missions to address crisis situations, humanitarian crises and conflicts;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that deeper integration in security and defence should also mean more democratic scrutiny through parliamentary control; reiterates the need, therefore, to strengthen Parliament’s role in this area, namely by establishing a fully- fledged Committee on Security and Defence, which should be complemented by joint interparliamentary meetings between representatives from national parliaments and MEPs; calls on the Member States governments to engage and involve their national parliaments on the decisions taken within the field of CSDP;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6a(new)
Paragraph 6a(new)
6a. Recalls the existence of Article 44 TEU, which provides additional flexibility provisions and introduces the possibility of entrusting the implementation of crisis management tasks to a group of Member States, which would carry out such tasks in the name of the EU and under the political control and strategic guidance of the Political and Security Committee and the European External Action Service;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates the need to remove obstacles to the deployment of the EU Battlegroups, and considers that the unanimity requirement in the Council undermines the very purpose of these groups – to act as a military rapid-reaction capacity that responds to emerging crises and conflicts around the world; calls for the institutionalisation of the existing European military structures into the EU framework;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12a(new)
Paragraph 12a(new)
12a. Stresses the need to strengthen the European Defence Agency by providing it with needed resources and political backing, thereby allowing it to play a leading and coordinating role in the EU’s CSDP, including in capability development, research and procurement; repeats its view that this would be best done by financing the Agency's staffing and running costs from the Union budget;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13b (new)
Paragraph 13b (new)
13b. Reiterates that Article 42(7) TEU establishes a mutual assistance clause in the context of collective security; underlines that Article 42(7) TEU, invoked only once thus far, can constitute a catalyst for the further development of the EU’s security and defence policy, leading to stronger commitments by all Member States; laments that the conditions for triggering the article and the arrangements for providing the assistance required have never been clearly defined; calls for an analysis of the implementation of the mutual assistance clause and for the preparation of further guidelines on its future implementation;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13c(new)
Paragraph 13c(new)
13c. Highlights that the solidarity clause (Article 222 TEU) also provides the Union and the Member States with the possibility of providing assistance to a Member State that is the object of a terrorist attack or the victim of a natural or man-made disaster; recalls that the 2013 Cybersecurity Strategy of the European Union states that “a particularly serious cyber incident or attack could constitute sufficient ground for a Member State to invoke the EU Solidarity Clause (article 222 TFEU); reminds that the Council Decision 2014/415/EU ‘on the arrangements for the implementation by the Union of the solidarity clause’, establishes that the solidarity clause calls for the Union to mobilise all the instruments at its disposal, including the structures developed in the framework of the CSDP; calls on Member States to consider the activation of the solidarity clause in the future;