Activities of Tom VANDENKENDELAERE related to 2022/2050(INI)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2022
Amendments (32)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17
Citation 17
— having regard to the global strategy entitled ‘Shared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe – A Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy’, presented by the Vice-President of the European Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR/ Vice- President of the European Commission (HR/VP) on 28 June 2016,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 17 a (new)
Citation 17 a (new)
— having regard to the Conclusions of the Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on the establishment of a Civilian CSDP Compact, as adopted by the Foreign Affairs Council at its meeting held on 19 November 2018,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
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— having regard to the action plan entitled ‘Strategic Compass for Security and Defence – For a European Union that protects its citizens, values and interests and contributes to international peace and security’, which was approved by the Council on 21 March 2022 and endorsed by the European Council on 25 March 2022,
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 30
Citation 30
— having regard to the common set of 74 proposals for the implementation of the Warsaw Joint Declaration endorsed by EU and NATO Councils on 6 December 2016, and 5 December 2017 and 20 June 2022,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
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Citation 34
— having regard to the Joint Statement by the Secretary of State of the United States of America and the VP/HRHR/VP of 3 December 2021 on the launch of the EU- US security and defence dialogue as well as to the subsequent meetings of this dialogue,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 35
Citation 35
— having regard to Russia’s illegal invasion and annexation of Crimea, parts of the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia regions as well as its unjustified and unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
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Citation 51
— having regard to its recommendation of 8 June 2022 to the Council and the VP/HRHR/VP on the EU’s Foreign, Security and Defence Policy after the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine19 , _________________ 19 Texts adopted, P9_TA(2022)0235.
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Europe is facing the most complex combination of both military and non-military threats since the end of the Cold War accentuated by Russia’s unjustified and illegal war against Ukraine; whereas in his war against Ukraine and his aggression against Europe and the West, President Putin deliberately choose escalation based on initiatives such as the staging of sham referendums in occupied Ukrainian territories, the partial mobilisation of Russian forces and repeated and increasing threats including the option to use nuclear weapons; whereas this requires the EU to enhance the effectiveness of its security and defence policy to defend its interests and values; whereas the Strategic Compass, considered as the EU's first White Book on Defence, aims to equip the EU with the necessary tools to make it an effective security provider and an assertive global actor; whereas there is a new urgency to boosting EU security and defence capabilities, including building on the unprecedented support for Ukraine and including the use of the EPF;
Amendment 65 #
B. whereas industrial fragmentation and inefficiency in developing European military capability costs between EUR 25 and EUR 100 billion each year; whereas Member States only procured some 11 % of their total equipment collaboratively in 2020; whereas the Member States have agreed on more and better defence spending; whereas the EU needs to further boost research, technological development and innovation in the field of security and defence;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the dramatic deterioration in European security accelerated by Russia’s unjustified and illegal war against Ukraine; stresses that this situation demands that the EU steps up its defence capacities and show greater willingness to act in order to deliver the security expected by the EU’s citizens; underlines the unprecedented and united EU response to Russia’s war against Ukraine, including the provision of military equipment through the EPF; remains committed to supporting Ukraine’s defence of its territorial integrity and sovereignty; calls on the EU to sustain its efforts and provide Ukraine with all necessary financial, humanitarian and military aid - including the launch of an EU military training mission;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes new EU initiatives to enhance security and defence, notably the Versailles Declaration, the Strategic Compass and Joint Communication on defence investment gaps; welcomes the Commission’s proposal for a regulation to incentivise joint procurement while stressing the need for budgetary resources that genuinely meet the ambitious goals set; welcomes the upcoming previewsentation of the European dDefence iInvestment pProgramme regulation, the budget of which should be significantly increased as well;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Underlines the need to move beyond the previous peace-time production of military equipment to a period when the EU is faced with a more challenging and risky security environment; reiterates its previous demand to urgently launch a discussion with a view to establishing another off- budget financial facility which would address the entire life-cycle of military capabilities at EU level from collaborative R&D and joint procurement to joint maintenance, training and security of supply;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the new ambition in the Strategic Compass to enhance the CSDPEU security and defence to build resilience and make it more capable and responsive, so it can act rapidly to defend our interests and values and protect the EU and its citizens; considers the Strategic Compass a major step towards a genuine European Defence Union enabling the EU to act as a credible partner; calls for the timely and sound implementation of the approximately 80 concrete actions and for them to be updated regularly along with the EU Threat Analysis; calls for the sustained political will of all Member States and EU institutions in this process;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need to substantially strengthen the society-wide focus on resilience and the response to hybrid warfarethreats; welcomes the decision to develop an EU Hybrid Toolbox for a coordinated response to hybrid campaigns; calls on the EU and its Member States to improve their capabilities to identify hybrid threats; encourages further development of the EU’s cyber- defence policy and capabilities, including the setting up of cyber rapid response teams;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the importance of improving and activating the implementation procedures of Article 44 TEU on mission delegation to make the CSDP more flexible and efficient in the field, to makentrusting the implementation of a CSDP task to a Group of Member States to make the CSDP more flexible and efficient in the field; highlights the importance of continuing to operationalise Article 42(7) TEU on mutual assistance operational in the short run and to clarify the coherence between this and Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the EU’s ambition to strengthen its military and civilian capabilities; stresses the need to make full use of EU capability-development initiatives and budgets, notably the foreseen regulation on EDIRPA, EDF, PESCO, the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD) and Military Mobility as well as the Civilian CSDP Compact, in order to fill critical capability gaps, reduce fragmentation in the defence-procurement sector, achieve full interoperability of our forces and strengthen a resilient, competitive and innovative European defence technological and industrial base; calls for ensuring maximum consistency between these initiatives; calls on the Member States to focus, in the process of strengthening the EU’s military abilities, on the needs of military personnel and specialized training to deal with emerging issues (e.g. climate change);
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers it important, as highlighted in the Joint Communication on defence investment gaps, to fill the identified defence investment gaps such as replenishing stockpiles, replacing Soviet- era systems, reinforcing air and missile defence systems, operationalising the 'Eurodrone', expanding existing main battle tank capabilities and armoured vehicles, strengthening naval forces and improving satellite-based secure connectivity and expanding the EU's military mobility programme; to this end, calls on making full use of collaborative opportunities including joint procurement; strongly calls on Member States to commit to a significant increase in funding for EU procurement mechanisms and to take swift and thorough action in this crucial field;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Expresses deep concern about developments in the Sahel region and the recent coups d’état in the region; condemns the increasing presence of the Kremlin-backed Wagner Group in the Sahel; firmly believes that the latter’s involvement in West Africa runs counter to the objective of bringing peace, security and stability to the regionstrongly reiterates its position that any long-term security and political cooperation with EU actors will require realistic timetables for a return to democracy, including clear and measurable milestones; acknowledges that the various international missions have not yet achieved their primary goal of lasting peace in the region and that a reflection process on the mandates and roles of international missions and policies is therefore needed; expresses similar concern over the increased presence and activity of Islamist terrorist groups, in particular Al-Qaeda, Daesh and Al- Shabaab in the Middle East and Africaunderlines that a revision of the EU’s mandates and engagements should focus on making cooperation with West and Sahelian African countries more preventive in nature; expresses strong concern about the increasing presence of Islamist terrorist organisations and calls for increased efforts by all stakeholders to tackle this increasing problem; condemns the increasing presence of the Kremlin- backed Russian Wagner Group in the Sahel; firmly believes that the involvement of the Wagner Group in West Africa runs counter to the objective of bringing peace, security and stability to the region and is incompatible with security and defence cooperation with the EU;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Supports the review and reinforcement of all CSDP missions and operations by providing them with more robust and flexible mandates; stresses the need to strengthen their resilience and effectiveness by enabling them to better address hybrid security challenges, such as through better cooperation with other EU actors and Justice and Home Affairs Agencies (JHA) as well as like-minded partners outside the EU;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the persistent and structural problem of ensuring that CSDP missions and operations are fully staffed; calls on the Member States to follow through on their decisions to launch missions and operations by providing the necessary personnel; strongly urges Member States to fulfil their pledges so as to match their actual engagement to their ambitions; recalls the Strategic Compass which underlines that CSDP missions and operations require more well trained personnel; strongly urges Member States to fulfil their pledges so as to match their actual engagement to their ambitions; strongly urges the Member States to take into account the social and working rights of military personnel when they are trained and deployed together under an EU framework;
Amendment 346 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Calls for the adoption of a new Civilian CSDP Compact by mid-2023 that will provide objectives on the type, number and size of civilian missions and for the set-up of a civilian capability development process by 2024, as stipulated by the Strategic Compass;
Amendment 353 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for the full implementation of the Strategic Compass; calls for faster operationalisation of the Rapid Deployment Capacity (RDC) based on the increasesubstantially modified EU Battlegroups and preadiness of-identified Member States’ military forces and capabilities and on the ability to respond more adequately to the urgent need of an alert and mobile permanent multinational military unit; calls on Member States to commit to substantially narrowing critical gaps in strategic enablers by 2025, in particular linked to the RDC, such as strategic airlift, space communication assets, medical assets, cyber-defence capabilities and intelligence and reconnaissance; calls for further strengthening of the EU civilian and military command structures;
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for the systematisation of security and defence partnerships with like- minded partners worldwide to meet the EU’s level of ambition as a security provider; considers it essential to include security and defence issues more systematically in the EU’s political dialogues with like-minded partners; welcomes plans to convene the first ever EU Security and Defence Partnership Forum;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Underlines the fundamental shared democratic values at the heart of the EU and NATO; calls for the deepening of EU- NATO relations, such as through a third Joint Declaration on EU-NATO Declacooperation; underlines the need to strongly upgrade the strategic partnership with NATO to base it on the strengthening of political unity and solidarity and enhanced political dialogue on all aspects of common challenges and strategically relevant issues; encourages coordinated responses in conflict prevention and crisis management mechanisms to counter emerging common threats;
Amendment 421 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers synergies and coherence with the implementation of NATO’s Strategic Concept essential, particularly in the areas of countering Russian aggression, cyber defence, hybrid warfarethreats and support to strategic partners;
Amendment 434 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the participation of the US, Canada and Norway in the PESCO project on mMilitary mMobility as important to increase coherence between EU and NATO capability development efrespective efforts to facilitate the movement of military fortces; welcomes the EU-NATO Structured Dialogue on Military Mobility;
Amendment 440 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Invites the EU and NATO to reinforce cooperation in supporting the capacity-building of our partners; strongly supports NATO 's Open Door Policy;
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Welcomes the EU-US strategic dialogue on security and defence dialogue as an important milestone in closer transatlantic cooperation; encourages the VP/HRHR/VP to devote particular attention to the security of the EaP region in this dialogue, to include in the discussion areas such as mutual security and defence initiatives, disarmament and non-proliferation, the impact of disruptive technologies, climate change, hybrid threats, cyber defence, military mobility, crisis management and the relationship with strategic competitors;
Amendment 452 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Urges institutionalised security and defence cooperation with the United Kingdom; encourages the United Kingdom to seriously engage with the EU on pressing strategic challenges; encourages the VP/HRHR/VP to invite the United Kingdom to informal Council meetings of foreign affairs (and defence) ministers to exchange views on issues of common concern;
Amendment 459 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. UExpresses strong concern about the increased instability of our neighbourhood, which often is the result of deliberate actions by malign actors who through various actions are weakening democratic reforms in order to ultimately weaken the EU; underlines that the EU’s security is closely interlinked with the security of our immediate neighbours; calls for deepening military-security cooperation with some EaP countries including by strengthening the security dimension of the EaP and for enhancing security and defence policy dialogues, particularly with Ukraine, Georgia and the Republic of Moldova;
Amendment 498 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 – indent 4
Paragraph 27 – indent 4
- reinforcing inter-parliamentary dialogue and cooperation with national parliaments on EuropeanU security and defence, including through the Inter- Parliamentary Conference on CFSP/CSDP;
Amendment 499 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Reiterates its call on the EU to fully exploit its position and reputation in the Indo-Pacific as a credible, reliable and autonomous global actor for peace amid the growing geopolitical competition between global and regional powers in the region; recalls that the added value of EU engagement in the Indo-Pacific lies in its comprehensive range of civilian and military assistance measures, including well developed non-military contributions; expresses deep concern about China’s rapid military build-up, including its recently uncovered test of a hypersonic missile, and its increasingly assertive behaviour, expressed most recently in the form of its unprecedented, and internationally-condemned, military exercises around the island of Taiwan which pose a threat to the stability of the entire region;