11 Amendments of Hilde VAUTMANS related to 2018/2099(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the rules-based world order is being increasingly challenged both at the political-military level and, more recently, at the commercial-economic one, and that the societal, ecological, economic, technological and geopolitical trends point to the growing vulnerability of the world's population to shocks and stresses; notes that these systemic challenges are being accompanied by the continuous deterioration of the international environment confronted with interstate conflicts, natural disasters, extreme weather events, water crises, terrorism, state failure and cyber and hybrid attacks on the foundational pillars of our societies; acknowledges that the defence of the rules-based international order and the values defended by liberal democracies should be of the outmost priority and should be approached without compromise;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that these challenges are too vast to be successfully met by any single country; is firmly convinced that EU's vulnerability is direct outcome of the lack of integration as well as lack of coordination; emphasises that it is vital for the EU to respond to these challenges, consistently, effectively and with one voice; notes that the CSDP is a useful tool for addressing many of these challenges; points out that the CSDP institutions are in place as well as its many instruments and urges Members States to use them without delay;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises, however, that to this date cooperation is still in a developing stage and much more needs to be done to ensure that the EU and Member States reap the rewards of deep, and sustained, long-term cooperation on defence that will lead to common EU defence;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Emphasises practical and financial benefits of further integrations of European defence capabilities; underlines that through comprehensive and trustworthy work of all stakeholders, it is possible to increase the scope and efficiency of defence spending without the increase of defence spending itself;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. CUrges the establishment of precise and binding guidelines to provide a well- defined framework for future activation and implementation of Article 42(7) TEU; calls, therefore, for the conceptualization and adoption of a EU Security and Defence White Book that will guarantee that future capability building processes will be based on EU´s strategic security interests in accordance with military and industrial necessities;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Reaffirms the importance of developing the necessary military capabilities to deal with the comprehensive security challenges in and around Europe outlined by the EU Global Strategy as the facilitation of the EU security is firstly and chiefly EU obligation; recalls that European Union´s Global Strategy encourages the realization of deep defence cooperation that would lead, as stipulated in the Lisbon Treaty, to a common EU defence;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers that the capabilities for the Union`s security and defence could be improved by making better use of the existing frameworks of defence and military cooperation such as the European multinational high readiness corps HQs and the EU battlegroups; believes that this will contribute to the continuous transformation of national armed forces, towards the goal of being more interoperable, more sustainable, more flexible and more deployable, and a final goal of common EU army; invites the Council to investigate, for example, the feasibility of potentially setting-up a permanent Spearhead Europe Force, which could be drawing on the European multinational high readiness corps HQ in Strasbourg, Szczecin and Münster; considers that the EU battle groups should grow into full- scale brigades and should be assigned to the corps HQ on a permanent basis;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Urges Council to take concrete steps towards the harmonisation and standardisation of the European armed forces, in accordance to Article 42(2), in order to facilitate the cooperation of armed forces personnel under the umbrella of a new European Defence Union as a step in progressive framing of a common Union defence policy;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Stresses that the use of all possibilities provided for in the Treaty would improve competitiveness and functioning of the defence industry in the single market, further stimulate defence cooperation through positive incentives, and targeting projects that Member States are not able to undertake, reducing unnecessary duplication, and promoting a more efficient use of public money; is of opinion that the outputs of these strategic cooperative programmes have great potential to be dual-use technologies and as such bring extra added value to Member States; emphasises on development of European capabilities and an integrated defence market;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Calls for the formation of the European Intelligence Agency with the mission and capability to implement a de facto transversal intelligence network within the Member States allowing the European Union to react in a comprehensive and coordinated way to emerging threats by adhering to Article 24(3) and Article 4(3), as the comprehensive gathering of intelligence information cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States, either at central level or at regional and local level, but can rather, by reason of the scale or effects of the proposed action, be better achieved at Union level (Article 5(3));
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Encourages the Member States participating in PESCO to set up a permanent 'European Integrated Force' composed of divisions of their national armies and to make it available to the Union for the implementation of the common security and defence policy as foreseen by Article 42(3) TEU;