2 Amendments of David LEGA related to 2021/2115(DEC)
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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3. Notes the remaining gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff, despite slightly positive trends in previous years; reiterates the importance of ensurpromoting a balanced distribution of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at middle and senior management levels; points also to a remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalances;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
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4. Welcomes the ECA’s Special Report on Disinformation affecting the Union and calls for implementing the ECA recommendations in the Union’s action plan against disinformation; stresses the continuous need to fight foreign propaganda and expose disinformation, espionage and malicious foreign influence; underlines the importance of the EEAS Strategic Communication Task Force, which are increasingly used to undermine the democratic order in the Union and in countries in the Union’s vicinity; underlines the importance of the EEAS Strategic Communication Task Force and calls for the broadening of its mandate, including in relation to state sponsored disinformation originating in China and the Middle East, particularly Iran, and calls for providing it with the necessary financial and personnel resources;