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Activities of Bernhard ZIMNIOK related to 2021/2065(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

The functioning of the EEAS and a stronger EU in the world (debate)
2023/03/13
Dossiers: 2021/2065(INI)

Amendments (23)

Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas in order to achieve the strategic objective of developing its global leadership role, the EU must continue to take the lead in strengthening multilateral partnerships on global priorities, in particular its partnership with the UN, and its comprehensive and open cooperation with NATO and other like-minded countries, and in protecting and promoting democracy and human rights globallysecurity for the Member States, the EU must continue to ensure partnership with international organizations such as the OSCE and the UN;
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the time is ripe to reform EU decision-making, making full and more effective use of the EU’s hard and sensuring a transfer oft power instruments, including by introducing qualified majority voting for decision-making in certain EU foreign policy areas such as human rights and the protection of international law, while also ensuring that the EU’s external and internal actions are coherently interlinked, back to the citizens and the Member States;
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas the role of the EEAS is at the heart of implementing the necessary reforms of the EU’s foreign, security and defence policieto support the preservation of European cultures and security for the Europeans;
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas Parliament’s determination and resolve to protect and defend the Union and the values and principles for which it stands, including the principle of territorial integrity, national sovereignty and the rules-based international order, must be matched by adequate decision-making and institutional structures for external actions;deleted
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas the structure of the EEAS should be reformed, using the pragmatic space created by the recent crises and whereas these reforms should clarify some of the unclear boundaries between the EEAS, the Commission, the Council and the structures of the Member Statesto streamline and shrink the organization and cease all mission activity;
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) ensure that development cooperation, trade policy and security and defence policy are coherent with the overall goals of the EU’s common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and especially ensure conditionality for development-aid in relation to the beneficiaries ability for migration-management;
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) reviseas the EEAS Decision with a view to increasing the leverage of the EEAS, sharpening its tools and increasing its legitimacy/EU delegations duplicate the work of the Member States embassies world-wide, the EEAS/EU delegations shall close and cease to operate as quasi-embassies;
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c
(c) increase leverage by introducing qualified majority voting for certain foreign policy areas, such as human rights and the protection of international law, and for imposing sanctions, in order to increase the effectiveness of the EU’s foreign policy;deleted
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) sharpen the tools by aligning all external action with the Treaties, which state that the EU must achieve an ever- increasing degree of convergence of Member States’ actions, which requires that the EEAS be given a clearer role in proposing policy development so that policies conducted, defined and implemented on the basis of mutual political solidarity among the Member States can be formed;deleted
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) increase legitimacy by adhering more closely to the principles of the Treaties, especially Article 24 TEU, which notes that the ‘Member States shall support the Union’s external and security policy actively and unreservedly in a spirit of loyalty and mutual solidarity’;deleted
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f
(f) integrate fully the ‘more for more’conditionality for migration-management principle into relations with third countries, whereby the EU will develop stronger partnerships with those that share the CFSP’s principles and the fundamental values of the Union;
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g
(g) adapt the structure of the EEAS tofor the new enlargement policies, hybrid threats and disinformation, the development of defence instruments and other emerging challengesdownsizing and closure of all offices outside the EU;
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h
(h) improve the EEAS and EU delegations’ operative flexibility to react to emerging issues and challenges more swiftly and effectively;deleted
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) ensure that the use of financial resources available match the level of ambition and support the operative flexibilities needed in order to react in real time to emerging geopolitical challengesnd the conditionality for migration managment is transparent;
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) increase the EU’s visibility and urgently equip the EEAS and, in particular, EU delegations with the tools to develop their strategic communication capabilities, which will enable them to communicate more effectively with both decision-makers and the general public in third countries, including in particular the task of countering disinformation; clarify the role of delegations and the role of headquarters in achieving this goal;deleted
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) convert the EU delegations into genuine EU embassies, with one clear chain of command led by the EU ambassador to each given country;deleted
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) establish the consular function in EU embassies in third countries in order to be able to help EU citizens in times of crisis;deleted
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m
(m) establish an EU Crisis Response Centre with the task of coordinating the response of EU embassies and the services they offer to EU citizens in times of crisis;deleted
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n
(n) delineate further the role of the rotating presidency in foreign policy matters and the EEAS’s role in solely supporting and complementing the presidency;
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p
(p) task the EEAS with preparing a revision of the Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign and Security Policy of 2016;deleted
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q
(q) adapt the organisation of the EEAS and the corresponding Commission services to new strategic needs without further delay, starting with the Arctic;deleted
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s
(s) promote common training and other concrete measures for the consolidation of an esprit de corps among EEAS staff who have differing diplomatic, cultural and institutional backgrounds, and to provide joint training initiatives for EEAS staff and national diplomats as part of their continuous professional development;deleted
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t
(t) support fully and develop the pilot project ‘Towards a European Diplomatic Academy’, which has been extended by one year in order to establish these functions within permanent organisational structures;deleted
2022/12/09
Committee: AFET