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25 Amendments of Bernhard ZIMNIOK related to 2022/2050(INI)

Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4
— having regard to Regulation (EU) 2021/947 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 June 2021 establishing the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe2 , _________________ 2 OJ L 209, 14.6.2021, p. 1.deleted
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7
— having regard to Council Decision (CFSP) 2021/509 of 22 March 2021 establishing a European Peace Facility (EPF)4 , _________________ 4deleted OJ L 102, 24.3.2021, p. 14.
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 27
— having regard to the applications by Sweden and Finland to join NATO, jointly submitted on 18 May 2022, and to the signature by NATO Allies of the Accession Protocols for Finland and Sweden on 5 July 2022,deleted
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
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 this requires the EU to enhance the effectiveness of its security and defence policy to defend its interests and values; wherease Commission claims that the Strategic Compass 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;
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas CSDP has 11 civilian missions and 7 military operations under way with around 5 000 personnel deployed on three continents; whereas total personnel deployed by the Member States has steadily declined in recent years, and missions and operations persistently suffer from Member States not delivering on their pledges to provide sufficient military or civilian personnellow overall performance;
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
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 step 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 againstnotes the strong Commission driven support for Ukraine, including the provision of military equipment through the EPF; remains commitcalls on the Member Stateds 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 aidbring the two sides to the negotiation table to end the untold human suffering in Ukraine;
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes new EU initiatives to enhance 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 review of the European defence investment programme regulation, the budget of which should be significantly increased as well;deleted
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the new ambition in the Strategic Compass to enhance the CSDP 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;deleted
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the need to substantially strengthen the society-wide focus on resilience and the response to hybrid warfare; welcomes the decision to develop an EU Hybrid Toolbox for a coordinated response to hybrid threats; encourages further development of the EU’s cyber- defence policy and capabilitiescalls for more attention and resistance to the use of weapons of mass- migration;
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on Member States to assess the reform of the decision-making process with a view to realising untapped potential within the Treaties, in particular by activating Article 31 TEU extending qualified majority voting (QMV) to areas relating to the CSDP and pursuing full use of the ‘passerelle clauses’ and scope of articles that enhance EU solidarity and mutual assistance in the event of crises; proposes changes to the Treaties in the CSDP, to be discussed and decided upon within a convention following up on the Conference on the Future of Europe, primarily focusing on switching from unanimity to QMV for Council decisions with military implications and on defence matters for situations where passerelle clauses do not apply;deleted
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
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 EDIRPA, EDF, PESCO, the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD) and Military Mobility, 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;deleted
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Considers it important to fill the identified defence investment gaps such as replenishing stockpiles, replacing Soviet- era systems after much of arms and ammunition were handed over to Ukraine, reinforcing air and missile defence systems, expanding existing main battle tank capabilities and armoured vehicles, strengthening naval forces and improving satellite-based secure connectivity; strongly calls onproposes that the Member States to commit to a significant increase in funding for EU procurement mechanisms and to take swift and thorough atheir defence forces while making significant reductions in this crucial fielspending on migration, asylum and development-aid;
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the need for much more support for EUuropean research and development to ensure that the defence industrial and technological base is able to meet increasing demands and ambitions;
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for more and smarter spending to foster industrial consolidation, cost savings and increased interoperability; calls for synergies with other EU financial instruments to be leveraged and access to private funding for the defence industry to be facilitated;
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 273 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the need to significantly raise the ceiling of the EPF and create a separate EPF envelope for Ukraine which guarantees adequate support for the country without systematically neglecting other priority regions, including Africa; calls for significantly increased military support in all its aspects, including training and information sharing with other particularly vulnerable countries such as the Republic of Moldova, Georgia and Western Balkan countries; calls for all EPF support for the provision of equipment to be carried out in coordination with NATO to increase efficiency and avoid unnecessary duplication;deleted
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
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 region; 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 neededshould immediately be closed;; expresses similargrave concern over the increased presence and activity of Islamist terrorist groups, in particular Al-Qaeda, Daesh and Al- Shabaab in the Member States, the Middle East and in Africa and the need to isolate Europe from these groups and latter two geographical areas;
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Supports the review and reinforcementend of all CSDP missions and operations by providing them with more robust and flexible mandates; stresses the need to strengthen theirnational resilience and effectiveness by enabling them to better address hybrid security challenges, such across Europe and cease through better cooperation with other EU actors and like-minded partners outside the EUe Commission´s meddling in third states' internal and external affairs;
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Considers it important that EU interventions are based on athe Commission shall clear understanding of the types of crisis and conflictse interventions in third countries as the EU seelacks to respohe mandate and to,he esxpecially where others are not willing or able to intervene or in non-permissive environments in the futurertise to deal with these issues;
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the persistent and structural problem of ensuring thatall 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 ambitionssince the unfortunate inception of the concept by the Commission, plagued by un-motivated and insufficiently skilled staff that are unable to be accountable for the funds and human resources entrusted to them and unable to even partly fulfilling the mission objectives; strongly urges Member States to work for the abolishment of CSDP Mission and concentrate on measures to create resilience and security for their own people;
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for faster operationalisation of the Rapid Deployment Capacity (RDC) based on the increased readiness of Member States’ military forces; 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;deleted
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution
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;
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution
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 EU-NATO Declaration; 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;deleted
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 453 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. 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;deleted
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 464 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for stronger military-security cooperation with Western Balkan countries, in particular in areas such as resilience, cybersecurity, hybrid threats, counter-terrorism and countering disinformationhalting mass-migration, combating: the use of weapons of mass-migration; drugs- and arms-trafficking; organised crime and terrorism;
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET
Amendment 492 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 – indent 1
- setting up a full Committee on Security and Defence;deleted
2022/10/10
Committee: AFET