Activities of Radosław SIKORSKI related to 2020/2080(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Recommendation to the Council and the VPC/HR concerning the Implementation and governance of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) (short presentation)
Reports (1)
REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy concerning the implementation and governance of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas PESCO should be used to further operationalise and develop the obligation under Article 42(7) TEU of mutual aid and assistance, which was recalled by the 13 November 2017 joint notification letter on PESCO, to improve the readiness of the Member States to provide solidarity to a fellow Member State if it becomes the victim of an armed aggression on its territory;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas work on the first three waves of PESCO projects has led to the pMS proposestablishing 47 projects; whereas the current list of projects lacks coherence, strategic ambition and does not adequately address priority shortfalls as identified by the pMS; whereas one of these projects has been stopped in order to avoid unnecessary duplication; whereas other projects did not make sufficient progress or are at risk of being stopped, and around 30 projects are still in the ideation and preparatory phase;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas only some of the current PESCO projects do sufficiently address the most obvious capability gapscapability shortcomings identified under the Capability Development Plan (CDP) and CARD or already sufficiently take into account High Impact Capacity Goals (HICG) deriving from the Capability Development Plan (CDP), and should be considered as a priority;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital W
Recital W
W. whereas the participation of third countries in individual PESCO projects might be in the strategic interest of the European Union, particularly in case of the United Kingdom and Eastern Partnership partner countries, particularly those that have signed framework participation agreements with the EU;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) consider, as part of the reform of the EU Battlegroup system, to bring it under PESCO in order to increase its operational capacity, modularity and agility and to enhance the EU’s ability to conduct crisis management operations, including the most demanding ones such as peacemaking;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q
Paragraph 1 – point q
(q) define an effective and strong project steering committee, reaffirm the central role of the PESCO secretariat as a single point of contact for all projects and invite the secretariat to carry out regular situation points on the progress of projects for the benefit of all the stakeholders, including Parliament, via information collected from the Member State(s) in charge of project coordination;