3 Amendments of Jérôme RIVIÈRE related to 2021/2115(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Notes growing instability and the rise of unprecedented challenges in the international environment, which increased demands on the Union to act as a global playertogether with the Member States, which must remain sovereign in matters of foreign policy;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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2. Highlights the central role played byWants the European External Action Service (EEAS) in conducting the Union’s external policy and welcomes that it lived up to the many challenges over the 10 years of its existence; notes, however, that enhanced EEAS performance has to be underpinned by a corresponding staff increase; calls for sufficient human resources to be made available in order to deliverto focus primarily on analysis and research; opposes any programmed increase in its staff; calls, in particular, for the EEAS not to recruit independently but to do so on the basis of diplomats being made available from the respective diplomatic corps onf the Union’s external policy prioritiMember States;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
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4. Welcomes the ECA’s Special Report on Disinformation affectingConsiders that the desire on the part of 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 and malicious foreign influence; underlines the impin particular the EEAS, to tackle issues relating to ‘disinformation’ is about taking subjective positions vis-à-vis third countries; calls fort ance of the EEAS Strategic Communication Task Force and calls for providing it end to the activities of the Task Force on Disinformation within the necessary financial and personnel resourcesEEAS;