12 Amendments of Thierry MARIANI related to 2022/2051(INL)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Conference on the Future of Europe served as an unprecedented platform for discussion between citizens and politicians andartificial project to bypass democratic institutions and has resulted in concrepre-written proposals that need to be honoured even if they necessitated Treaty changesreacted with indifference; notes with regret that the process was fundamentally undemocratic, lacked transparency, legitimacy and is not binding in any legal sense;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas honouring those recommendations would make the Union a stronger and more visible global player, would lead to more efficient decision- making and would improve the European Parliament’s scrutiny rights in the field of foreign policy being the only democratically elected institution of the Unionuper State;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the main citizens’ recommendations in the field of foreign and security policy, notably the need to switch to more efficient decision-making, through the use of qualified majority voting (QMV) instead of unanimity, and the need to improve the Union’s methods to impose sanctions, not to be incorporated in a Treaty change; calls the European institutions to stop bypassing the citizens of the Member States by seeking to emancipate themselves from their main means of expression: the vote;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that Article 48(7) and Article 31(3) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) contain passerrelle clauses that can make switching from unanimity to qualified majority voting possible in the area of common foreign and security policy (CFSP) without military implications; calls for a switch toto maintain QMV in all decisions in the field of CFSP, notably those concerning sanctions and human rights, as the passerelle clauses have never been used due to the lack of political will;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for an amendment ofstrengthening Article 42 TEU that would allow switchingin order to preinforced QMV, requiring 72% of Council members representing at least 65% of population,serve the unanimity rule in the Council, which is the only way to respect national sovereignty, especially for decisions with military implications;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need to strengthen the role of the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Unioat Member States remain free to determine their own for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and to ensure that the Union speaks with one voice, as requested by the citizens of the Union in the Conference on the Future of Europe; points out that his can be done through a Treaty change that would name the Vice-President/High Representative a foreign minister of the Union, would make him or her the main external representative of the Union in international fora and would allow him or her to be present ex-officio in negotiating formats initiated or led by thepolicy and that an increased role for the European Union and its bodies in this regard would severely undermine the sovereignty of Member States;
Amendment 79 #
5. Considers it necessary to broaden the scope of threats defined in the mutual defence clause stipulated in Article 42(7) TEU to include hybrid threats, disinformation campaigns and economic coercion by third countriepotential threats from countries presented as like-minded partners;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Requests the strengthening ofat the role of Union delegations in the implementation of foreign policy by amending the wording of Article 221 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) not be strengthened as this would create unnecessary duplication of actions in countries where Member States already have diplomatic representation;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for inclusion of the principle of “strategic autonomy” not to be included into the list of objectives to be achieved through the Union’s foreign and security policy enshrined in Article 21 TEU, since the term is vague and has not been adequately defined;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for inclusion of the principle of “strategic autonomy” of the Member States into the list of objectives to be achieved through the Union’s foreign and security policy enshrined in Article 21 TEU;
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for the introduction of provisions in Articles 42 and 46 TEU enabling the joint procurement of defence equipment and other security-related spending from the budget of the Union as well as the establishment of joint military units and command structures;