Activities of Scott AINSLIE
Plenary speeches (4)
European Parliament's position on the Conference on the Future of Europe (debate)
Implementing and monitoring the provisions on citizens’ rights in the Withdrawal Agreement (debate)
Climate and ecological emergency (topical debate)
Foreign electoral interference and disinformation in national and European democratic processes (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2018
Institutional motions (3)
JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on India’s Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 PDF (149 KB) DOC (50 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on India’s Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 PDF (139 KB) DOC (48 KB)
MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the situation at the USA-Mexican border PDF (149 KB) DOC (50 KB)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 4 #
2019/2135(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that in the current global security environment, an integral part of the EU’s strategic autonomyCommon Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) should be the independent capacity to guarantee the security of its own citizens by activly promoting peace, stability, human rights and democracy in its neighbourhood and beyond and to promote its values;
Amendment 8 #
2019/2135(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that the support of EU citizens is crucial to underpinning the political ambition of EU defence policyeffective civilian and military CSDP missions and operations; underlines the fact that according to the latest public opinion surveys, three quarters of EU citizens are in favour of more cooperation between Member States on security and defence, thus supporting a common defence and security policy for the Member States, a proportion that has remained above 70% since 2004;
Amendment 13 #
2019/2135(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes Commission President- elect von der Leyen’s political guidelines, which are framed around a ‘geopolitical’ dimension and stress the need to take further bold steps in the next five years towards a genuine European Defence Union; welcomes, moreover, further commitments to deliver on Parliament’s long-standing request to attach greater institutional prominence to defence, with making the Union a credible and effective security actor ; calls for more in depthe proposed creation of a dedicated directorate-general to that endarliamentary scrutiny of CSDP;
Amendment 19 #
2019/2135(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that an EU white book on security and defence would be an essential strategic tool to reinforce the governance of EU defence policy and the progredescribe possible scenarios for possivble framing of the European Defence Unuture military operations, would provide for strategic, long-term planning and allow for the gradual synchronisation of defence cycles across the Member States; calls on the Council and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR) to draw up such a tool, with a view to including it in, inter alia, the planning for the multiannual financial framework (MFF), and with the further objective of ensuring consistency between the EU Global Strategy Implementation Plan on Security and Defence, the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD) and the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO);
Amendment 22 #
2019/2135(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that deeper integration in security and defence should also mean more democratic scrutiny through parliamentary control; reiterates the need, therefore, to strengthen Parliament’s role in this area, namely by establishing a fully- fledged Committee on Security and Defence, which should be complemented by including through joint interparliamentary meetings between representatives from national parliaments and MEPs;
Amendment 26 #
2019/2135(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates the need to remove obstacles to the deployment of the EU Battlegroups, and considers that the unanimity requirement in the Council undermines the very purpose of these groups – to act as a military rapid-reaction capacity that responds to emerging crises and conflicts around the world; believes that there is the need to transform these groups into permanent multinational units of modest size;
Amendment 31 #
2019/2135(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that the upcoming Conference on the Future of Europe should include reflections on the future European Defence Union and, in particular, the need tohow the Union could become a more effective and effective security actor and, in particular, should consider transforming the current capabilities into permanently pooled national contingents forming multinational units of modest size, highly skilled and designed for specific tasks establishing a European intervention force endowed with sufficiently effective defence capabilities to engage in peace- keeping and conflict prevention and strengthen international security in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the tasks set out in Article 43(1) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU);
Amendment 40 #
2019/2135(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Highlights its support for the establishment of an EU autonomous intelligence capacity, which should enhance common security endeavours and ensure interoperability amongst national intelligence servicesCalls for strengthening civilian CSDP and Union measures in the field of conflict prevention, mediation and reconciliation;
Amendment 41 #
2019/2135(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for a reflection about the role that the European Defence Agency should play in the progressive framing of a common EU defence policyCSDP;