[ParlTrack]

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)

- having regard to the European Court of Auditors Review No 09/2019: European defence,

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 b (new)

- having regard to Article 2(4) of the UN Charter,

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 c (new)

- having regard to the Arms Trade Treaty,

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas according to Article 42(2) of the TEU, the common security and defence policy (CSDP) includes the progressive framing of a common EU defence policy, which could lead to common defence being put in place, but does not require such a common EU defence policy;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas Article 41(2) of the TEU prohibits the use of the EU Budget for military or defence operations;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas PESCO is incompatible with a state policy of neutrality, as in the case of Ireland;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas Article 1(b) of Protocol 10 states that the Member States are to ‘have the capacity to supply by 2010 at the latest either at national level or as a component of multinational force groups, targeted combat units for the missions planned, structured at a tactical level as a battle group, with support elements including transport and logistics, capable of carrying out the tasks referred to in Article 43 of the Treaty on European Union, within a period of five to 30 days, in particular in response to requests from the United Nations Organisation, and which can be sustained for an initial period of 30 days and be extended up to at least 120 days’; whereas ~~Article 1(b) needs to be revis~~the Battlegroups have never been deployed sin ~~order to respond to the challenging geo~~ce their establishment in 2007, owing to oppolsiti~~cal environment; whereas the Member States are still far from achieving this goal~~on on the part of Member States and the complexity of their implementation and funding, which is at odds with the original objective of speed and efficiency;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the three-fold level of ambition under the EU Global Strategy in the field of security and defence covers securing external borders, countering hybrid threats and fighting against terrorism; whereas no Member State can protect itself alone, since security and defence threats faced by the EU, and which are targeted against its citizens and territory, are a joint threat and cannot be addressed by one single Member State on its own; whereas an effective EU system for addressing burden-sharing would be advantageous for the EU’s overall level of security and defence;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas PESCO’s long-term vision is to achieve a coherent full-spectrum force package available to the Member States; whereas PESCO should enhance the EU’s capacity to act as an international security provider in order to protect EU citizens and maximise the effectiveness of defence spending; whereas the cost of non-Europe in security and defence is estimated to be more than EUR 100 billion per year;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic has shown the ~~consequences of the EU not having enough competence when it comes to health care; whereas, by~~ need for the EU to urgently focus on resourcing and supporting healthe s~~ame analogy, it would make sense to establish an EU common defence strategy in order to b~~ystems across the abl~~e to respond to an attack on the EU’s borders and territories; whereas PESCO constitutes an important step towards achieving the objective of a common defence~~oc which have been undermined by years of neoliberal policy;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)

Ga. whereas the Commission established the Group of Personalities on Defence Research in 2015 as an advisory body to set out the agenda for an EU military research programme; whereas the group was heavily dominated by the arms industry and included the CEOs of arms companies MBDA, Indra, Saab Airbus, BAE Systems, Leonardo S.p.A (formerly Finmeccanica), and the Chair of ASD, the European arms industry lobbying group; whereas the Commission’s directorate for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW) had 37 meetings between 2013 and 2016 with the arms industry to discuss the Preparatory Action on Defence Research; and whereas the Commission proposes to mobilise tens of billions from the EU budget and Member State contributions through the European Defence Fund for the research and development of weapons and military equipment;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)

Gb. whereas the European Defence Fund creates a self-fulfilling and continuous loop between supply and demand for security and defence hardware, funded with public money; and whereas this creates the spectre of a permanent European war economy and entrenched military industrial complex;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas according to Council decision 2017/2315, establishing PESCO enhanced defence capabilities of the Member States will also benefit NATO, while strengthening the European pillar within the alliance and responding to repeated calls for stronger transatlantic burden-sharing;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas PESCO creates a binding framework between the pMS, which committed themselves to jointly investing, planning, developing and operating defence capabilities within Union framework in a permanent and structured manner by subscribing to 20 binding commitments in five areas set by the TEU; whereas these commitments ~~should constitute a move from mere defence cooperation towards the integration of Member States’ defence forces; whereas despite these binding commitments, no effective com~~under the PESCO framework will further militarise the EU; whereas the enthusiasm of many pMS for PESCO is limited, as exemplified by the lack of progress to date in significantly embedding PESCO into national defence plian~~ce mechanism for PESCO is in place~~ning processes;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

Ia. whereas PESCO is only the most egregious example of a broader strategy to normalise militarism in the EU; whereas militarism that is normalised will be transferred to other domains such as migration or development; whereas this is already happening, in particular at Europe’s borders;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)

Ib. whereas militarism reduces the resources available for other public investments like health and social security, hinders the capacity to examine or address the structural causes of insecurity and risk, and in this way produces new insecurities and deepens existing ones;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)

Ic. whereas according to the European Court of Auditors Review No 09/2019: European defence, the key PESCO concept of ‘strategic autonomy’ is overly vague and broad, lacks a clear military translation, and is unhelpfully used in various contexts and meanings; whereas the same Review points out that there are clear strategic differences between EU Member States in terms of defence, no common perception of threats nor a common vision of the EU’s role, as well as different rules of engagement and a wide range of views on the use of military force;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas the pMS do not pay enough attention to the 20 binding commitments to which they have subscribed, and not enough progress has been achieved with regard to significantly embedding PESCO into national defence planning processes;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas PESCO was originally conceived as an avant-garde, comprising the Member States willing and able to upgrade their cooperation in defence to a new level of ambition; whereas the fact that there are 25 pMS means that PESCO is at risk of being constrained by the ‘lowest common denominator’ approach;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital L

L. whereas work on the first three waves of PESCO projects has led to the pMS proposing 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~~much progress or are at risk of being stopped, and around 30 projects are still in the ideation and preparatory phase;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. whereas ~~only~~ the most ~~strategic~~far-reaching PESCO projects, such as EUFOR Crisis Response Operation Core (EUFOR CROC), have ~~the potential to decisively contribute to the creation of a coherent full spectrum force package~~been driven by certain Member States, and whereas many other Member States have serious doubts about the desirability of both the PESCO project and the goal of creating a European army;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas major European defence projects such as the Future Air Combat System (FCAS) and the Main Ground Combat System (MGCS) currently remain outside the scope of PESCO; whereas their integration within the remit of PESCO would provide for sufficient strategic focus;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

~~O. whereas it is crucial to fill the capability gaps identified in the Capability Development Plan (CDP), and by the Coordinated Annual Defence on Review (CARD);~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital P

P. whereas only some of the current PESCO projects do sufficiently address the most obvious capability gaps 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;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital Q

~~Q. whereas the consistency between PESCO, CARD, national implementation plans (NIPs) and the CDP has to be further improv~~deleted;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital R

~~R. whereas the NATO Defence Planning Process (NDPP) drives defence national planning processes in most cases;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital S

S. whereas interactions between Member States’ national priorities, EU priorities and NATO priorities should be synchronised at the earliest possible convenience; whereas PESCO can be an effective tool in order to achieve EU and NATO targets simultaneously;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital T

T. whereas in conjunction with the EU Global Strategy, a specific defence and security strategy, such as the EU Security and Defence White Book suggested in numerous Parliament reports, could facilitate a shared understanding of current and future challenges and provide important guidance to PESCO and the CDP deriving from an understanding of strategic ambitions and actions to be taken in the long ruwill face resistance from Member States suspicious of further defence integration;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital U

U. whereas currently, PESCO projects are dependent on the 25 participating Member States’ financial contributions; whereas it is expected that, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, national defence budgets will, rightly, suffer reductions; whereas paradoxically, several of the currently 47 PESCO projects, if funded accordingly, could strengthen Member States’ preparedness, should another massive public health crisis occur: military mobility – a flagship PESCO project –, the European Medical Command and many other projects in areas related to logistics and transportation, health care, disaster relief and the fight against malicious cyber activities; whereas cutting funding for the strategic capabilities that the EU and its Member States currently lack would also weaken their ability to jointly act against future pandemics as public funds are directed to where they are needed; whereas a joint and coordinated approach to a second wave or to future pandemics will not be best achieved through defence strategy, projects or funding;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital V

V. whereas the prospect of co- financing certain PESCO projects via the future European Defence Fund (EDF) has led pMS to multiply their proposals, and ~~despite the fact that this has encouraged exchanges and cooperation,~~ not all proposals necessarily have the EU’s best strategic interest in mind; whereas this is evidence that many pMS are already chafing against the PESCO straitjacket;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital V a (new)

Va. whereas according to the European Court of Auditors Review No 09/2019, without US capabilities, the EU members of NATO would need to spend several hundred billion euros to overcome the capabilities gap;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
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;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital X

X. whereas, with regard to the current role of the Political and Security Committee (PSC) in the context of PESCO and capability development, Parliament has already requested that ‘the mandate of the PSC referred to in Article 38 TEU needs to be interpreted narrowly’;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Recital Y

Y. whereas the governance of PESCO is led by pMS, and therefore eventually leads to the insufficient coordination and overall consistency of the projects; whereas this should constitute grounds for ~~the extension of the mandate of the PESCO secretaria~~questioning the wisdom and utility of the entire project;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b

(b) define the Union’s strategic vision, by, inter alia, implementing the level of ambition defined by the 2016 EU Global Strategy in the ongoing work of the Strategic Compass and, strengthen PESCO’s operational dimension;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c

~~(c) prepare, on the basis of the results of the discussion on the Strategic Compass, a fully-fledged EU Security and Defence White Book;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d

(d) encourage the pMS to switch from a strictly national focus on defence to a European one and to undertake structured efforts to increase the use of European collaborative approach as a priority, as no individual pMS alone has the potential to address identified capacity shortfalls;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e

~~(e) maintain the EU’s budgetary ambition for the strengthening of defence capabilities, notably thought the sufficient financing of EDF in the upcoming MFF;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f

~~(f) ensure that PESCO is effectively used as an instrument to reach EU defence integration as a common goal, in line with the ambition for greater EU Strategic Autonomy;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g

~~(g) ensure that the funding of PESCO projects by the EDF is focused on a limited set of strategic key projects, in line with the HCIG of the CDP, in order to maximise its impact;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h

(h) ensure that PESCO is treated as a Union institutions sui generis, as is the case with the European External Action Service (EEAS), which would require amending the Financial Regulation8 in order to include PESCO, with a specific section in the Union budget; recognise that Parliament, jointly with the Council, exercises legislative and budgetary functions, as well as functions of political control and consultation as laid down in the Treaties; _________________ 8deleted OJ L 193, 30.7.2018, p. 1.

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i

~~(i) incorporate directly into the PESCO project cycle the link between PESCO and EDIDP/EDF; impose the documentation of each project, before selection on the budgetary side;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j

~~(j) focus PESCO efforts on projects with a strategic and integrative dimension, such as EUFOR CROC, and link those to other PESCO projects in order to create additional synergies and effects of scale;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k

~~(k) ensure that future key land, sea, air and other platforms for the armed forces of the Member States are brought under PESCO or are at least closely connected to it;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
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;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m

~~(m) group PESCO projects into capability clusters and make a distinction between strategically relevant and other projects;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n

(n) promote compliance with the 20 PESCO commitments by establishing clearer definition of compliance benchmarks, and by ensuring that future project proposals must address a specific CDP priority; ensure that any reviews of project progress should be based on clear and transparent criteria; ensure that such criteria serve as benchmark for all Member States participating in PESCO projects;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o

(o) use the synergies between the PESCO project cycle and other defence capability processes such as CARD, HLG and EDF in order to enable more mature and well-documented projects to be submitted; allow projects to be submitted outside the cycle in order to enable the synchronised implementation of several European initiatives, including the EDF;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p

~~(p) consider giving CDP a more binding character;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
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 Member State(s) in charge of project coordination;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r

(r) clarify the role of the Political and Security Committee in the PESCO process, which is not provided for by the TEU, and ensure, in this context, the central role played by the European Union Military Committee (EUMC) in the provision of ad hoc military advice to the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s

~~(s) involve the EUMC in the work of defining a full spectrum force package;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point t

(t) establish an EU Council on Defence based on the existing EDA ministerial Steering Board and the PESCO format of EU Defence Ministers, in order to guarantee the prioritisation of resources, and the effective cooperation and integration among the Member States;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u

~~(u) clarify or define the link between the governance of PESCO and that of the EDF and to involve Parliament in the ex- post control process when it comes to EDF funding of PESCO projects;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point v

~~(v) consider, as requested by some of the pMS, to change the cycle of submission of PESCO projects in order to potentially achieve increased focus, maturity and structure of such projects;~~deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point w

(w) clarify the rules governing third- party participation in PESCO, taking into consideration the importance of EU decision-making autonomy and full reciprocity, with a case-by-case approach considered to be most beneficial for the EU;deleted

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Strongly rejects the implementation of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) as a step towards the creation of an EU Defence Union; stresses that this provision, introduced in the 2009 Lisbon Treaty (Article 46 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) includes a set of commitments which will further militarise the EU;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Rejects the Commission’s proposal of June 2017 to create a European Defence Fund (EDF), which would foster cooperation between Member States and support the European defence industry; notes that this proposal is the first initiative for which Union funds are to be used in direct support of defence projects; rejects, also, the adoption by the Commission in March 2019 of the first European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) and the publication of nine calls for proposals for 2019, including for the Eurodrone; rejects also the recent announcement of 16 pan-European defence industrial projects and three disruptive technology projects that will benefit from €205 million financing through the two precursor programmes of a fully-fledged European Defence Fund: the Preparatory Action on Defence Research (PADR) and the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP); notes the link between the procurement decisions taken today by the Member States and the prospects for industrial and technological cooperation under the EDF; recalls that the setting-up of the new heading V on Security and Defence, the EU defence research programme, European Defence Fund and Military Mobility clearly violate the provisions laid down in Article 41(2)TEU which states that any expenditure arising from actions having military or defence implications must not be charged to the Union budget; denounces and deeply deplores the unprecedented speed with which the EU is being militarised; emphasises that the evidence is overwhelming that the most effective method of preserving and promoting peace and stability is to focus on poverty eradication, sustainable and fair economic development and an end to the facilitation of tax evasion, corruption and capital flight by the global financial system, peaceful and diplomatic conflict resolution, disarmament, demobilisation of troops and reintegration programmes;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Notes the cuts to the European Defence Fund proposed by both the Finnish Presidency of the Council of the EU in December 2019 and in the draft European Council conclusions for the MFF and own resources for the 2021- 2027 period in February 2020; welcomes the proposed cuts in the allocation to the European Defence Fund in the new MFF from €13 billion to €8 billion; calls for the Fund to be abolished;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 d (new)

1d. Deplores the PESCO commitment from participating Member States to increase defence spending to 2% of GDP and to earmark 20% of that sum for investment in defence capabilities;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 e (new)

1e. Rejects the notion of European strategic autonomy being dependent on the establishment of European defence cooperation in the technological, capability, industrial and operational fields; considers that only practical, flexible, strictly peaceful and civil cooperation based on pragmatic initiatives will make it possible to face common challenges, forge a genuine common strategic culture, and shape common responses tailored to the continent’s main security issues; stresses that strategic autonomy can only be genuinely achieved if Member States demonstrate solidarity with each other; considers that the principle of European strategic autonomy formulated as an ambition to increase military spending and to further the militarisation of the EU is ethically and morally illegitimate;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 f (new)

1f. Deeply regrets the recent significant increases in defence budgets across the bloc and the increase in defence expenditure across the EU for the sixth year in a row in 2019; is of the opinion that this should be not be supported or encouraged at Union level; adds that military personnel should be guaranteed a living wage;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 g (new)

1g. Regrets the efforts by the European institutions and some Member States, following on from the publication of the EU Global Strategy, to breathe new life into the hitherto virtual instruments of the CSDP and to fully implement the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty; stresses that these ambitions must not be consolidated and followed up with any further practical action;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 h (new)

1h. Considers that Europe’s security is best defended by focusing on poverty eradication, sustainable and fair economic development, an end to the facilitation of tax evasion, corruption and capital flight by the global financial system, peaceful and diplomatic conflict resolution, disarmament, demobilisation of troops and reintegration programmes;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 i (new)

1i. Notes that the Union currently has a presence on three continents through the deployment of 17 civilian or military missions (11 civilian and six military); recognises that none of these missions have contributed substantially to peace, international security, and stability;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 j (new)

1j. Stresses the importance of pursuing conflict resolution as a priority and a decisive shift away from security and defence, and in particular away from security and defence strategies predicated on increased military spending;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 k (new)

1k. Considers Union financing for military CSDP missions prohibited in line with Article 41(2) TEU, which outlines that expenditure arising from operations having military or defence implications shall not be funded by the Union budget; regrets, in this regard, the proposal by the VP/HR, backed by the Commission, to create a European Peace Facility, which would finance part of the costs of EU defence activities, including the joint costs of CSDP military operations and weaponry and military equipment; deplores the fact that the EPF will enable the transfer of billions of euro of public money to arms companies to produce arms for export to states in Africa and elsewhere, where they will inevitably perpetuate existing conflicts and almost certainly spark others; recognises that the concept of military peace support operations proposed as part of the Facility is a contradiction in terms; emphasises that the evidence overwhelmingly shows that the most effective method of preserving and promoting peace and stability is to focus on poverty eradication, sustainable and fair economic development and an end to the facilitation of tax evasion, corruption and capital flight by the global financial system, peaceful and diplomatic conflict resolution, disarmament, demobilisation of troops and reintegration programmes;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 l (new)

1l. Notes the failure of the Union’s Battlegroup project and the fact that Battlegroups have never been deployed, owing in particular to opposition on the part of Member States and the complexity of their implementation and funding, which is at odds with the original objective of speed and efficiency; stresses that the battlegroups must be dismantled immediate effect;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

Clare DALY, Mick WALLACE, Manu PINEDA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 m (new)

1m. Opposes the creation of the Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC) for the operational planning and conduct of the EU’s non-executive military missions; rejects any military- civilian operations and any subordination of areas of civilian competence to the military;

2020/07/08
Committee: AFET

69 Amendments of Clare DALY related to 2020/2080(INI)

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