Activities of Vladimír BILČÍK related to 2021/2182(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2021 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2021 (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2021
Amendments (6)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes the Union’s committed relationship with NATO, which remains fundamental to EU security policy; underlines the importance of strengthening the strategic partnership between EU and NATO; notes that the recent global security challenges have brought forward a renewed debate on EU’s strategic autonomy; welcomes, in this regard, the ongoing preparation of the new EU-NATO Joint Declaration, which will be presented before the end of the year;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for increased efforts to fight foreign disinformation and information manipulinterference and manipulative disinformation, which negatively influence the Union’s ability to implement effectively its internal and foreign policies and undermines the values on which the EU is founded; notes the increase of disinformation campaigns linked to the COVID-19 pandemic and the negative role certain state and non-state actors played in the dissemination of these campaigns;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Reiterates its calls for the use of Article 31(2) TEU, which allows the Council to take certain decisions on CFSP matters by Qualified Majority Voting (QMV), and the ‘passerelle clause’ contained in Article 31(3) TEU) to switch progressively to QMV for decisions in the area of the CFSP that do not have military or defence implications in order to improve the speed of the EU’s responses to a fast-changing global environment;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Regrets that there is no structured EU-UK cooperation in the area of foreign, security and defence policy; calls for the full and effective implementation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) and Withdrawal Agreement (WA), in particular the provisions related to the cooperation on global issues in multilateral fora, promotion of democracy, rule of law and human rights, climate change, sanctions regimes, non- proliferation and disarmament, fight against terrorism and cybersecurity; welcomes the setting up of the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership Assembly and calls for its swift constitution and start of work;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Recalls that in its position on the Conference on the Future of Europe, the European Parliament listed "Security and the role of EU in the world" as one of the policy priorities; welcomes that this was, inter alia, translated into the plenary Working Group on "EU in the world"; underlines the importance of debating issues linked to the future of CFSP at the Conference;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Offers other EU institutions its active particiCalls for the active involvement of European Parliament’s instruments into the CFSP; underlines the importance and the unique set of European Parliament’s democratisation programs aimed at fostering and strengthening the work of parliaments, such as the Jean Monnet Dialogue; recalls that all EU institutions should partioncipate and work together in activities that aim to counteract the global backsliding of democracy, including through election observation, mediation and dialogue activities, conflict prevention, the Sakharov Prize award and network and parliamentary diplomacy.;