Activities of Anna BONFRISCO related to 2020/2080(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy concerning the implementation and governance of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas PESCO’s long-term vision is to achieve a coherent full-spectrum force package available to the Member States, deepening their collaboration on defence; 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 secuscope and efficiency of the defence spending, and always complementaritly and defence is estimated to be more than EUR 100 billion per yearmutually reinforcing with NATO;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
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; bearing in mind that out of 30 Member countries 22 are EU Member states;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
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 progress or are at risk of being stopped, and around 30 projects are still in the ideation and preparatory phase; the impact of the PESCO projects is unknown;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
(c) prepare, on the basis of the results of the discussion onuse the Strategic Compass, as the fully-fledged EU Security and Defence White Bookplan, which contains a global and comprehensive analysis and assessment of common threats and challenges, for the protection of our citizens and for securing our interests;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
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;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) consider, as part of the reform of the EU Battlegroup system, to bring it undertake advantage of PESCO, in order to increase its operational capacity, modularity and agility;
Amendment 303 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p
Paragraph 1 – point p
(p) consider giving CDP a more binding characterimplementing CDP in order to increase coherence between Member States’ defence planning;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q
Paragraph 1 – point q
(q) define a framework for 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 from Member State(s) in charge of project coordination;