5 Amendments of Jean-Lin LACAPELLE related to 2022/2090(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1 Points out that the fact the EEAS exists is helping to develop the EU’s own unwarranted powers in the field of diplomacy and foreign policy; considers that the existence of this service constitutes in itself an unjustified increase in expenditure for the EU budget;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that, in the opinion of the Court of Auditors (‘the Court’), the EEAS’s level of error in spending was not material and that the Court has not found any significant issues with its supervisory and control systems; points out, however, that the EEAS needs to provide a higher degree of transparency, especially in regard to accurately disclose the EU missions and their individual spending as well as their failure/success in fulfilling mission mandates;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. DeplorNotes the remaining lack of diversity, gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff; reiterates the importance of ensuring an intersectional distribution, greater diversity, and gender equality, as well as promotunderstands recruitment within the institutions as being a balance of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at senior management levels; calls on the EEAS to significantly improve the representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels and calls on all Member States to nominate more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEAS; draws attention to the remaining overrepresentation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation and calls for further efforts to address those imbalancessed on merit and qualifications rather than on gender and race alone, especially at senior management level; encourages the EEAS to create and share guidelines on bestgood practices onfor the conducting of recruitment procedures in order to ensure diversity, openness, fairness and transparency;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Encourages EU delegations to engage with local actors, civil society organisations and social partners in third countriesPoints out that the EU delegations replicate and tend to replace Member States’ diplomacy and are therefore detrimental to the sovereignty of the Member States; points out that the role of diplomacy is not to stimulate social dialogue. in third countries;