Activities of Ana GOMES related to 2010/2299(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Main aspects of the common foreign and security policy and the common security and defence policy - Situation in Syria and in Camp Ashraf - Report: Albertini - Annual report from the Council to Parliament on the main aspects of CFSP in 2009 - Report: Gualtieri - Development of CSDP following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty - Report: Muñiz De Urquiza - The EU as a global actor: its role in multilateral organisations (debate)
Amendments (32)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the international system is undergoing rapid and profound change, driven by the shift of power towards emerging international actors and deepening interdependence encompassing economic and financial affairproblems, climate change, energy and resource scarcity, and interconnected security challenges;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises that, in a turbulent global context and at a time of economic and financial crisis, the EU is being called upon to become an autonomous strategic actor to uphold its values, pursue its interests, and protect its citizens by developing a shared vision of the main challenges and threats and aligning its resources to respond to them, thereby contributing to the preservation of international peace and stabilglobal security, including by pursuing effective multilateralism;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that strategic autonomy in security affairs entails, for the EU, the capacity to agree common political objectives and strategic guidelines, to establish strategic partnerships with a wide range of international organisations and states, to collect adequate information and generate joint analyses and assessments, to harness and where necessary pool financial, military, and civilian resources, to plan and run effective crisis management operations across the entirextended range of the Petersberg tasks, and to frame and implement a common defence policy, laying the first tangible foundations on which to build common defence;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point a
Paragraph 5 – point a
(a) the CFSP and the CSDP, which is an integral part of the former, have been placed within the legally binding institutional framework of EU principles (democracy, the rule of law, the universality and indivisibility of human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect for human dignity, the principles of equality and solidarity, and respect for the principles of the United Nations and the cCharter and of international law, including the Responsibility to Protect), and their objectives have been merged with the general objectives of the EU's external action;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 5 – point b a (new)
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point c
Paragraph 5 – point c
(c) the HR conducts the CFSP, proposes CSDP decisions, missions, and the use of national resources and Union instruments together with the Commission, and, where appropriate, coordinates their civilian and military aspects, and chairs the Foreign Affairs Council, serving also as the Commission Vice-President in charge both of the Commission's external relations responsibilities and of coordinating, and providing consistency in, EU external action as a whole;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that the duty of consistency as defined by the Treaty, the new wording of Article 40 TEU (which states that the implementation of both the CFSP and the other EU policies shall not affect the application of the respective procedures), and recent ECJ case law (see the SALW case) protect both the primacy of the Community method and the distinguishing features and prerogatives of the CFSP, while encouraging the convergence of different policies, instruments, resources, and legal bases in a holistic, comprehensive approach, whereby security becomes a cross-cutting objective of EU external and internal action and the CSDP is one of its instruments; in this context, notes that civilian and military assets can be deployed in situationemergencies other than CSDP missions, as has been shown in practice by the EU Military Staff coordination of military capabilities during the Pakistan floods in summer 2010;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the European Council to carry out its task of identifying the strategic interests and political objectives of the EU by drawing up a European fForeign pPolicy sStrategy geared to international developments, which should be based on real convergence ofwhich should promote and require real convergence of EU Member States foreign action, encompassing the different dimensions of EU external action and being subject to regular review; calls on the HR/VP and the Council to build on the concepts of human security and the Responsibility to Protect to make them central to the European Foreign Policy Strategy and translate them into tangible policy guidelines;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that the EEAS has a key role to play in bringing about an effective comprehensive approach based on full integration of the CSDP, the CFSP, and the other dimensions of EU external action, starting withnotably development cooperation, trade and energy security policyies; welcomes the outcome of the negotiations, which has served to establish the EEAS as a structure to assist the EU institutions and the various dimensions of EU external action and conferred a wide range of powers and responsibilities on it while providing a solid link to the Commission without in any way encroaching on the Commission's prerogatives; and hopes that the responsibility assigned to the EEAS for strategic planning of the main financial instruments related to EU external action will translate into genuinely coherent use thereof to further EU principles and objectives;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 – point c a (new)
Paragraph 20 – point c a (new)
(c a) renews its call for the creation of a European Civil Protection Force, based on the existing European Civil Protection Mechanism, able to be deployed in emergencies outside the EU territory, as much as inside, under the adequade CSDP/CPCC coordination;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Maintains thatReaffirms that credible and reliable military capabilities are a sine qua non for a self- containedn autonomous CSDP and an effective comprehensive approach and could be brought to bear in many different waythat Member States need to provide them; further stresses that those military capabilities can be applied for diverse purposes, not least for civilian purposones, in keeping with the principles underlying EU action on the international stage and the self- determined nature of the EU legal order;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Notes with anxietyconcern that the current economic austerity could lead to cuts in national defence budgets that were not concerted at European level and to continuing overlappingduplication that might call the CSDP as such into question, whereas the end effecdesirable result should be to push the Member States towards smarter defence spending, whereby they would pool and share a larger proportion of their defence capabilities, budget, and requirements, while achieving more security for their citizens and providing more opportunities for European industries and job creation;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Deplores the widespread overlapping of defence programmes in the EU, such as the two costly national nuclear programmes, the more than 20 armoured vehicles programmes, the 6 different attack submarine programmes, the 5 ground-to-air missile programmes, and the 3 combat aircraft programmes, and its consequences, namely that economies of scale are not achieved, limited economic resources are wasted, and the prices for European defence equipment are over-inflated;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Maintains that all of the above points should be tackled by means of a clear-cut long-term political resolve, making full use of the potential offered by the Lisbon Treaty, and that any common defence policy intended to move gradually towards common defence must serve to strengthen the EU's ability to respond to crises and long-term peace-building, and above all guarantee Europe's strategic autonomy, averting the danger that its standing might decline on the world stage; calls on the national parliaments to embark on an appropriate joint initiative in relation to their institutional partners and calls for a special European Council meeting to be given over to European defence; renews its call for the urgent elaboration of a European defence White Paper;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Strongly calls on Member States to support the European Defence Agency as the expert EU agency entrusted with the role of identifying and developing defence capabilities in the field of crisis management and of promoting and enhancing European armaments cooperation;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Takes note of the Franco-British initiative of 2 November 2010 on security and defence cooperation and hopes that it can act as a springboard for further progress at European level in line with the institutional framework and the requirements of rationalisation and technological, industrial, and operational integration from which it stemmed, as recommended by EDA;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Notes that, in addition to being a political necessity, Permanent Structural Cooperation (PESCO), as provided for in the Treaty, takes the form of a legal obligation and not an option (i.e. Member States ‘shall establish’ and not ‘may establish’); calls on the Council and the Member States to remedy their failure hitherto to act in this area by determining the aicalls on the Council and the Member States to determine the aims, terms and substance of PESCO without further delay, involving the Member States on as broad a basis as possible and, not least, assessing the advisability of implementation based on variable geometry;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Recommends that Member States commit themselves fully to the provision and sustainability of military capabilities, matching the trend towards growing emphasis on the qualitative aspect; endorses the requests made at the Ghent informal Defence Ministers' meeting and in the German-Swedish paper and the Weimar initiative and calls for the operative phase to begin without delay, in line with the December 2010 Council conclusions, in which the Defence Ministers agreed that EDA should intensify its work to facilitate the identification of areas for pooling and sharing military capabilities; calls on the Agency to list new potential cooperation projects (for instance in areas such as satellite communications, medical support, and naval logistics and cyber security) so as to avoid overlapping of costs and increase interoperability;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41a. Recommends that the implementation of the Common Position defining unified rules on the control of technology and military exports adopted on December 8 2008 be urgently reviewed, in order to ensure strict and consistent compliance by all national authorities involved in each Member State;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 b (new)
Paragraph 41 b (new)
41b. Urges Member States to abide by EDA´s Code of conduct on defence procurement and its Code of conduct on offsets, so as to prevent violations of internal market rules and reduce opportunities for corruption;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Considers that it is more and more evidenthas become increasingly clear in modern times, and especially since September 11, that many transnational threats such as terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, organised crime, cybercrime, drugs, and trafficking in human beings cannot be neutralised without coordinated action involving ‘external’ security policies and ‘internal’ legislative and political measures and tools which have already been announced with, as already highlighted in the first European Union anti- terrorism programmeAction plan (2001) and the European Union counter-terrorism sStrategy (2005); recalls that the 2008 Council implementation report of the European Security Strategy reminds that state failure affects European security, as the Somalia case illustrates;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. Considers that the European Security Strategy (2003) and the Internal Security Strategy (2010) coherently identify a number of common areas – such as terrorism, organised crime, and cybersecurity – with implications for both security dimensions; agrees, therefore, that the way of bringing together the internal and external dimensions needs to be improved, an idea which has been developed by the Commission in its communication entitled ‘The EU internal security Strategy: five steps towards a more secure Europe’, including space security;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50 – indent 2
Paragraph 50 – indent 2
– a security information model will be developed by connecting the Schengen Information System to all the other Europe-wide networks such as the VIS and Eurodac usexploring the model developed by the US, which interconnects the US State Department and the DHS information networks linked to the prevention of terrorism;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50 – indent 3
Paragraph 50 – indent 3
– the tracking of terrorism financing has recently been improvenacted by the EU-US TFTP agreement and by all the legislative measures imposing the traceability of suspect transactions;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50 – indent 4
Paragraph 50 – indent 4
– the definition of the European critical infrastructures takes into account the impact of man-made actions (such as terrorist attacks) and cyber attacks;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Welcomes the ongoing revision of the existing CSDP concepts; notes in particular that the rule of law and the Responsibility to Protect will be considered as an overarching concept covering police, justice, civilian administration, customs, border monitoring, and other relevant areas of use to planners and experts on the ground in setting up and conducting missions with strengthening and/or substitution (executive) tasks; endorses the work being done to develop the concept of CSDP justice missions, while observing that needless overlapping with possible Community programmes has to be avoided; doubts whether the kinds of tasks carried out to date in the EULEX Iraq mission conform to the characteristics of a CSDP mission; calls, in this light, for urgent detailed information to be provided by the HR/VP to the European Parliament on the hiring of private security and military companies (PMSCs) in CSDP and CFSP missions, specifying professional requirements and corporate standards demanded from contractors, applicable regulations and legal responsibilities and obligations, monitoring mechanisms, effectiveness evaluation and costs involved;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
58. Urges that the experience acquired be turned to account in order to give new impetus to missions in quantitative terms (the EUTM Somalia mission is the only new intervention to have been undertaken in the last two years) and above all qualitative terms, since missions are the acid test of the CSDP mandate and an important touchstone of the EU's credibility as an international player;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58 a (new)
Paragraph 58 a (new)
58a. calls the HR/VP to inform the European Parliament on the preparedness degree to use CSDP naval and aerial assets to enforce UNSC resolutions on arms embargos, such as the one imposed on the Gaddafi regime by the UNSC 1970/2011;
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 – indent 5
Paragraph 60 – indent 5
-in spite of its high profile and the successes which it has achieved, EU NAVFOR Somalia is being hampered by the lack of a clear regional strategy to tackle the causes of piracy and deal effectively with the chronic instability in the Horn of Africa and EUTM may prove contra-productive by enhancing military capabilities for possible militia recruits in Somalia;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. Maintains that the trend towards multipolarity in the international system and the establishment of strategic partnerships must be encompassed within an active commitment to promoting multilateralism, given that this is the dimension most consistent with respect for the rule of law universally, the specific nature of the EU and with the growing interdependence which characterises globalisation;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 70
Paragraph 70
70. Considers the role of the United Nations to be central in this context; notes that the Lisbon Treaty imposes an obligation on the EU to promote multilateral solutions, in particular within the UN, and that EU international action must be based on the principles of the UN Charter, international law and EU principles and values;
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. Calls on those Member States which have seats on the UN Security Council to defend the positions and interests of the EU and to ask the HR/VP to speak for the EU in that forum, in accordance with the Lisbon Treaty; ensure EU representation in that body and push Member States to agree on a rotation system, which will ensure a member seat for the EU at the UNSC in permanency;