Activities of Anneli JÄÄTTEENMÄKI 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 (16)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the international system and the whole international risk map is undergoing rapid and profound change, driven by the shift of power towards emerging international actors and deepening interdependence encompassing economic and financial affairs, climate change, energy and resource scarcity, and interconnected security challenges;
Amendment 20 #
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 civiliancivilian and military resources, to plan and run effective crisis management operations across the entire 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 45 #
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 securitycontributing to peace and security in the world 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 situations 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 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the European Council and its President to set about this task by engaging in political dialogue with the European Parliament and to discuss Parliament's, Member States, and civil society and discussing the recommendations; maintains that such a dialogue is required in the light of the new Treaty provisions and of the need to lay down and implement the foreign policy strategy, proceeding from an effective comprehensive approach;
Amendment 74 #
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 withuch as development cooperation policy, trade, energy, environment, climate change, agriculture, fisheries etc; 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 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Deplores the fact that the provisional organisation chart of the EEAS does not include the ‘appropriate structure’ which, under the Madrid accords, is to integrate the various units dealing with crisis response planning and programming, conflict prevention, and peace-building with the CSDP structures; calls for a conflict prevention and crisis management board to be set up, to be staffed by the CMPD, the CCPC, the EUMS, the EU SITCEN, the peace- building, conflict prevention, mediation, and security policy units, the Chair of the PSC, the geographical desks and other policy departments concerned, according to the circumstances, and the Commission humanitarian aid and civil protection structures, placed under the authority of the HR and the executive Secretary-General, and coordinated by the Managing Director for Crisis Response; calls on the national crisis management boards and crisis management centres to be directly connected to this process, by assuring the flow of situational information to the both directions; calls on the High Representative and the Commission to equip the board with an efficient alert and emergency system and a large unified operations room, located within the EEAS, so as to enable surveillance to be carried out 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, hence avoiding the present operational overlapping (seven operations rooms), which hardly squares with the need for a proper surveillance and rapid reaction system to deal with crises;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Believes that the Crisis Management Board should be responsible on the one hand for forward planning in relation to potential theatres and crisis scenarios and secondly for, long term systematic conflict prevention, and practical crisis response management, working both in Brussels and on the ground to coordinate the use of the various financial instruments and deployment of capabilities available to the EU, without undermining the specific decision-making procedures and legal bases applying to the deployment of civilian and military capabilities under the CFSP/CSDP or to the use of Community instruments;
Amendment 124 #
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, the Nordic countries defence cooperation and surveillance system at the Gulf of Finland between Finland, Estonia, and Russia, and hopes that ithey 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;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Recognises that within the CSDP development process, the time has now come for the political achievement and the institutional achievement to be followed by a genuine achievement as regards civilian and military capabilities; points out that the provisions introduced by the Lisbon Treaty offer great potential for promoting the development of those capabilities and laying down a progressive framework for the EU's defence policy and maintains that they need to be put to effective use as a matter of urgency;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31a. Regrets the lack of resources in civilian crisis management; stresses the need for continuous development of training, expertise and strategic level planning taking better into account the realities on the ground; recalls civilian expertise in the executive and management levels of planning and conducting civilian crisis management missions; advises the EEAS to make constant efforts in improving the working conditions of the civilian crisis management workers and to invest in their professional well being and safety;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Encourages the head of the Agency/VP/HR and the Commission to seek strong cooperation between the EDA and the Commission with a view to enhancing dual-use capability in order to make for better synergistic management of civilian-military resources, in particular through the security chapter of the framework programme for research and technological development; accordingly welcomes the prospect of the eighth framework programme, which will also cover external security; emphasises the need for integration and better targeting of the DG funded projects and Framework Programme projects;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Urges the participating Member States to treat participation in the EDA as a permanent commitment and provide the Agency, CMPD, and CPCC with the necessary human and economic resources; calls for the expenditure earmarked for operational projects and studies (which has hitherto accounted – on average – for about 25% of the budget) to be raised in the unwelcome event that vetoes on budget increases were to continue for a lengthy period;
Amendment 216 #
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 using the model developed by the US, which interconnects the US State Department and the DHS information networks linked to the prevention of terrorism; stresses that the risks to privacy and the ethical implications of this need to be taken into account with the interconnection;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
58. UrgStresses 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 playerquality of the missions is more important than the quantity; urges that the effectiveness of the missions shall be measured and the idea of conflict prevention missions shall be elaborated; stresses that the EU needs proper impact assessment of current and previous missions;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66
Paragraph 66
66. Recommends, as regards gender mainstreaming in line with UNSCR 1325 and to make civilian and military missions more effectives, that female personnel be involved in the appropriate manner at every level of crisis management; emphasises the need for women to be included in senior level decision-making positions, regular consultations with the civil society including women’s organisations, and to enhance capacity to work on gender issues within missions;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76
Paragraph 76
76. Points to the fundamental importance of the African continent for the EU's security and for peacekeeping and conflict prevention; supports close cooperation between the EU and the African Union within the Peace and Security Partnership in conjunction with the Africa-EU Joint Strategy; favours greater involvement and responsibility of the African Union, especially where crisis management is concerned, and reaffirms the need for the Commission and the Member States to play their part by taking practical measures to combat trafficking in, and the spread of, light weapons and small arms; endorses the pledge in the Tripoli Declaration to make the African peace and security architecture fully operational;