2 Amendments of Inese VAIDERE related to 2013/2146(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
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1. Considers that significant geostrategic changes are taking place, owing in particular to the rise of a multipolar international scene with new actors pursuing competitive regional and global ambitions, growing interdependency, the rise of multidimensional asymmetric threats, the refocusing of US security policy towards the Asia-Pacific, and a severe and long-lasting global financial and economic crisis affecting all EU Member States;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
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3. Emphasises that the strength of the EU lies in its potential to mobilise resources across the full range of diplomatic, security, defence, economic, development and humanitarian instruments – in full compliance with the provisions of the UN Charter – and that using these instruments in a comprehensive approach (CA) gives it a unique flexibility to effectively address the most challenging international issues and achieve its own policy goals;