17 Amendments of Dominique VLASTO related to 2010/2298(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the processes of globalisation have revealed alarming systemic failures such as inthose concerning the financial marketschitecture, social issues (exclusion, cracks in the social fabric and worsening living conditions, inequality in wealth distribution and increasing poverty) and climate change policy; whereas global threats and challenges require worldwide cooperation and collective action plans to tackle them as well as effective institutions and legitimate rules; recalling that if international organisations are to be legitimate and effective, they will have to reflect today's world,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Treaty of Lisbon provides the EU with a single – clearer and stronger – voice in the world and encourages all types of mutually beneficial EU cooperation with relevant international and regional organisations and whereas it enables the Union to organise itself in such a way as to be able to become an effective global player,
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the representation of the EU and its Member States in multilateral organisations, informal summits and international regimes is fragmented, often ineffective, and still varies considerably; whereas the Union's external representation has developed in a dispersed, inconsistent mand rather ad hoc mannerner with no view to the future; whereas a highly fragmented external representation is likely to undermine the EU's message and commitment to effective multilateralism and global governance and whereas weak EU competences and ineffective coordination mechanisms may prevent the EU from speaking with a single voice in the international arena,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the EU Member States have adopted the priority of reforming and strengthening the UN in order to make it capable of fulfilling its responsibilities and acting effectively in providing solutions to global challenges and responding to key threats,; whereas the EU provides more than one third of the UN regular budget, more than two-fifths of UN peace operations, and about half of all contributions to UN funds and programmes; whereas its financial commitment should therefore be consistent with its political weight,
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the current dramatic demographic changes will have consequences for multilateralism, as new realities will create pressureare upsetting historically established balances and changing the balance of power among the major regional groupings and world economies as new influential actors arrive on the scene and the representation of these States should be reviewed to adapt membership, seats and voting rights in multilateral organisations accordingly; whereas the EU should demand a commitment from the emerging economies to constructive behaviour in the multilateral system in exchange for rebalancing the representation, which will inevitably hit EU countries the hardest; whereas the EU's participation in emerging structures for global governance and the negotiation of new rules and principles will require compromises with those countries and new actors pushing for their voices to be heard on the international scene,
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the EU'’s mechanisms for building consensus and taking concerted action make it a role model for a rule-based global world order and therefore stresses the need to champion an international environment that will enable the EU to promote its agenda, as provided for in the Treaties, its objectives and values; considers essential, with regard to the EU's aspiration to be a global actor and to safeguard its position, the ability to shape multilateral cooperation or lead collective action in addressing international challenges;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Takes the view that EU Member States should increasingly consider and rely on the EU as a power multiplierforum for their voice to be heard to effect on the international stage helping them to achieve goals which they otherwise could not achieve on their own and that speaking with one voice not only increases the chances of them achieving an outcome that reflects their interests but boosts the legitimacy of the EU as an important international actor in the emerging interpolar world;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls that the role of the Vice- President of the Commission/High Representative is to represent and be the voice of European Union diplomacy and that for this reason her position must be affirmed in multilateral organisations;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the EU and its Member States to systematically and strategically review the present arrangements for the role and institutional representation of the Union in multilateral organisations and find ways in which the external representation of the EU can be progressively strengthened in line with the extent of its competences and the institutional innovations of the Treaty of Lisbon, with the striking of new balances between the EU institutions and its Member States, and also to carry out such a review every time a new Member State accedes to the Union; in addition, urges the EU and its Member States to identify the instances where the status quo arrangements are obsolete, anomalous or inefficient, and deserve reconsideration and change;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is of the view that in cases of exclusive Union competences, the EU should be the pre-eminent actor with, in addition to the Member States, should be a full membership of the given multilateral organisation, while its Member States may also – but not necessarily – be present as members, but usually without an independent role;; considers that the Member States and the Union should state their position after reaching consensus; under these circumstances, calls on EU Member States to reduce their representation, and thus costs, at meetings where the EU Delegation speaks on their behalf, and takes the view, furthermore, that where shared Union competences prevail, the norm should be for the EU and its Member States both to be members;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considering that the UN is the major multilateral actoronly international organisation on which all the world’s States are represented and the primary forum throughwithin which effective multilateralism can be achieved, calls on the EU and its Member States to seek to enhance the EU's role and capacity within this global multilateral framework; underlines the need for the EU to converttranslate into action its strategic support for the UN into policy and practical actions; , particularly as regards its policy and means of action in the humanitarian field (crisis and emergency response, development aid, action to combat poverty, mobilisation of emergency relief and resources to deal with natural disasters) and in the area of conflict resolution;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. While retaining the EU's observer status in the UNGA and in accordance with the UN Charter and the intergovernmental nature of the UN, urges the EU to ensure – in order to allow the new EU representatives to speak effectively and in a timely manner on global issues – the necessary arrangements for the EU's effective participation in the work of the UN General Assembly, within its role as a regional integration organisation, byand in particular by granting speaking time to the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union at UNGA sessions, while consulting fully and comprehensively with UN Member States;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines the need to review arrangements for the representation of the euro area/EU in international bodies in the area of economic, monetary and financial stability in line with its role as one of the world's foremost economic powers;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considering the euro area's global reach and its increased responsibility with respect to the stability of the global economy, insists that a single view should be presented when contributing to international economic and financial governanceimportance of the euro in terms of trade and the stability and regulation of the global economy, insists that the governing authorities of the euro area must take a firm stand in the course of contributing to the achievement of a balanced international economic and financial system and ensure global economic governance is reformed;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. While Germany, the UK and France hold single seats in the IMF at the moment and the remaining EU Member States are spread across seven constituencies, urges the EU and its Member States to address the issue of ineffective external economic and financial representation, which is limiting the influence of the EU although the EU Member States combined hold more than 30 percent of the votes within the IMF; considering that monetary policy is an exclusive EUCommunity competence for those Member States sharing a single currency, urges the EU and its relevant Member States to promptly agree on a common seat and constituency for the European Union on the IMF Executive Board, possibly starting as a euro constituency, with a view, in the longer term, in addition to those held by the Member States, regardless of whether they belong to the euro area, with a view to securing consistent EU representation, involving the Ecofin Council Presidency and the Commission, subject to the European Parliament's scrutiny;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Expresses once again its wish to see the emergence of a European defence policy, for which there is an increasingly urgent need at a time when the world faces significantly increasing instability and threats;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Noting the EU's global economic and financial weight, the need to protect the EU's strategic interests on the international scene and the fact that the summit agendas of the G-8 have broadened considerably to address a series of politico-security issues ranging from human rights through regional security to arms control, is of the view that the EU should fully participate in the G-7/G-8 process and should be fully represented in the meetings of the G-7 finance ministers; points out the need for enhanced EU coordination before G-7 and G-8 meetings, in particular by ensuring the European Parliament is closely involved;