24 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2019/2136(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to the UN Security Council Resolution 1325 which established the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda in 2000,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Parliament has a duty and responsibility to exercise its democratic oversight of the common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and common security and defence policy (CSDP) and should have theget the necessary means to fulfil this role;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the need for a stronger and united Europe when it comes to external relations is more urgent than beforeno single Member State alone is able to tackle any of the challenges we face today; whereas, however, no state can be forced into foreign policy positions or actions against its will based on democratic consensus of its people and parliamentarian decisions; whereas the equality between the Member States in designing EU foreign and security policy and actions should be respected and guaranteed; whereas the prerogatives of the national parliaments in the area of the foreign and security policy of their countries should be respected;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the EU’s security environment is vulnerable to external pressure in many areas, such as economy, energy, trade, banking system, defence, that prevents the EU from exercising its vulnerable to external pressure that prevents the EU from exercising its sovereignty; sovereignty; whereas in particular US policies, such as sanctions against Iran, are underling the creditability of foreign affairs policies of the EU and its Member States; whereas there is an urgent need to create the conditions for a strategic autonomy of the EU and its Member States; whereas there is an urgent need to make the EU more independent of US financial system thus protecting its business from extra- territorial US sanctions;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the effects of climate change are having increasingly severe impacts on different aspects of human life as well as on development opportunities, the worldwide geopolitical order and global stability; whereas those with fewer resources to adapt to climate change will be hardest hit by the impact of climate change; whereas EU foreign policy should focus more on promoting multilateral activities by cooperating on specific climate-related issues, building strategic partnerships and strengthening cooperation and inter-actions between state and non-state actors, including major contributors to global pollution;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
Gb. whereas more than half of the world’s population growth by 2050 is expected to occur in Africa, which is expected to account for 1.3 billion of the additional 2.4 billion people on the planet; whereas the concentration of this growth in some of the poorest countries together with the effects of climate change will lead to a series of new challenges which, if not addressed immediately, will have extremely problematic effects both for the countries in question and for the European Union; whereas the recent UNCTAD report on Trade and development 2019 figures additional 2.5 trillion US-Dollars a year for ensuring to reach the commitment of the UN 2030 SDG Agenda;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G c (new)
Recital G c (new)
Gc. whereas in view of the collapse of important arms control and disarmament agreements but also in view of "emerging technologies" such as cyber technology and autonomous weapons disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation should become a major focus of EU's foreign and security policy; whereas the Common Position 2008/944/CFSP has to be reviewed and updated in that way that the criteria have to be strictly applied and implemented and sanction mechanism has to established;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that at a moment when competing powers are increasingly challenging the rules-based global order, we, as Europeans Union, must defendinsist on and strive for guaranteeing multilateralism, international law, democracy and human rights; asserts that multilateralism necessarily has an economic dimension ant that, therefore, the EU must contribute to a substantive change in the international economic order based on inclusiveness, sustainable development and new economic benchmarks like well-being economies resp. societies with democratic institutions;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that multilateralism ismust be at the centre of the EU’s efforts to prevent and solve conflicts; recognises that multilateralism, to be effective, must address and resolve the issue of power inequalities between state and non-state actors;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for a stronger, united, effective and more strategic European Union, especially given that a new European political cycle has just started and that the EU’s foreign and security policy is subject to change; deplores that this change is focused on military aspects; insists that the necessary changes in EU's foreign and security policy must be oriented on crisis prevention, cooperative regional security cooperation, global climate and environmental action, strengthen both political and social human rights, ensuring the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development goals 2030 Agenda;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Reiterates the urgent need to strengthen the EU’s resilience and independence by reinforcing a CFSP which promotes peace,is committed to peace, regional and international security, human rights , social justice and fundamental freedoms in Europe and throughout the world;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to act with high ambition at international climate conference, implement their obligations and to use their climate diplomacy to spur other global actors to pursue adequate decarbonisation strategies; calls on the EU and its Member States to secure equitable and sufficient flows of climate finance under the Paris Agreement and to ensure grants being the financial instrument favoured over loans; demands that the EU contributes to efforts to provide the most vulnerable countries with the necessary resources to adapt to global warming and rising sea levels; insists that development and trade policies and agreements and the relevant agreements with third countries include, and are streamlined with, climate and environmental goals, and ensure a readily available and responsible, transparent funding mechanism; calls on the EU to work for an International Convention on Fossil Fuels to keep them in the ground;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines that the European Union can only deliver its full potential when speaking with one voice and when decision-making is shifted step by step from the national to the supranational level, taking full advantage of the possibilities offered by the EU institutions and their procedures; stresses that the European Union should use all available means to achieve this goal, including those offered by parliamentary diplomacy; reminds that no Member States, candidate or partner country can be forced into foreign policy positions or actions against its will and democratic consensus of its people and parliamentarian decisions; insists that the equality between the Member States in designing EU foreign and security policy and actions has to be respected and guaranteed; underlines that the prerogatives of the national parliaments in the area of the foreign and security policy of their countries have to be respected;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Notes that if/when Brexit takes place, Parliament’s Committees on Foreign Affairs and International Trade, as the leading committee responsible for Foreign Affairs and International Trade relations with third countries, should be given all the necessary information by the EU executive to enable it to scrutinise, on behalf of Parliament, the negotiation process in line with Article 218 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFUE) and to provide timely input on the future agreement(s) with the United Kingdom, which will require Parliament’s consent; stresses the importance of future cooperation between the European Union and the United Kingdom in the area of the CFSP and the CSDP and recognises the need to find creaonstructive solutions;
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for greater coherence, consistency and complementarity between the EU’s externalExpresses deep concern at the fact that the proposed financingal instruments and the CFSP to enable the European Union to tackle growing security and foreign policy challenges; considers that the simplified structure of external instruments proposed under the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument calls for proper checks and balances, a sufficient level of transparency, and strategic policy input and scrutiny of implementation by Parliament; stresses the need for efficient and adequate funding under the Instrument for Pre- accession Assistance for 2021-2027 (IPA III); highlights the role of the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP), particularly in supporting peace and stability afor 2021-2027 do not meet the demands of the European Parliament for robust democratic and transparent scrutiny by national parliaments and the European Parliament expressed in its report on the implementation of the EU external financial instruments: mid-term review 2017 and the future post-2020 architecture (A8-0112/2018); insists on enhanced parliamentary control and scrutiny procedures for all external financials instruments; calls on improved transparency in the implementation of the financial instruments throundgh the world; expects a timely adoption of the post-2020 instruments, so as to avoid unnecessary funding gapcreation of a single common transparent public database of projects and actions;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Stresses that both the EU and Russia have the responsibility to contribute to building a European peace order that will guarantee the security of all, including the states in the common neighbourhood, strengthening democracy, rule of law, guaranteeing all human rights, facilitate civil society contacts and promote trade and economic cooperation; calls in view of the tensions, arms race and a faster and faster moving spiral of political and military confrontation for a fundamental reorientation of EU's policy on Russia; takes the view that this process should start with an honest assessment of the results of the current policy and complement its critical assessment of Russia’s internal development and external policy by a self-critical analysis of its own policy; calls on the EU and Russia to stop the propaganda war, to address their differences without preconditions and to start a structured result-oriented dialogue;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Believes that there is the urgent need to advance nuclear disarmament both regionally and globally; expresses serious concern about the risk of a resumption of the nuclear arms race in Europe; strongly rejects any plan for the deployment of new nuclear weapons in Europe, and calls for the immediate withdrawal of US nuclear weapons from Germany, Italy, Belgium and the Netherlands; calls on all EU Member States to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons adopted by 122 states at the UN on 7 July 2017;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Urgently calls on the Member States to strictly implement their obligations stemming from the Common Position 2008/944/CFSP on arms export control, in particular criteria 4 on regional stability regarding their arms export policy to Turkey; reiterates its position that the Common Position 2008/944/CFSP has to be reviewed and updated in that way that the criteria have to be strictly applied and implemented and sanction mechanism has to established and calls on the VP/HR-designate Borrell to treat this dossier with priority;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21c. Reminds that Article41 (2) of the TEU prohibits operating expenditure arising from operations having military or defence implications to be charged to the Union budget;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 d (new)
Paragraph 21 d (new)
21d. Stresses that the Common Foreign and Security Policy of the EU should focus on tackling the root causes of international instability and destabilizing conflicts, such as poverty, inequality, the lack of economic opportunities and access to education, social exclusion, armed conflicts, undemocratic and inefficient governance, corruption, climate change, and the spread of extremist and hate ideologies;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Deplores that commitments and declarations about promoting the women, peace and security (WPS) agenda and equal representation of women in foreign and security policy often remain rather being rhetoric than aiming and ensuring its actual implementation, leading to limited progress on the agenda's goals worldwide; reminds that women's participation in peace and security processes can play a significant role in determining the success and sustainability of peace agreements, as well as the durability and quality of peace; calls on the EU and its Member States to exercise leadership in the implementation of the WPS agenda and to work for overcoming: - the continued resistance of mediators and negotiators to include women in peace talks, - the resistance of post- conflict planners to analyse women’s needs and allocate sufficient resources to address them, - the resistance of political parties to front women candidates, - the resistance of security services to prevent violence against women, - the resistance of rule of law actors to apply agreed international law to the investigation and prosecution of crimes against women;