14 Amendments of Arnaud DANJEAN related to 2015/2272(INI)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the EU must recognise the full extent of the deterioration in its immediate strategic environment, and its long-term consequences; whereas the fact that multiple crises are occurring simultaneously and having increasingly direct consequences within the EU means that no Member State can respond alone and that Europeans should exercise their responsibilities collectively to ensure their security;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas, in such a volatile and uncertain international environment, the EU must have the strategic independence to allow it to ensure its security and promote its interests and values;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the EU in consequence to enhance coherent and structured cooperation on defence research, the industrial base and cyber defence through pooling and sharing, in order to use national defence budgets more efficiently. TIn this regard, the European Defence Agency’s role needs to be strengthened and its resourcescomprehensively increased to enable it to act more effectively. Member States should take more responsibility for building European capabilities and increase their military research expenditure through the EDA. Furthermore, a true European intelligence and forecasting capacity needs to be developed;. Furthermore, exchange of intelligence at European level needs to be increased, insofar as national resources allow.
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Supports the principle that the EU Member States should commit to using 2% of their GDP for defence expenditure by 2024 in order to attain a higher degree of defence capability;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that a principal objective should be to move towards voluntary joint defence forces and the framing of a common defence policy which will ultimately lead to a common defence. Supports, therefore, the drafting of a White paper on EU Defence, thereby updating the Helsinki Headline Goal from 1999;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes the vital importance of strengthening EU-NATO cooperation, and supports the establishment of European forces which complement NATO in territorialEU being able to play a central role, with the instruments currently at its disposal (CSDP), in European defence and are able to conduct intervention operations autonomously beyond the EU’s borders;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that in order to gain more credibility as a global security and foreign policy actor, the EU should as a priority take greater responsibility and focus on filling the security vacuum in crises affecting its near neighbourhood and among our neighbours’ neighbours;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Emphasises that the CSDP is a key component of the range of instruments the Member States can use to prevent crises and help resolve them; there are currently 17 CSDP operations and missions in progress;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is of the opinion that in order to build stability and peace, the EU should keep up its enlargement commitments and continue cooperation with very closely associated countries within the context of the newly revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP); recalls that according to Article 49 TEU any European state may apply to become a member of the European Union, provided it adheres to the Copenhagen criteria and the principles of democracy and respect for fundamental freedoms and human and minority rights, and ensures the rule of law;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights the need for a political will in the Member States to make more use of constructive abstentions in the Council on CFSP/show greater flexibility on CSDP issues in order to create genuine momentum in this area (variable geometry), and; supports the establishment of the Council of Defence Ministers format, as well as regular European Council meetings on defence; believes that willing Member States should also make use of the possibility of moving towards Permanent Structured Cooperation in Defence (PESCO)the use of Permanent Structured Cooperation in Defence (PESCO) and of Article 44 of the Treaty on European Union represent the institutional methods best suited to moving this common policy forward in a realistic manner;
Amendment 314 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 352 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 380 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Emphasises that the European Parliament is the Parliament of the EU andshould play a key role in the regular, detailed monitoring of the external action of thate EU action should be monitored and followed upinstitutions. The national parliaments could be more closely involved in this cmontextitoring exercise;
Amendment 386 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21