Activities of Arnaud DANJEAN related to 2020/2113(INI)
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REPORT on promoting regional stability and security in the broader Middle East region
Amendments (35)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
Citation 2
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
— having regard to the resolution on the implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2021;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
— having regard to the joint communication by the VP/HR to the European Parliament and the Council on a strategic partnership with the Gulf;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the countries in the broader Middle East region referred to in this report, which encompasses the area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, are very diverse; whereas this region is strategic for the European Union given its geographical position and common ties and requires a long-term approach and coordinated policy; whereas the stability and security of Europe and the broader Middle East region are interdependent, and whereas the security situation in the region is, currently characterised by ongoing conflicts with a strong regional dimension, is fragile and very concerning;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the Middle East region is plagued by outbreaks of instability, resulting from both structural geopolitical tensions and persistent internal factors such as socioeconomic development challenges, weak governance and religious radicalism;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas, in this troubled context, and in view of historical and neighbourly relations, the EU has a key role to play in helping the region to achieve stability;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas the EU’s aim is to promote peace, security and the protection of human rights in strict compliance with international law;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas the EU, as a global player with no intention of promoting a unilateral agenda to the detriment of any country in the region, must be able to assert itself as a constructive partner, drawing on its mediation capabilities to help the MENA countries achieve stability and prosper;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas there are many heated state, ethnic and religious rivalries in the Persian Gulf that will likely not only perpetuate current crises, such as the one in Yemen, but also spread instability across the entire region;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the influence and role of different EU Member States in the region is very unequal, with strategies and agreements in the field of stability and security sometimes differing or promoting conflicting priori because of their specific historic, cultural and socioeconomic ties;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas these differences can sometimes give rise to contradictory or conflicting views in the region’s countries and rival strategies that are deeply detrimental to the EU achieving a more coherent and effective approach;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the US continues to play a relevant role in the region, including, despite giving low priority to the region, the US continues to be an important actor, particularly in the field of security through a directits military presence; whereas Israel, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and Egypt all have major non- NATO ally statuich is on the decline but plays a decisive role in many countries;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the Abraham Accords signed on 15 September 2020 enshrine the normalisation of diplomatic relations between Israel and two Arab states: Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE);
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the summit of 27 to 28 March 2022 between Israel, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Morocco aiming to create a security alliance, which was also attended by the US Secretary of State, paved the way for a new regional approach to security;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas Russia and Ukraine are important global grain and fertiliser producers and exporters; whereas a number of Member States are heavily reliant on wheat imports from those two countries;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas LGBTI people continue to be victims of repression and violence throughout the region; whereas same-sex relations are punished by imprisonment in many countries in the region and by the death penalty in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Yeme and the death penalty is still exists in many countries in the region;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas religious minorities, particularly Christians, continue to be persecuted in many Middle East countries;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that the current situation in the broader Middle East region is characterised by ongoing conflicts with a regional dimension; stresses that the presence of fand crises of many oreign forces in these conflicts is contributing to maintaining them and to further regional instability; notes that as well as ongoingins (territorial disputes, ethnic and religious rivalries, state failures, political and religious extremism, etc.) which make it particularly confmplicts, there are latent ones which the EU must take into consideration when defining its long-term strategy to tackle the underlying causes of instability in the regated to develop a comprehensive EU strategy, as any contribution must be multidimensional, adapted to the specificities of each situation while maintaining a coherent regional dimension;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Welcomes the EU’s efforts to promote democracy, the rule of law, human rights, economic development and fundamental freedoms in the Middle East region and calls on the EU to further encourage each country to carry out political and economic reforms;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Stresses that the EU promotes a peace and stability agenda and is ready to cooperate closely and share conflict prevention, mediation and counter- terrorism methods, experiences and best practices, both at a bilateral and regional level;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that the EU has its own interests in the region, as EU security is interdependent with security in the Middle East; highlights that EU funding instruments directed at the regionConsiders the Middle East to be an area of major interest that affects the security of the EU and its citizens; highlights that EU funding instruments directed at the region, the European Peace Facility, humanitarian aid operations and the NDICI instrument make an important contribution to stability and prosperity;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that global and regional actors, who do not at all make their aid conditional on the principles of good governance promoted by the EU, are increasingly stepping up their efforts, especially in the area of military affairs with African countries, and are undermining the multilateral mechanisms that are essential for peacekeeping;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that the Abraham Accords, and the process they have set in motion in terms of security and trade, are a powerful factor in the reorganisation of inter-state relations in the region and must be taken into account in any European strategy aimed at helping the region to achieve stability;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the important role the EU could play in facilitating dialogue between regional stakeholders, which is key to fostering stability; calls, therefore, for cooperation with the regional supranational organisations to be enhanced; emphasises the importance of cooperating closely with partners in the region at a bilateral, regional and international level to help form a collective response towards achieving stabilisation and development;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the countries in the region to refrain from exporting arms or combatants or intervening militarily in other countDeplores the fact that neighbouring countries interfere too often in each others’ internal crises, asnd that such interventions are some of the main causes of regional destabilisation; firmly opposes the use of drones in extrajudicial and extraterritorial killings of terror suspects and demands a ban on the use of drones for this purposeference – whether political or even military in nature – is harmful, causing long-term damage to inter-state relations in the region and preventing conflicts from being resolved;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that there remains a Jihadist threat in several countries in the region, in the form of terrorism or insurgency, posed in particular by the Islamic State; calls on the EU and its Member States make a firm commitment to legitimate governments fighting against jihadist networks;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Applauds the efforts being made by the Commission and EEAS to set up a network of experts in the field of counter- terrorism among the EU delegations in several countries in the region and to provide tailored support as requested by several governments; calls for more systematic cooperation in preventing and combating radicalisation and terrorism through targeted, tailor-made and regularly assessed civilian programmes;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Applauds the efforts being made by the Commission, and the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments in particular, to set up programmes to develop a partnership with several countries in the region to combat radicalisation and terrorism; considers that such tailor-made programmes, supported by material and financial resources suited to the specific needs of the recipient countries, can be an effective instrument of security cooperation; calls, however, for an in- depth assessment to be made of the effectiveness of these projects and for it to be ensured that service providers, often from Member State agencies, provide training that is appropriate and adapted to the needs indicated by the host countries and based on genuine professional expertise;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Expresses deep concern about a potential nuclear race in the region and calls on the EU to acnuclear proliferation in the region and supports the efforts being made by the EU and Member States to promote multivlate alral diplomatic efforts to avoid it; callinitiatives oin Israel to ratify the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weaporder to put an end to this phenomenons;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. UNotes the strategic dimension of energy cooperation in the Middle East region; underlines the need to diversify the EU’s sources of energy and calls for an assessment of the security implications of any agreement to import oil, gas or hydrogen into the EU;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses that the conflict in Ukraine could build up inflationary pressures already triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic and thus aggravate the food and humanitarian crisis in the most dependent countries of the Middle East;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Highlights that people-to-people contacts and cooperation in fields such as business, education, science or culture play an important role in the region and can make a key contribution to regional stability and the bridging of divides both with the EU and among the different states;
Amendment 248 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Expresses deep concern regarding the human rights impact of the EU’s military cooperation policy, in particular sales of arms and cooperation in the field of security, which has enabled Notes that the EU and its Member States are currently involved in various military operations and cooperation in the region: Operation Atalanta against piracy, Operation EUNAVFOR MED IRINI against migrant smuggling, Operation Inherent Resolve againsta tes to take part in regional conflicts or engage in repressive activities against their own populations;rrorism, Operation Sea Guardian against terrorism in the Mediterranean, etc.; believes that with these commitments, which respond to caolls for clear transparency criteria concernective threats recognised by international law, the EU is making a significant contribution to security ing these forms of cooperation ensuring that no EU resources are being used to fu region; notes, however, that certain Member States’ individual involvement in local crises or conflicts is not part of efforts more closely coordinated at European level, further regional instabilityor the cases of Syria or Libya for example;