15 Amendments of Marietje SCHAAKE related to 2010/2298(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the EU's commitment to effective multilateralism, as stated in the European Security Strategy of 2003, is the guiding principle of European external action; whereas the EU – stemming from its internal experience with cooperation among nations and institutions, rules-based order and multi-scale multilateralism – has a special global responsibility that it should continue to uphold; whereas the EU is equipped with the set of values and policy tools, including a single legal personality, needed to strengthen multilateral structures,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Treaty of Lisbon entrusts the EU with a wider range of competences in its external action, provides the EU with a 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 31 #
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 and rather ad hoc manner; whereas a highly fragmented external representation is likely to undermine the EU's 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 and thereby limiting its decisiveness and undermining its credibility,
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the EU's external representation on the multilateral scene ranges from instanceternational organizations where all Member States are full members and the EU is an observer (e.g. IMFC, Development Committee, Council of Europe), via cases where all Member States plus the EU are full members (e.g. FAO, WTO) or full participants (e.g. G- 8/G-20), to organisations in which some EU Member States act as full members and the EU has no status at all (UN Security Council, some international financial institutions(IFIs)); whereas most complex situations arise where the EU and Member States have shared competences, or combine exclusive and shared competences,
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the EU envisages the UN to be at the core of a rules-based international order that is supported strictly by cooperation between international organizations; 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,
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas international summit diplomacy should strengthen its potential to stimulate broader multilateral cooperation, stresses the need to systematically embed the outcome of these flexible structures in existing structures,
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the current dramaticfuture demographic changes, both in and outside the EU, will have consequences for multilateralism, as new realities will create pressure to adaptall for the adaptation of membership, seats and voting rights in multilateral organisations accordingly; whereas the EU should demand a commitment from the emerging economies to constructive and transparent behaviour in the evolving multilateral system in exchangeas a conditio sine qua non for rebalancing the representation, which will inevitably hit EU countries the hardestave a substantial effect on EU countries and therefore requires a stronger EU representation; 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 sceneemerging countries,
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
K a. whereas the promotion of democracy and human rights, specifically women's and children's rights and the freedom of expression, the rule of law, strengthening of security, democratic stability, prosperity, a fair distribution of income, wealth and chances in society should be at the core of all EU external action; whereas the further strengthening of the international criminal justice system, to promote accountability and put an end to impunity, and the promotion of the important work of the International Criminal Court (ICC) as the only permanent and independent judicial institution, should be an integral part of all EU external action,
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the EU's constitutional framework and mechanisms for building consensus and taking concerted action make it a role model for a rules- based global worldinternational order and therefore stresses the need to championfor the EU to actively participate in the building and improvement of an international environment that will enables the EU to promotursue its agendaobjectives fruitfully; considers essential, with regard to the EU's aspiration to be aand the need to be an effective global actor and to safeguard its position, the ability to shape its multilateral cooperation orand lead collective action in addressing international challenges;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the EUnion – by enhancing and streamlining cooperation, improving institutions and engaging all stakeholders – should take a lead in global governance reform to make international institutions and organizations more legitimate and conducive to shared responsibility, while promotursuing its own interestobjectives in theis process; insists that the EU should evaluate its contribution to global governance reform and how it can take advantage of reforms to identify, in close cooperation with the European Parliament, periodically evaluate its contribution to global governance reform and how reforms can be beneficial to the EU in identifying and establishing a stronger role for itself;
Amendment 72 #
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 multiplier helping them to achieve goals which they otherwiseof power in achieving their objectives that could not be achieve on their ownd independently and that speaking with one EU voice not only increases the chances of them achieving an outcome that reflects their intersuccests but boostalso improves the legitimacy and credibility of the EU as an important international actor in the emerging interpolar world;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need to apply a strategic approach and a coherent rationale in external representation by developing an tailored EU strategy onregarding each multilateral organisation aimed at enhancing the EUnion's role and strengthening of its position; asks the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative and the Commission to draw up a White Paper on the role of the EU in multilateral organisations, proposing a comprehensive and strategic approach both for the short run and the medium-term future through to 2020;
Amendment 80 #
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; 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; therefore emphasizes the need for more consistency regarding the different types of the EU's status in multilateral organizations and treaty schemes as a matter of institutional logic, and calls upon the Council to draft a clear framework;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the need for a comprehensive reform of the UN Security Council by building, on the basis of a first-ever negotiation text and widespread support for UNSC reform, a more cohesive position among EU Member States on the issues of legitimacy, composition, effectiveness and regional representation; reiterates the view that an EU seat in an enlarged UNSC remains a goal of the European UnionU; invites EU Member States on the UN Security Council to keep other EU Member States adequately informed of their positions and activities and share information about developments in the UNSC with other EU Member States; welcomes the newly established practice whereby a representative of the EU is generally invited to attend most scheduled UNSC deliberations and participate with some limited right to speak at the UNSC;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. In order to enhance EU-CoE multilateral cooperation in the fields important for the EU as well, i.e. in education, human rights, the rule of law, democracye.g. the rule of law, democracy, education, protection of human rights, freedom of expression and freedom of the press, including on the internet, and good governance, as well as considering that the EU is the largest contributor to joint operating programmes with the CoE, underlines the need to reform the EU's presence and observer status in the CoE; emphasises the right to attend, with voting rights on behalf of the EU, meetings of the CoE Committee of Ministers when it performs, inter alia, its task of monitoring the execution of judgments given by the European Court of Human Rights as well as the right to be represented on the Steering Committee for Human Rights;