15 Amendments of Tonino PICULA related to 2016/2052(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
Citation 13 a (new)
- having regard to the document entitled 'Shared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe – A Global Strategy for the European Union's Foreign and Security Policy' presented by VP/HR Federica Mogherini on 27 June 2016,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the security and defence building capacity enshrined in the Treaties has yet to be accomplished; whereas it is the responsibility of the Member States to build a European Security and Defence Union;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas that same article provides for the creation of defence institutions as well as for a European capabilities and armaments policy to be defined; whereas it also requires that the EU’s efforts will be NATO-compatible; whereas a European Defence Union, complementary and mutually reinforcing; whereas a European Defence Union should reinforce Europe's capacity to promote security within and beyond its borders as well as strengthen the partnership with NATO and transatlantic relations, and therefore will enable a stronger North Atlantic Treaty Organization, consequently promoting further a more effective national (territorial), regional and global security and defence;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Is of the opinion that a truly strong EDU has to offer guarantees and capabilities to Member States beyond their individual ones;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Believes that the way to a EDU needs to start from a thoroughly revised CSDP, based on a strong collective defence principle, efficient financing and coordination with NATO; considers that, as a necessary step towards a EDU, with the increasing integration of internal and external security, CSDP needs to move beyond external crisis management, truly ensure the common security and defence of the entire area of freedom, security and justice and allow the Union's engagement at all the stages of crises and conflicts, by using the full spectrum of instruments at its disposal, up to art. 42.7 TEU;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the President of the Commission to establish a standing ‘defence matters’ working group of Members of the Commission chaired by the VP/HR; supports further involvement of the Commission in defence, through extensive and well-focused research, planning and implementation;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Is of the opinion the EDU needs to be based on a periodic joint security threat assessment of the Member States, but be flexible enough to satisfy the Member States' individual security challenges and needs;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that the Member States which are willing to make more binding commitments to one another should establish permanent structured cooperation within the Union framework; encourages those Member States to establish multinational forces within the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) and make these forces available to the common security and defence policy; believes that the Council should normally entrust the implementation of a peace-keeping, conflict prevention and strengthening international security task to those multinational forces; is convinced that the EU battle group system should be further developed to that end, politically, in modularity and effective funding; underlines that PESCO is open to all Member States;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Encourages the Member States participating in the EDA toBelieves a strong, increasing role for the EDA is indispensable to an efficient EDU in coordinating capability- driven programs and projects and establishing a common European capabilities and armaments policy; encourages the Commission to work in liaison with the EDA to that end, and to strengthen the industrial and technological base of the defence sector;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the ongoing work on setting-up a preparatory action for a future EU defence research programme starting in 2021 as requested by the European Council (EUCO) 2013 and 2015; calls for the establishment of the start-up fund for preparatory activities in the lead-up to military operations, as provided for in the Lisbon Treaty; supports the Commission's defence-related initiatives such as the Defence Action Plan, the Defence Industrial Policy and the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base; calls on the Member States to outline future cooperative programmes in which EU funded defence research can build a starting point;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the importance of putting in place the necessary measures to allow a working, accessible, transparent and simple European market in defence equipment in order to enable Member States to reach better defence and security budget maximisation; is concerned that the progress towards improved competitiveness, greater transparency, and less red tape in the defence sector has been slow so far, and that a sound European defence industrial policy is still missing; is of an opinion an integrated European defence arms market needs to provide incentives and rewards to all Member States and supply all buyers with the adequate, affordable means responding to their individual security needs;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the joint declaration by the presidents of the European Council and the Commission, and the Secretary-General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of 8 July 2016; emphasises the need for stronger cooperation between the EU and NATO in the area of security and defence; is convinced that EU-NATO cooperation should involve building resilience together in the east and the south as well as defence investment; considers that cooperation on capabilities offers the prospect of improving compatibility and synergy between both frameworks; considers that the Member States should develop capabilities that can be deployable under CSDP in order to make possible autonomous action in such cases where NATO is not willing to act or where an EU action is more appropriate; is convinced that this would also strengthen NATO’s role in security and defence policy, and in collective defence;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for the establishment of practical arrangements and guidelines for future activation of the Article 42(7) TEU; calls on the Member States to make the necessary arrangements for the implementation of the Article 42(7) TEU, in order to allow the Member States and the EU institutions to effectively manage other Member States’ aid and assistance contributions, or to have them effectively managed within the Union framework; calls on the Member States to aim for the 2 % GDP target to be spent on defence, and to spend 20 % of their defence budgets on major equipment, including related research and development;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Is of an opinion that the challenges of financial constraints for national budget come with the corresponding opportunities for progress, arising from the evident need for closer cooperation between member states in defence matters; welcomes the decision of some Member States to stop or reverse the trend cutting defence spending; calls on the Member States to respect the 2 % GDP target to be spent on defence, and to spend 20 % of their defence budgets on major equipment, including related research and development;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Invites the VP/HR to propose an initial EU security and defence white book which will be based on the EU global strategy endorsed by the European Council and that the Council will assign the task of drafting this document without delay; takes the view that the security and defence white book should guide the Union contributions in security and defence policy for each multiannual political and financial framework of the EU;