Activities of Alessandra MORETTI related to 2022/2051(INL)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties
Amendments (10)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas, as stated in the Conclusion of the Conference on the Future of Europe, a stronger EU in security and defence will contribute to European and global peace and it will support European values, such as the rule of law, democracy, human rights and gender equality and this can be achieved by promoting a common strategic culture;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas the use of a veto by one EU Member State to open accession negotiations with a candidate country, due to unresolved bilateral and regional disputes linked to historical events, self- identification and cultural or linguistic rights, can block candidate countries’ accession process and the use of veto by Member States for their own benefit is contrary to the spirit of the EU Treaties;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas the reckless Russian aggression and the invasion of Ukraine represents the start of a new era for the European Union and for the world order and underlines the need of a full reassessment of security and defence policies through a paradigm shift;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
C c. whereas there is an increasing challenge posed by cyber, hybrid and other asymmetric threats, including disinformation campaigns, and by the malicious use of ever-more sophisticated emerging and disruptive technologies; whereas foreign interference, information manipulation and disinformation are an abuse of the fundamental freedoms of expression and information and threaten these freedoms, values, democratic procedures, political processes, the security of states and citizens, and the capacity to cope with exceptional situations; whereas Russia has been engaging in disinformation of an unparalleled malice and magnitude across both traditional media outlets and social media platforms, in order to deceive its citizens at home and the international community on the eve of and during its war of aggression against Ukraine, which Russia started on 24 February 2022, proving that even information can be weaponised;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the main citizens’ recommendations in the field of foreign and security policy, notably the need to switch to more efficient decision-making, through the use of qualified majority voting (QMV) instead of unanimity, in order to become a more credible and efficient global player, and the need to improve the Union’s methods to impose sanctions, to be incorporated in a Treaty change;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that Article 48(7) and Article 31(3) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) contain passerrelle clauses that can make switching from unanimity to qualified majority voting possible in the area of common foreign and security policy (CFSP) without military implications; calls for a switch to QMV in all decisions in the field of CFSP, notably those concerning sanctions and human rights, in order to improve the Union’s capacity to take speedy and effective decisions, as the passerelle clauses have never been used due to the lack of political will;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls the Council to act by a qualified majority where a decision provides for the interruption or reduction, in part or completely, of economic and financial relations with one or more third countries; calls for an amendment of Article 29 TEU in this regard;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Stresses the need to enhance the EU’s capacity to act by reforming decision-making, including through the introduction of qualified majority voting in areas relevant to the accession process and an effective functioning of the enlarged union as a whole; stresses the need to abolish, in particular, the requirement for unanimity when deciding on the start of the negotiation process as well as the opening and closing of individual negotiating clusters and chapters; calls on the Member States to muster the political will to re-energise the enlargement process and deliver on their promises through concrete positive steps in the accession processes of countries that seek to join the Union and deserve to be part of the European family;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on the Member States to provide new competences and legal basis to countering disinformation and foreign malign propaganda; calls for the EU to lead the debate on the legal implications of foreign interference, to promote common international definitions and attribution rules and to develop an international framework for responses to interference; highlights the need for global, multilateral cooperation between like-minded countries to exchange best practices and identify common responses to global, but also shared domestic, challenges, including collective sanctions, the protection of human rights and democratic standards;
Amendment 123 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10