8 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2017/2130(INI)
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the EU’s eastern partners remains under threat from unresolved regional conflicts, including some that are sustained by the Russian Federation in contradiction with its international commitments to uphold the international legal orderre remain certain unresolved regional conflicts within the Eastern Partnership;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point f
(f) to ask the Commission together with the European Investment Bank to propose arrangements for the implementation of a new European Investment Plan for Ukraine and other Eastern Partnershipthose countries that have made the most progress on reforms towards gradual economic and political integration with the European Union, by increasing the lending capacity of the European Investment Bank from the current EaP levels of EUR 1.6 billion per year and by taking into account EEIP provisions in carrying out its investment mandate; to request as a first step in this regard the establishment of a separate investment window in the form of a trust fund for Ukraine based on the best practices of multi-donor instruments, stressing that this trust fund should focus on private and public investments, in particular on social and economic infrastructure and those aimed at boosting investment absorption capacity, and on the coordination of IFIs and international donor support on the ground;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point i
(i) to commit to working jointly on increased mobility between the EU and partner countries; to support Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine in implementing the visa liberalisation agreement and to ensure that suspension mechanisms are not triggered in the future, notably though close cooperation in the areas of police and customs to safeguard against security threats, criminality and overstays; to open visa dialogues with Armenia, to encourage progress by Azerbaijan in the implementation of Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements (VFA/RA) with a view to opening a visa dialogue in the future, and to finalise negotiations on VFA/RA with Belarus for the benefit of its citizens, should these, notably though close cooperation in the areas of police and customs to safeguard against security threats, criminality and overstays; to check that partner countries make significant progress in the arearespect of fundamental values and meet the precise conditions definedset out in visa liberalisation roadmaps before any visa negotiations are opened or, if already open, then concluded;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point n
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point n
(n) to improve both energy independence and efficiency through specific investments, strengthened cooperation in all priority areas covered by the EU Energy Union, and in the renewable energies sector, and by closer integration of the partners’ energy markets with the European energy market with a particular focus on interconnectivity and infrastructure, whilst scrutinising closely the consequencesthoroughly assessing the advisability of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline;
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point q
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point q
(q) to commit to sustaining the unity of action among EU Member States in maintaining collective pressure on Russia, in particular through strengthened targeted restrictive measures, to solving the conflict in Ukraine through genuine implementation of the Minsk agreements, to re-establishing Ukraine’s full sovereignty in Crimea, and that of Georgia in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and of Moldova in Transnistria, and to putting an end to the additional threats of state-sponsored assassinations, cyber warfare, disinformation and other types of destabilisationreaching diplomatic solutions that enable a gradual restoration of dialogue and relations with Russia, without putting Eastern Partnership countries in the impossible position of having to choose 'between them and us', but rather by using their historical links with Moscow to facilitate a rapprochement between the EU and Russia;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point s
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point s
(s) to call for continued support to the work carried out by the EU and OSCE missions in Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine as essential operations to ensure peace and security first and foremost for the benefit of the citizens on the ground; to reflect, jointly with the partner countries, on the prospect of an enhanced diplomatic role for the EU in solving these conflicts, including by launching ambitious fully-fledged Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) missions tasked with enhancing security and stability;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point w
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point w
(w) to reiterate the principle of differentiation and that the scope and depth of cooperation with the European Union is determined by the EU’s ambitions and those of the partners, as well as by the pace and quality of reforms, respect for human rights and the rule of law;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point z
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point z
(z) to ensure that strict conditionality is always attached to current and further levels of cooperation and support for the partners, and that it is also observed; to underline that EU financial support to its partners will be conditional on the concrete reform steps and thats they implement, respect for human rights and the rule of law, and the EU’s incentive- based approach will continue to benefit those partners most engaged in ambitious reformsthis field; to emphasise in particular that no comprehensive agreement will be ratified with a country that grossly violates EU values, notably through the non- implementation of ECHR decisions; to also highlight that clear benchmarks need to be met before any new dialogue on visa-free regimes is launched and concluded; to reiterate that backsliding on prior achievements will systematically lead to the suspension of agreements, including in the area of visa- free regimes and EU funding;