32 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2021/2183(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes the Union’s committed relationship with NATO, which remains fundamental to EU security policy; welcomes, in this regard, the ongoing preparation of the new EU-NATO Joint Declaration, which will be presented before the end of the year; calls for a very tangible development in the EU-NATO partnership starting from enhanced consultation at the political level;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for increased efforts to fight foreign interference in the Union’s security and defence, which often takes the form of cyber threats or other types of hybrid warfare; supports, in this regard, the development of the European cyber defence policy, as announced by the President of the Commission in the State of the Union address; to better address cyber threats the EU must increase its resilience, strategic autonomy, and digital and technological sovereignty;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates that Parliament should play a prominent role in scrutinising and supervising the implementation and evaluation of the CSDP, including monitoring the implementation of the Permanent Structured Cooperation.; the Parliament should be consulted on CSDP missions and that its recommendations and remarks should be duly taken into consideration;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Calls on citizens to express their expectations as regards the CSDP architecture in the course of the Conference on the Future of Europe and on EU institutions to translate these expectations in concrete proposals and actions.
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the EU is facing new threats, including hybrid threats, increased militarisation around the world and a stilln increasingly unstable neighbourhood, both in the East and in the South;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that 2020 was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which exposed our dependencies vis-à-vis the rest of the world; stresses that the EU must learn lessons from this with a view, in particular, to increasing its resilience and strategic a, strategic autonomy, and digital and technological sovereignty also through a revised approach to global production and distributionomy chains in essential goods, energy, and materials;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the launch of the work on the Strategic Compass, an unprecedented strategic reflection adopting a bottom-up approach, which should be completed in March 2022; stresses that it is a beginning, not an end, and that it constitutes a major step towards a European Defence Union, as well as the basis for a more coherent and supranational approach to foreign policy;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the importance of supporting it with a 360-degree threat analysis; stresses that the Strategic Compass must be the EU’s ambitious response to this analysis, whichand that the prerogatives of all Member States are taken into account duly, synthetized, and properly clustered; Underlines that the Strategic Compass should serve also as a basis for revising other interlinked EU initiatives such as the Capability Development Plan (CDP); reaffirms that the findings of the Strategic Compass, must be subject to regular review;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the Strategic Compass must make it possible to strengthen the Union’s capacity to act as an increasingly credible strategic partner; stresses that this exercise must be regularly updated, must set out an ambitious and operational course – with a timetable for the implementation of decisions and monitoring mechanisms – and must enable the Union to have a coherent defence policy, a common strategic culture, a capacity to anticipate threats and provide a rapid and coordinated reaction and a capacity for autonomous resilience, to be able to mobilise resources on the basis of solidarity when a Member State is threatened and requests them, and ultimately to play a part in the protection of European citizens at home and European interests abroad;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the renewal of the Althea mission in 2020 and the refocusing of its mandate in support of the Bosnia- Herzegovina authorities in an effort to maintain a safe and secure environment as well as the third Strategic Review of the Operation presented in June 2021;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the launch of the CSDP operation in the Mediterranean, EUNAVFOR MED IRINI and its renewal until 31 March 2023 but believes its mandate should be extended to search and rescue efforts; stresses its key role in the implementation of the arms embargo; deplores the fact that, in 2020, it encountered many refusals to allow inspections; calls for a transparent communication from the European External Action Service (EEAS) on this issue; laments the fact that NATO, which is active in the area through Operation Sea Guardian, is unwilling to cooperate;
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses the importance of providing military missions with more flexible and more robust mandates which are tailored to the situation on the ground; calls for closer linkages between existing European ad hoc operations and CSDP military missions or operations;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Is concerned about the increasing information manipulation, disinformation and hybrid threats affecting several theatres; calls for a structured response to these threats by CSDP missions and Common Security and Defence Policy mission and operations directly; calls for a structured response to these threats by CSDP missions and operations; and for a more structured response to these threats by CSDP missions on a policy and operational level;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Welcomes the cooperation capacity of European armies in helping citizens in the fight against the pandemic in 2020, as well as the synergies created with NATO Allies and NATO infrastructures and assets for what concerns airlifts and transportation of essential equipment; calls on the EU and the Member States to set out detailed arrangements for the implementation of Article 44 TEU so as to enable the Union to respond rapidly and effectively to crises; welcomes the positive pooling and coordinating role played by air forces during the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular as regards transfers for medical treatment and deliveries of equipment between Member States;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Supports the ambition of creating a ‘rapid entry force’ as proposed by the HR/VP, with a view of establishing a credible and rapidly deployable contingent which should also be empowered with assets and procedures guaranteeing its swift transportation; recalls the existence of bthe European Union Battlegroups (EUBGs) and the need to make them credible by conducting regular field exercises; deplores the Member States’ lack of commitment to the battlegroups both in political and practical terms; criticises the fact that only one, led by Italy, is operational in 2021; laments the weakness of the planning for 2022 and 2023; which is not foreseen to bring any substantial improvement to the current situation;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the establishment of the European Peace Facility (EPF) in 2020 and calls for it to be made operational swiftly; stresses that the requisite equipment and training must be delivered in the relevant theatres of operation and to the appropriate partners, while also stressing the primary need to conduct prior evaluation of the recipients, as well as to ensure the transparency and traceability of the equipment delivered; undertakes to ensure coherence and complementarity between CSDP missions and operations, the Union’s financial instruments (NDICI) and the EPF;
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Union to build on and develop its CSDP naval operations in order to provide a strong platform to further develop a more permanent operational commitment at international level; calls for consideration to be given to the possibility of organising regular naval exercises that should combine manned and unmanned assets whenever possible to enhance interoperability;
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Condemns the malicious acts committed against Member States; insists that the Union and the Member States react firmly and in coordination against any new malicious, illegal or destabilising activity; calls on the Union to make full use and further strengthen the EU’s Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox, to work towards the creation of a legal instrument to respond to hybrid threats and to develop a comprehensive cyber capacity; calls for a revision of the cyber-defence policy framework in order to increase coordination and cooperation as well as the prevention and deterrence capacity of the Union and its Member States;
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Reaffirms the primary need to facilitate dialogue and cooperation between EU and Member States authorities with the private sector and academia in what concerns the cyber domain and the threats emanating from it; stresses the need to foster a cybersecurity culture within European public and private entities, also through the introduction of devoted courses and curricula;
Amendment 398 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Union to develop a space defence strategy, which is essential for its strategic autonomy in space with this, in turn, serving as an enabler for strategic autonomy in all the other domains; encourages the Union to improve its situational awareness and geo- intelligence support; stresses the importance of the Union having its own launchers; insists that the Union should lead the way in strengthening the increasingly contested area of international space law;
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls for existing Union instruments to be made operational so that they can contribute more effectively to preventing and countering hybrid threats and to protecting critical infrastructure; encourages the establishment of public- private partnerships in what concerns the protection of critical entities; calls for a meaningful exchange of best practices among relevant stakeholders within the EU, and recommends the creation of a secure channel for allowing this exchange;
Amendment 427 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Notes that the pandemic has exposed our vulnerabilities and calls, therefore, for a reduction in Europe’s strategic dependencies; underlines in particular the strong external dependence in rare earths magnets which are key in a number of strategic fields; welcomes EU efforts in these directions and the creation of the European Raw Materials Alliance (ERMA) as a decisive step in reducing such dependency but believe further actions are urgently needed including the urgent establishment of strategic partnerships with resource-rich countries, including for recycling, as underlined by the latest Commission report;
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Laments the reduction in the amount of the EDF under the MFF, which makes coherence between Union defence initiatives even more necessary; stresses, in this regard, the role of the European Defence Agency (EDA); similarly, regrets the budget reduction to Military Mobility;
Amendment 461 #
35. Stresses that PESCO and the EDF must make it possible to enhance defence cooperation between Member States with the following objectives: European added value, operational capability, competitiveness of the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB), giving better value to taxpayers money, strengthening of strategic autonomy and technological sovereignty, and reduced fragmentation of the European defence market;
Amendment 496 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 – introductory part
Paragraph 38 – introductory part
38. Welcomes the fact that the PESCO strategic review has led to a reduction in the numberationalisation of projects and an increase in itstheir political monitoring; laments the fact that Parliament has been excluded from the monitoring of its implementation; considers that the Strategic Compass should aim to:
Amendment 553 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Stresses that the Union should adopt a strategic approach to its partnerships with those international actors who share its core values and principles based, in particular, on the defence of its interests and strategic autonomy;
Amendment 588 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Calls for a stronger NATO supported by a stronger European Union, and wishes to see very tangible development in the EU-NATO partnership starting from enhanced consultation at the political level; calls, in this context, for NATO’s new strategic concept to be coherent with the EU’s Strategic Compass; suggests that the newly established NATO Innovation Fund should be coherent and complementary with the EU initiatives intended for maintaining and enhancing technological superiority;
Amendment 641 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Laments the absence of a security and defence cooperation partnership between the UK and the EU on account of the British Government’s lack of interest, despite the assurances given in the political declaration; calls for a stronger partnership to be built with relevant African organisations, such as the African Union, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and G5 Sahelon the UK Government to open up negotiations for establishing strong cooperation in the foreign policy, security, defence, and capability development domains;
Amendment 642 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)
Paragraph 46 a (new)
46a. Calls for a stronger partnership to be built with relevant African organisations, such as the African Union, and its regional components, most notably the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), as well as with the and G5 Sahel; calls for a thorough and coherent EU support in terms of funding and technical cooperation - also taking advantage of the possibilities offered by the EPF - to the AU’s efforts to establish a Continental Early Warning System and to the operationalisation of the African Standby Force and its regional components;
Amendment 659 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. Calls on citizens to express their expectations as regards the CSDP architecture in the course of the Conference on the Future of Europe and on EU institutions to take such expectations on-board by translating them in concrete proposals and actions; calls for the establishment of a fully-fledged Security and Defence Committee in the European Parliament and for the formalisation of an EU Council of Defence Ministers;
Amendment 666 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. Points out that Parliament should be consulted in advance on the planning, modification and possibility of ending CSDP missions and that its recommendations and remarks should be duly taken into consideration; is determined to play its full role in scrutinising the Global Europe instrument, in particular its peace and security dimension, and in the implementation of the EDF;