12 Amendments of Ignazio CORRAO related to 2016/2030(INI)
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EU is under growing, systematic pressure to tackle the information, disinformation and misinformation campaigns from the east and from the southa range of internal and external actors;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the information warfare targeting the West wais fdirst introduced by the Sovietected not only towards the European Union, and has since been an integral part of modern warfare, targeting not onlys such, but also towards partners of the EU, but also all Member States and citizens irrespective of their nationality or religion;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas Russianin the last decade strategic communication accompanied numerous incidents, including cyber-attacks on Estonia in 2007, the war in Georgia in 2008, disinformation following the Smolensk crash in 2010 and the downing of MH-17 in 2014 and also, on an unprecedented scale,, on both sides during the annexation of Crimea, aggression against Ukrainend the Ukrainian civil War and more recently the migration crisis;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas Da’esh and many other Islamic terrorist groups have often used communication strategies as part of their actions against the West andEuropean values of democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and rule of law, also with the aim to boost recruitment of European youth;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that strategic propaganda against the EU comes in many different forms and uses various tools, often tailored to match Member States’ profiles, with the goal of provoking doubt, paralysing the decision-making process, discrediting the EU institutions in the eyes and minds of its citizens and eroding western values and transatlantic ties;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is aware of the range of strategies employed by Da’esh both regionally and globally to promote its political, religious and social narratives; calls on the EU and its Member States to develop a counter- narrative to Da’esh, including through the empowerment and increased visibility of mainstream Muslim scholars who have the credibility to delegitimise Da’esh’s propaganda; considers that the best countervailing information would be provided by policies capable of combating the underlying causes of extremism, starting with poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises that the EU is a targeted audience for Da’esh and calls for the EU and its Member States to work more closely to protect society, in particular young people, from recruitment and radicalisation, recalling that the best way of attaining this aim lies in investment to promote social inclusion and job creation; calls on each Member State to investigate the socio-demographic reasons that are at the root cause of vulnerability to radicalisation;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recognises the possible impact of hostile propaganda on decision-making processes in the EU; calls therefore for the EU Strategic Communication Task Force to be reinforced by turning it into a fully- fledged unit within the EEAS, responsible for the east and for the south, with proper staffing and adequate budgetarya better use of existing financial and human resources;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to conduct a thorough review of the efficiency of the existing EU financial instruments and to come forward with a proposal for a flexible solution which can provide direct support to independent media outlets and enable the channelling of additional resources to organisations that have the ability to do so, such as the European Endowment for Democracy;