Activities of Brando BENIFEI related to 2020/2080(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the recommendation to the Council and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy concerning the implementation and governance of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Takes the view that in order to progressively improve the governance and the operational capabilities of PESCO, it would be necessary to assign all non- executive and other executive PESCO missions under direct EUMS responsibility;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Highlights that the creation of PESCO in the framework of the Lisbon Treaty was conceived as the establishment of an avant-garde of Member States willing to pool resources and capabilities towards the achievement of ambitious common objectives in the field of security and defence; considers it necessary for the Union to progressively develop a common framework under the responsibility of the HRVP within which Member States conduct their own national defence policy reviews, share results and pool intelligence, as a means to establish the foundation of a genuine European defence;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to work on a EU Defence and Security White Book, also with a view to better align PESCO projects’ specific objectives with an updated, coherent and comprehensive EU security and defence strategy; with regard to this, highlights the importance of the PESCO 2020 strategic review and supports likewise the establishment of a European Strategic Compass to improve the ability to coordinate in a more timely and effective manner defence initiatives of the Member States towards the common objectives of the Union;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls its position on the Conference on the Future of Europe as expressed in its resolution of 15 January 2020, whereby among pre-defined but non-exhaustive policy priorities security and the role of the EU in the world should be identified;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Acknowledges the crucial role played by the European armed forces in addressing the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, both in the management of the health emergency as well as in support to civilian missions and operations, also having a cross-border dimension and a solidarity function; highlights the potential benefits of new ambitious PESCO projects for the development of common European capabilities in this field, expanding on the work of previous projects, notably the Deployable Military Disaster Relief Capability Package and the European Medical Command;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the participating Member States to continue making resources available for PESCO projects, while ensuring real ownership of and commitment to PESCO coordinating and pooling processes; stresses, in the context of the MFF negotiations, the need to ensure adequate resources to key programmes such as the European Defence Fund and the Military Mobility Programme, which should receive a level of funding at least at the level proposed by the Commission proposal of 2018; points to the necessity of developing a system of genuine Union own resources as a means to enable the alignment of the strategic objectives of the Union in the field of defence, in particular its own strategic autonomy, with the funding for programmes and operations on the ground, notably PESCO project;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Warns however about the risk of foreign interference in the field of the Union’s security and defence, which often take the form of cyber-threats and other forms of hybrid warfare; suggests the newly established Parliament’s special committee on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union to collaborate with Commission and Council in analysing how PESCO projects could strengthen the Union’s resilience against threats of such sort;