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Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that in future the EU and its Members States will have to rely less on the United States and take greater responsibility for their own security and territorial defence. Calls on the ~~EU and the~~ Member States, therefore, to improve their strategic autonomy regarding defence capabilities and capacities, in order to be prepared to respond to the broad spectrum of civilian and military threats and risks, in full complementarity with NATO;

2016/02/25
Committee: AFET

James CARVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Urges the EU in consequence to enhance coherent and structured cooperation on defence research, the industrial base and cyber defence through pooling and sharing, in order to use defence budgets more efficiently. The European Defence Agency’s role needs to be strengthened and its resources increased to enable it to act more effectively. Member States should take more responsibility for building European capabilities and increase their military research expenditure through the EDA. Furthermore, a true European intelligence and forecasting capacity needs to be developed;deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: AFET

James CARVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Believes that a principal objective should be to move towards voluntary joint defence forces and the framing of a common defence policy which will ultimately lead to a common defence. Supports, therefore, the drafting of a White paper on EU Defence, thereby updating the Helsinki Headline Goal from 1999;deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: AFET

James CARVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Believes that in order to gain more credibility as a global security and foreign policy actor, the EU should take greater responsibility and focus on filling the security vacuum in its neighbourhood and among our neighbours’ neighbours;deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: AFET

James CARVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Is of the opinion that in order to build stability and peace, the EU should keep up its enlargement commitments and continue cooperation with very closely associated countries within the context of the newly revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP); recalls that according to Article 49 TEU any European state may apply to become a member of the European Union, provided it adheres to the Copenhagen criteria and the principles of democracy and respect for fundamental freedoms and human and minority rights, and ensures the rule of law;deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: AFET

James CARVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

~~11. Believes that the EU should be a constructive and resilient global actor with a regional focus and aspire to be a ‘rule-maker’, establishing efficient multilateral global governance;~~deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: AFET

James CARVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls on the EU institutions and Member States to pursue the comprehensive / joined-up / integral approach in their external action and to take account of the inextricable link between internal and external security; in this regards, calls on the EU to focus more on building synergies between security, development, trade and EU external action;deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: AFET

James CARVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Highlights the need for a political will in the Member States to make more use of constructive abstentions in the Council on CFSP/CSDP issues in order to create momentum in this area (variable geometry), and supports the establishment of the Council of Defence Ministers format, as well as regular European Council meetings on defence; believes that willing Member States should also make use of the possibility of moving towards Permanent Structured Cooperation in Defence (PESCO);deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: AFET

James CARVER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

~~17. Notes that in order to attain the above objectives, the EU must deepen its partnerships with other global and regional actors and its partnerships with non-state actors and civil society;~~deleted

2016/02/25
Committee: AFET

Activities of James CARVER related to 2015/2272(INI)

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