Activities of Ernest URTASUN related to 2020/2149(DEC)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2019, Section X – European External Action Service
Amendments (2)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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2. Notes the persisting gender and geographical imbalances within the EEAS staff, despite positive trends in recent years; reiterates the importance of ensuring a balanced distribution of staff in terms of gender and geographical origin within different categories and grades, particularly at middle and senior management levels; is appalled by the fact that women make up only 26% of the EEAS workforce in middle management and 31.3% in senior management, and that the last top appointments resulted in an all-male leadership of the EEAS; calls on the EEAS to swiftly work towards the objective of 50% of women in senior and middle management positions, as set out in the Gender Action Plan III, including through a clear timeline and measures that set out when and how to achieve this objective; calls on the HR/VP to implement his stated commitments to gender equality and women’s representation in his own service; points also to persisting over- representation of some Member States’ diplomats among the Heads of Delegation; calls for further efforts to address those imbalances;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the need to fight foreign propaganda and to expose disinformation and malicious foreign influencemalicious interference including disinformation; underlines the importance of the EEAS Strategic Communication Task Force and calls for the broadening of its mandate, including in relation to state sponsored disinformation origicreation of a dedicated StratCom Task Force on interference emanating infrom China, and providing it with further necessary financial and human resources;