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24 Amendments of Urmas PAET related to 2018/2115(INI)

Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
State of play 2018 – Tackling informationhybrid warfare
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph c
c) to support the growing number of state institutions, think tanks, NGOs and other actors dealing with propaganda and disinformation, and ensure that EU strategic communication becomes a matter of high priority on the European agenda; calls on the VP/HR and the Commission to become more closely involved in this area;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph c a (new)
ca) to ensure that the EU institutions and Member States work hand in hand on existing and future initiatives to step up efforts to secure free and fair democratic processes and to address disinformation campaigns, which attempt to create divisions in open societies and interfere in the elections and decision-making process of EU, Member States and EU's neighbours;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph d a (new)
da) to raise awareness about Russia´s disinformation campaigns, as this constitutes the main source for disinformation in Europe;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph e
e) to recognise the work done at various levels to identify the types of influence and tools used against the EU and its neighbours, and to shift attention to in-depth analysis of their impact and effectiveness in order to develop measures to counteract them; raising awareness about ongoing disinformation campaigns, identifying and naming the source of disinformation to give a proper response;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph f
f) to focus and adapt EU and Member States' response on the continuously growing sophistication of the tools used to spread fake news, including the new ways of spreading propaganda by using multiple low-level websites, deep fakes and video content manipulations, automated bots, encrypted messaging services, on-line portals and TV stations to disseminate the main narratives; is concerned about Russia’s and other third parties' activities in this context;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph h a (new)
ha) to make sure the industry and on- line platforms deliver on the commitments undertaken in the Code of Practice on Disinformation and effectively tackle the disinformation problem by: (i) ensuring transparency of political advertising based on effective due diligence checks of the identity of sponsors, (ii) taking decisive action against fake accounts active on their services, (iii) identifying the misuse of automated bots, and (iv) cooperating effectively with independent fact- checkers;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 144 #
k) to continue to develop greater resilience based on all government and all society approach, and the ability to respond to threats in real time, develop pre- emptive measures and think one step ahead, rather than merely reacting to and analysing attacks that have already taken place; to work in cooperation with intelligence community and INTCEN;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph l
l) to pay special attention to the importance of not only debunking and exposing, but also ensuring the clear attribution of such attacks, including publicly naming the perpetrators, their sponsors and the goals they seek to achieve, as well as measuring the effects of these attacks on the targeted audience;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph m a (new)
ma) to raise awareness about negative impact of disinformation through dedicated communication campaigns as well as seminars and trainings for media, influencers and public opinion shapers in the EU and its neighbourhood;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph m b (new)
mb) to support cross-border cooperation on media literacy programmes and promote tools for the media literacy, such as EU on-line media literacy library and learning centre;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph n a (new)
na) to welcome the establishment of the new EEAS Strategic Communication Task Forces consisting of experts with appropriate linguistic and knowledge skills, namely the Task Force for Western Balkans and the Task Force South for the countries in the Middle East, Northern Africa and Gulf region, which are tasked to ensure coordinated and consistent EU communications in the regions and counteract disinformation and propaganda against the EU;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph n b (new)
nb) to support the joint efforts of the Commission and the EEAS to improve capabilities to detect, analyse and expose disinformation by equipping the EEAS Strategic Communication Task Forces and EU Delegations in the neighbourhood with new staff, tools and skills, including new data analysis tools, hiring of additional data scientists and disinformation experts, as well as covering a wider range of sources and languages on the reach and impact of disinformation;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph o
o) to turnsupport all three EastEAS StratCom Task Force into a fully-fledged unit, and to provideegic Communication Task Forces by providing them with adequate financial and personnel resources which willaimed at significantly increase itsof their potential, effectiveness, professionalism, institutional continuity and quality of work;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph o a (new)
oa) to make sure that the forthcoming allocation of the funding by the European Parliament, including the 3 M euros top- up of prep action, will be directed to actual countering of Russian disinformation and placed under East StratCom Task Force control, as designated;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph p
p) to address the current deficiencies in the East StratCom Task Force, including lack of regional expertise, a large turnover of staff and lack of institutional continuity, and to ensure adequate financial resources and an adequate organisational structure, as this is the only way to ensure full professionalism, effectiveness and results;deleted
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph q
q) to invite Member States which have not done so already to assign their own seconded National Experts to the Eastthree StratCom Task Forces;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph r
r) to engage the EU Representations inside the EU, and the EU Delegations outside the EU, in supporting the work of the East StratCom Task Force, Task Force South and Task Force for Western Balkans, including by providing translations of their publications in local languages;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph s
s) to focus on the accession countries and partners in the EU neighbourhood, which are often on the front line in terms of exposure to Russian propaganda; to assist them in their efforts to counteract hostile propaganda and disinformation activities, inter alia by supporting strategic communication units within their respective institutions; to urge these EU partner countries, when necessary, to take more dedicated, proactive, effective and transparent measures in this regard;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph s a (new)
sa) to strengthen capabilities of the EU Delegations abroad, the Commission Representations and the European Parliament Liaison Offices in Member States to develop local capacity to detect and expose disinformation and to communicate effectively the EU's values and policies;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph s b (new)
sb) to extend campaign-based communication and better coordinate and amplify positive narratives across the EU institutions and Member States, including by consolidating respective budgets and building a shared on-line repository of success stories;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph u
u) to propose to the next European Council and the Commission that counteracting strategic propaganda is given a separate portfolio in the new Commission with adequate support from a specialised agency;deleted
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph v
v) to link existing national and local specialised centres, think tanks, NGOs and other actors and institutions, in particular NATO, dealing with strategic propaganda into an EU-wide network that would help coordinate their actions and gather their findings in one place; to assign adequate resources to this undertaking; stresses that this network should be open to like-minded partners of the EU;
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Instructs its President to forward this recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and, for information, to the EEAS and NATO, as well as the President, Government and Parliament of Russia.
2018/12/05
Committee: AFET