BETA

Activities of Urmas PAET related to 2021/0227(BUD)

Plenary speeches (1)

General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022 - all sections (debate)
2021/10/19
Dossiers: 2021/0227(BUD)

Opinions (1)

OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022
2021/09/28
Committee: AFET
Dossiers: 2021/0227(BUD)
Documents: PDF(153 KB) DOC(75 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Urmas PAET', 'mepid': 129073}]

Amendments (14)

Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Recalls the need to implement strict conditionality in regard to financial support for EU’s partner countries and neighbourhood in cases of human rights violations;
2021/09/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Welcomes the increased contribution from NDICI and IPA III to Erasmus+, enabling increased mobility of students from the pre-accession countries;
2021/09/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Notes that from 2022 onwards the activities funded by the EU Trust Funds will be largely programmed and implemented through NDICI-Global Europe; insists on full involvement of the Parliament in decisions including contributions to the EU Trust Funds from the Union budget; insists on ensuring that the FRT funding will not come at the expense of the newly adopted financing instruments IPA III and NDICI-Global Europe (including the cushion); advocates for the funding of any such initiative through fresh appropriations;
2021/09/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Reaffirms that the EU must continue to provide effective and monitored aid to Syrian refugees in Turkey, ensuring that its funds are directly and in full transparency channelled to non-governmental organisations; insists that the European Parliament will be fully informed about the types of expenditure financed and the channels used to reach all beneficiaries;
2021/09/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Insists that all funding for the civil society organisations in Afghanistan will be allocated directly to these organisations without using the Taliban government as an intermediary; calls for special attention to be focussed on the support of women and children in Afghanistan;
2021/09/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Insists that the room for external action expenditure given by the MFF ceiling for Heading 6 'Neighbourhood and the world' and the rules for the mobilisation of the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve must be fully utilised; reiterates that the balance between the resources assigned to the different external action instruments through the respective regulations must be preserved; emphasises that the future funding for the needs of the Syrian refugees was not factored in the MFF or NDICI-Global Europe discussion sand it should therefore not be borne by the programmed instruments; furthermore, as the expected Syrian refugees package is not responding to a new crisis or unforeseen needs, stresses that any funding from the emergency cushion of NDICI-Global Europe towards this should be limited; calls instead on Member States to make available additional "fresh funds" for this package;
2021/09/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Emphasises that optic fibre cables are the central nervous system of the global internet, as 97% of all internet traffic travels through these cables; Underlines that although these cables are a central and indispensable part of the critical infrastructure of the EU and thus of great geopolitical importance, they have recently been the subject of foreign spying operations; believes that the EU should prioritize the security and protection of these cables; calls for the EU to set up an EU optic fibre cables security program, that includes research, coordination, policy-making, the tracking of incidents and the training of coast guards;
2021/09/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the Bureau to draw up a translation of key foreign policy resolutions adopted under Rule 54 (own- initiative reports) into the non-Union official languages of the United Nations (namely Arabic, Chinese and Russian), as well as country-specific resolutions adopted under Rules 132 (resolution accompanying Commission/VPHR statements) and 144 (urgency resolution) into the official language of the country concerned, with a view to enhancing the impact and outreach of the Parliament's foreign affairs activities, and calls on the budgetary authority to ensure that sufficient appropriations are made available for that purpose;
2021/09/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on strengthening support for fighting disinformation and challenges linked to EU’s work against foreign interference; calls for ensuring appropriate funding and mandates for the EEAS units and projects dealing with this issues; calls for a creation of a Far East Task Force to tackle threats coming from the far east and south east Asia region;
2021/09/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Acknowledges the need to reinforce the EEAS in order to allow it to fulfil its functions under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime; calls for adequate funding for additional staff in order to ensure carrying out the tasks under this new EU foreign policy tool;
2021/09/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7 c. Rejects the Council’s cuts to the administrative budget of the European External Action Service; calls on the Rapporteur for the Committee on Budgets for section X to restore the draft budget on all lines cut by the Council in section X;
2021/09/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Stresses the importance of the protection of the EU against foreign interference and influence, notably through hybrid attacks and disinformation, and the key role the EEAS plays therein; recalls that the European Court of Auditors has concluded that the EEAS needs a broader mandate to tackle the surge in hybrid attacks in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and new emerging threats, accompanied with sufficient funding; calls the European Commission to meet those demands and calls for the creation of a dedicated Far East Task Force, to deal with the specific threats coming from the far east and south east Asia region;
2021/09/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
9. SUnderlines the importance of connecting the Common Foreign and Security Policy to the EU Arctic Policy and stresses the responsibility of the Union to support the protection of the Arctic and its local communities.
2021/09/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Welcomes an ambitious external Gender Action Plan (GAP III), calls for adequate financial resources for its implementation;
2021/09/02
Committee: AFET