Activities of Özlem DEMIREL related to 2023/2119(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2023
Amendments (4)
Amendment 158 #
2. Confirmsiders the EU will continue to support Ukraine for as long as it takes toapproach to militarily support Ukraine will not end Russia’s war of aggression and restore Ukraine’s territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders, enabling it to effectively exercise its sovereignty, protect its civilians and fulfil their wish for EU membershipbut will lead to more suffering in Ukraine, to further destruction and hardship while the war gets prolonged with more and more deaths and injured; calls on EU Member States instead to make all efforts to increase diplomacy and either initiate or support diplomatic efforts to reach as first step an immediate ceasefire and to craete the environment for peace negotiations and the initiativen of the process of sustainable recovery, reconstruction and modernisation of Ukraine;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. StresCriticises the importanceestablishment of the European Peace Facility (EPF) in 2020, which has supportednot facilitated any peace but is fulling the Ukrainian armed forces by financing and delivering weapons, munition, military equipment and training, while providing coordination for all stakeholders through the Clearing House Mechanism hosted by the EU Military Staff; calls for the financial sustainabch only leads to further fuelling the war and arms exports than preventing them; urges, instead of further pursuing military and durability of the EPF to be ensured in order to provide Ukraine and other EU partners around the world with the support they requestpproaches to address the causes of conflicts and wars through diplomatic and peaceful conflict resolution;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the EU’s concreCriticises the unprecedented support to Ukraine through the ‘three ammunition tracks’; urges faster delivery of ammunition from Member States’ existing stocks through the EPF; calls for the joint procurement of ammunition for Ukraine to be sped up and stresses the need to ramp up the third track and ensure the effective implementation of thepeed of militarisation and the built-up of a military Union with armoury budgets like the European defence industry reinforcement through common procurement act (EDIRPA), Act in Support of Ammunition Production (ASAP); fEurther stresses that concrete steps should be taken towards Ukraine’s integration in EU defence policies and programmes during the EU membership process, building on the existing agreement with the European Defence Agency (EDA) and as a beneficiary of the European defence industry reinforcement through common procurement act (EDIRPA); calls on the European External Action Service to come forward with a plan for a sustainable and long- term package of security commitments for Ukraineopean Defence Fund (EDF) which are financed from EU budget which violates Article 41.2 TEU and therefore needs to be classified as illegal; opposes the establishment of a military union as well as the continued support of the defence and arms industry; stresses that the transformation of the EU into a military union will be mainly at the expense of social programmes and civil conflict resolution;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Rejects the Strategic Compass and its presentation as a security strategy, where the security needs of the people in the EU and peace are not a priority; stresses that the compass is rather a working programme to rearm the European Union and its member states; deplores that the European Union has once again missed the opportunity to seriously analyse the fundamental origins of conflicts, insecurity and wars; underlines that the strategic compass could have been the beginning to re- establish a european peace order and to focus on political balance, diplomacy and disarmament instead of escalation, power struggles and war; highlighting in this regards the obvious limits of military crisis management, in particular military missions and operations as the conflicts and developments in Afghanistan, Mali, Somalia, Burkina Faso and lately Niger have shown; calls for the reconsideration and finally for the termination of EU- military training and advisory missions also in view of their disastrous results and effects;