Activities of Assita KANKO related to 2022/2196(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the implementation of civilian CSDP and other EU civilian security assistance
Amendments (27)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. A. whereas civilian crisis management has become established as a key pillar of the EU’s CSDP since 1999 in conflict prevention, stabilisation and promotion of sustainable peace; recognises that these missions do not yet realize their full potential in security sector reform and require a revised mandate to ensure that effective training and operational capabilities are required to keep pace with the evolving threat environment to Europe’s East and South; whereas the demand for civilian crisis management has grown, also as a result of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas civilian CSDP tasks have, over the years, broadened to include, inter alia, transitional justice, mediation, dialogue and conflict analysis, and have alsothe affording of strategic advice to develop strategic documents and legislation; supporting the implementation of reforms with practical advice, training and equipment; and promoting cooperation and coordination to ensure coherence and reform effortsand must be further adapted to address new and emerging challenges such as irregular migration, hybrid threats, including cyberattacks and foreign influterference , and the manipulation of information for harmful purposes, among others;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the adoption of the Civilian CSDP Compact in 2018 was a significant step forward in strengthening the EU’s civilian crisis management capacity, enhancing Member States’ ownership, responsibility and contribution of resources; whereas further political commitment isas well human and economic resources are needed to deliver on the agreed objectives and increase the legitimacy of these missions;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the Member States are due to adopt a new Civilian CSDP Compact by May 2023 in order to continue efforts towards a more effective and capable civilian CSDP missions, especially considering the war in Ukraine and the increasing security challenges at a global level;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas the EU identity in CSDP missions reinforces the EU as a legitimate civilian power, adding political, strategic and operational value across Eastern Europe, particularly in and around the Black Sea Region;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
E b. whereas CSDP’s access to both planning, resources and logistics gives it the potential to become the primary enabler of civilian crisis management during emergencies and should be used as a practice hub of societal resilience and recovery in the face of both man-made and natural disasters;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
E c. whereas hybrid threats in the years to come will see the systematic combination of information warfare, agile force manoeuvre, mass cyber warfare and emerging and disruptive technologies from sea-bed to space with both advanced air-breathing and space–based surveillance and strike systems deployed, all of which will be enabled by advanced artificial intelligence (AI), quantum computing, increasingly ‘intelligent’ drone swarm technologies, offensive cyber capabilities, hypersonic missile systems, and Nano-tech and bio-warfare;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E d (new)
Recital E d (new)
E d. whereas the EU’s Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability (CPCC) will have to consider how to protect a deployed EU force against such threats or conduct such operations at a far higher level of risk than today;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the Member States to use the new Civilian CSDP Compact to strengthen their strategic vision of civilian crisis management by clarifying the role, effectiveness and added value of civilian CSDP, and by defining a shared level of ambition for civilian crisis management;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point b
Paragraph 4 – point b
b) security needs and ownership of local populations and hte protection and preservation of cultural heritage,
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point h a (new)
Paragraph 4 – point h a (new)
h a) fight against corruption;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that anticipating future changes in the security environment is key to ensuring that civilian crisis management will achieve its strategic objectives; calls for the new Civilian CSDP Compact to implement more scenario-based planning, strategic foresight and conflict analysis, and early warning in decision-making on missions and mandates and enforce the collaboration with host countries;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Believes that the creation of an External Auditing Agency would be a key instrument in order to check effectively the fulfilment of the established objectives since the beginning of the missions;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Calls on the Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability (CPCC), EU Military Committee (EUMCC) and EU Military Staff to develop a model for generating and sharing best practice campaign/mission planning concepts that are shared at the earliest stage possible with partners vital to campaign success;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Calls on the CPCC and EU Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC) to emphasise the professional civil-military education of all staff in CSDP missions by utilizing the European Security and Defence College to help shape the expertise of civil and defence professionals to ensure that CSDP personnel can better recognise and respond to the complexity of security challenges evident in their countries of deployment;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the new Civilian CSDP Compact to be used to strive for the full, equal and meaningful participation of women in civilian CSDP, including, as a first step, to increase the participation of women to at least 40 % across missions and at all levels by 2024in the coming years;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States, the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to develop a concrete plan on how to implement the integrated approach and ensure that all relevant EU instruments, particularly PESCO, EDF, EDA as well as (Military CSDP, Global Europe, the Instrument for Pre- accession Assistance), are applied coherently to achieve the EU’s overall objectives;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines the challenges that civilian CSDP missions face, such as the availability of capabilities and resources, responsiveness, lack of key performance indicators, swifter decision-making and more scalable, adaptable, modular missions and clearer mandates, and that these were already highlighted in the first Compact, which has led to an increased focus on civilian CSDP, but not to full operationalisation and the corresponding increase in participation and ownership by Member States, which need to be addressed as a matter of urgency in the new Civilian CSDP Compact;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for clear exit strategies for civilian missions, with metrics to measure their success, allowing for swifter closure of missions when operational and political objectives are met;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Regrets the fact that the only assessments of civilian CSDP missions currently in place are Strategic Reviews feeding into the renewal of the mission mandates; stresses the importance of developing and establishing a system and methodology to assess, inter alia, the performance of missions, their effectiveness and their financial management; stresses, in this regard, the importance of establishing an independent evaluation ofExternal Auditing Agency to evaluate the impact of the missions;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses the need to reform the human resources policy and management system, and to ensure that the working conditions in civilian CSDP missions contribute to a safer and more inclusive environment; welcomes the EEAS’s efforts to address weaknesses in the support provided to staff in missions, including the revision of the Code of Conduct, with a particular focus on human rights principlesto develop a model for generating and sharing best practice campaign/mission planning concepts that are shared at the earliest stage possible with partners vital to campaign success that prioritizes accomplishment of mission objectives, human rights principles and ensuring a sustainable security architecture is in place before a mission is concluded;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Calls on the Commission, EEAS, CPCC and EUMCC to better adapt to building interagency Working Groups with exercising and training used to help develop best practice interagency cooperation and the robust cross-function personal relationships critical to effective civ-mil partnerships in places like EaP countries;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Calls for the new Strategic Compass to provide the CSDP missions with the political and strategic ambition, capabilities, and resources needed to generate positive change; reaffirms the goal of the Strategic Compass to deliver a positive impact in regards to the swiftness and robustness of common responses to global conflicts;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21 c. Calls for CSDP mission mandates to include advisory and training tasks for dealing with emerging technologies;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 d (new)
Paragraph 21 d (new)
21 d. Calls for the EU to address the consistent and growing threats to the protection and preservation of cultural heritage and clamp down on the smuggling of cultural artefacts, especially in conflict zones; notes that depriving societies of their cultural heritage and historical roots makes them more vulnerable to radicalisation; calls for the EU to develop a broad strategy to counteract such threats;