Activities of Markéta GREGOROVÁ related to 2023/2119(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2023
Amendments (22)
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 1 June 2023 on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation (2022/2075(INI)),
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Strategic Compass aims to equip the EU with the necessary strategic guidance, realistic and operational tools to move towards a coherent and credible defence policy, based on significantly increased military cooperation between Member States, and to make it an effective and capable security provider and an assertive global actor;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stands united with Ukraine and resolutely condemns Russia’s illegal war of aggression; deplores the global consequences of Russia’s illegal war of aggression which is hitting countries and vulnerable societies around the world through increased energy prices and food shortages and which also grossly violates international law and the principles of the UN Charter, the Helsinki Final Act, principles such as the inviolability of borders and undermines European and global security and stability;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Confirms the EU will continue to support Ukraine for as long as it takes to 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 Euro-Atlantic integration, in particular EU membership;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of the European Peace Facility (EPF) which has supported the Ukrainian armed forces by financing and delivering 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 sustainability and durability of the EPF to be ensured in order to provide Ukraine and other EU partners around the world with the support they request; calls on the Hungarian government to immediately stop blocking the eighth tranche of military aid to Ukraine;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the setting up of the Military Assistance Mission in support of Ukraine and its role in enhancing the military effectiveness of Ukraine’s armed forces so they can defend their territorial integrity within Ukraine’s internationally recognised borders and allow the country to effectively exercise its sovereignty and protection of civilians; stresses the need to provide the necessary personnel and infrastructure to MPCC to exercise planning and command of this important training mission;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the EU’s concrete support to Ukraine through the ‘three ammunition tracks’; urges faster delivery of ammunition from Member States’ existing stocks through the EPF; calls on the HR/VP, the Commission and the Member States 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 the Act in Support of Ammunition Production; further stresses that concrete steps should be taken towards Ukraine’s integration in EU defence and cyber security policies and programmes during the EU membership process, building cooperation and exchange with the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) and 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 Ukraine;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines the commitment of the EU’s heads of state and government, made in the Versailles Declaration, to provide all the necessary support needed by Ukraine and to take greater responsibility for European security by bolstering European defence capabilities; calls on the EU and its Member States to deliver on this commitment by accelerating the full implementation of the Strategic Compass via a massive boost of military cooperation at industrial and armed forces level in order to make the European Union a stronger and more capable security provider; strongly believes that because of the profound changes to the Europeans security environment, military cooperation at EU-level should become the rule and cannot remain the exception;
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Reminds the Member States of their commitment to strengthening the military planning and conduct capacity and achieving full operational capability, including through the provision of adequate premises, staff, and reorganisation of the EU Military Staff; urges the Member States and the HR/VP to guarantee that before the end of 2023 the MPCC reaches Full Operational Capability (FOC) and recalls the Council conclusions of 19 November 2018, which foresaw a 2020 deadline; demands that the MPCC's staff level should be increased considerably up to 250 personnel and related infrastructure and equipment should be upgraded; stresses that one of the existing four national Operational Headquarters (OHQ) should be designed as fall-back option;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Reiterates its full support for the rapid deployment capacity (RDC) with at least 5 000 troops available for rescue and evacuation tasks, initial entry and stabilisation operations or temporary reinforcement of missions which should be operational latest at the end of 2024; calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR) to set out the practical modalities for implementing Article 44 TEU without delay and until the end of 2023, in order to allow a group of willing and able Member States to plan and conduct a mission or operation within the EU framework and, thereby, ensure the swift activation of the RDC which should be, similar as NATO’s VTFJ, ready to move within two or three days; stresses the need to launch a process which assesses the possibility of creating more permanent multinational units at EU-level which should implement different functions and needs, from field hospitals, military medical services to logistics and military engineers to special forces, and could partly or entirely rely on existing capabilities such as the Franco-German brigade, the German-Dutch corps;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the VP/HR and Member States to deliver more robust, flexible and modular CSDP missions and operations, that can adapt to the changing security context and that build on the synergies and complementarities of civilian and military dimensions of CSDP; welcomes the adoption of the new Civilian CSDP Compact and the commitment to increase the effectiveness, flexibility and responsiveness of civilian missions, including through speeding up decision making, strengthening operational planning, improving selection and recruitment of personnel, emphasising greater gender equality and improving responsiveness tools; believes that civilian and military missions need to focus more on the key elements of human security which means that they not only reform, defend and stabilise security institutions in partner countries but also directly respond to the security needs of the local population;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises the importance of adequate, flexible and sustainable funding for all security and defence programs and initiatives, including the CFSP budget and the EPF; regrets the fact that the CFSP budget has only marginally increased from the multiannual financial framework (MFF) 2014-2020 to the MFF 2021-2027 (from a starting point of approximately EUR 350 million per year), while at the same time the number and tasks of the CSDP missions financed by the CFSP budget have increased, the security environment has become more challenging, the cost of operations has increased; urges therefore the Member for a substantive increase of funding for the CFSP budget, while at the same time ensuring the efficient use of the funds allocated to the CSDP civilian missions, in order to make sure that they effectively respond to crisis situations and unforeseen events; calls for a substantive increase of funding for the CFSP budget, including a dedicated CFSP budget line establishing a civilian support facility to provide partner countries with equipment and services to enhance their civilian capabilities; calls on the Member States to increase the resources allocated to security and defence in the next multiannual financial framework; further calls on Member States to amend the EPF financing process to ensure adequate and sustainable support for partners, allies and CSDP operations;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Calls for the structure of the CFSP budget to be changed and for the generation of one budget line per civilian CSDP mission, in order to allow for better scrutiny and increased transparency;
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the increased budgets and investment in defence by EU Member States and institutions, and calls for their impact to be maximised in order to deliver the needed capabilities to Europe’s armed forces through increased joint procurement and joint investment in defence research and development; deplores, however, that neither the Russian aggression against Ukraine nor the existing EU-level defence industrial programmes have led to a real shift towards making EU-level cooperation the norm; stresses the fact that uncoordinated national defence spending potentially increases the costs for defence products available on the market and has similar negative effects as uncoordinated gas or vaccine purchases by individual Member States; urges therefore Member States to boost defence industrial cooperation and set, as minimum targets, the 35% European collaborative defence equipment procurement benchmark and the 20% European collaborative defence R&T benchmark as agreed by all Member States within the European Defence Agency;
Amendment 316 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Considers that the European Defence Fund, regrettably still underfinanced, shows the added-value of EU-level action in European defence and recommends the extension of Commission proposals in all defence-related fields of EU policy in coordination with Member States and the VP/HR; welcomes the recent Commission proposals to increase the funding of EDF which also takes into account the challenging geopolitical situation; calls for the fast and efficient implementation of EDIRPA and ASAP;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Believes that besides EU-budget funded programmes there is the urgent need to pool parts of rising national defence budgets by establishing additional EU-level instruments that boost cooperation regarding the entire life-cycle of military and dual-use capabilities and guarantee full interoperability of armed forces of Member States; recalls in this respect point 1(m) of its recommendation of 8 June 2022 on the EU’s Foreign, Security and Defence Policy after the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine which called to urgently launch a discussion with a view to establishing another off-budget financial facility which would address the entire life-cycle of military capabilities at EU level;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on Member States to increase their levels of defence spending to adjust to the current geopolitical situation, and address the significant threats towards the Union’s security and spend them in a well- coordinated and collaborative manner which guaranties economies of scale, synergies and fully interoperable military capabilities and armed forces; calls on the EU NATO Member States to increase their military budgets to, based on assessed own requirements, to spend at least 2 % of GDP considering the impact of historic under-investment and spiralling inflation on defence budgets;
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights that China has established a ‘no-limits friendship’ with Russia, that includes significant transfer of technology and military capabilities, and poses an increasing number of security challenges to the EU, especially in the fields of cyber and FIMI; stresses the need for the EU to strengthen the security and integrity of its critical infrastructures, supply chains and technology base, including through close monitoring of their ownership and control by actors linked to the Chinese government; calls for increased vigilance against China's intensifying hybrid warfare in the Indo- Pacific, notably towards Taiwan, a daily target of constant cyberattacks predominantly from China; emphasizes collaboration with Taiwan, leveraging its expertise and technological edge against Chinese cyber threats, given regional and EU security concerns;
Amendment 434 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Emphasises that the EU must further develop its own capabilities in all domains of Land, Sea, Air, Space and Information and in the utilisation and development of emerging technologies to protect the sovereignty of all Member States while enhancing its security cooperation with partners across the globe;
Amendment 446 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Underlines the importance of the partnership dimension of the Strategic Compass in reinforcing cooperation between the EU and its allies and partners around the world in order to foster strategic solidarity and counter foreign strategies aimed at undermining the EU and destabilising the rules-based international order; welcomes the long- awaited third Joint Declaration on EU- NATO Cooperation which confirmed that the EU and NATO are essential partners who share common values and strategic interests, and who work in complementarity to ensure Euro-Atlantic and global security and stability; calls in particular for synergies and coherence between NATO’s Strategic Concept and the EU’s Strategic Compass, particularly in the areas of countering Russian aggression, hybrid and cyber warfare, and providing support to partners; underlines that Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine brought to the fore the links between attempts at foreign manipulation of information and threats to the EU and its immediate neighbourhood; calls on all Member States to implement the recommendations of the European Parliaments reports on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation; stresses the urgent need to develop and agree on technical interoperability standards and norms for military technology;
Amendment 510 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls for the reinforcement of parliamentary democracy and improved scrutiny of non-EU partner countries through parliamentary dialogues on security and defence issues and by building parliamentary resilience against hybrid threats, including cyber and FIMI; recalls that Israeli spyware mercenary NSO recently hacked phones of Russian dissidents in exile and that such exports of zero-click cyber intrusion capabilities constitute an unacceptable breach of the privacy and security of all people in the European Union; calls on the VP/HR to initiate an investigation into NSOs relationship with the Russian Government;
Amendment 515 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Notes that the increase in spending on defence policies and programmes at an EU level and among the Member States requires full parliamentary scrutiny and accountability; reiterates in this respect its demand for delegated acts for work programmes of EU-budget funded defence industrial programmes; underlines the existing calls for the establishment of a fully-fledged European Parliament Committee on Security and Defence, in recognition ofprovided that this committee would be in the lead on the emerging defence acquis in the framework of the EU with scrutiny, legislation and budgetary responsibilities;