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Activities of Laura HUHTASAARI related to 2020/2080(INI)

Shadow opinions (1)

OPINION on the recommendation to the Council and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy concerning the implementation and governance of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO)
2020/09/02
Committee: AFCO
Dossiers: 2020/2080(INI)
Documents: PDF(130 KB) DOC(70 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Esteban GONZÁLEZ PONS', 'mepid': 125027}]

Amendments (7)

Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes the interestparticipation of Member States in permanent structured cooperation (PESCO) following its establishment by Council Decision (CFSP) 2017/2315 of 11 December 2017, as shown by the significant number of projects established so far by the Council under PESCO; encourages participating Member States to advance this work and focus on the swift and effective implementation of these projects;
2020/07/13
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Council and the Member States to continue reinforcing coherence between all instruments and initiatives within the framework of common security and defence policy (CSDP) in order to achieve the required level of effectiveness in ensuring strategic autonomy, and of ambition in the progressive framing of a common Union defence policy in line with the Treaty on European Union;deleted
2020/07/13
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes in this regardCondemns the political guidelines of the Commission regarding defence policy, and in particular regarding the need for bold steps towardsutopian dreaming of a genuine European Defence Union, and for an integrated and comprehensive approach to the EU’s security; hopes thatfurther condemns the creation of a new Commission Directorate- General for Defence Industry and Space, will serve as a catalyst for enhanced coherence in the creation of defence capabilitiehich demands resources urgently needed by the Member States in tackling economic and social impacts of the Covid-19 crisis;
2020/07/13
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Considers it necessary to step up the actual contribution of PESCO projects to the achievement of the EU’s ambiimplement the PESCO projects according to nationsal in the area of security and defence, by effectively ensuring that the participating Member States strengthen their collaboration in significant and ambitious capability development, and that there is coherence between the EU and NATO in terms of priorititerests of the Member States, bearing in mind their sovereignty and that security and defence policy in the European Union is a competence of the Member States;
2020/07/13
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the participating Member States to continue making resources available for PESCO projects, while ensuring real ownership of and commitment to PESCO coordinating and pooling processthe participation in the PESCO projects as long as it furthers their national interests, without any pressure from the EU institutions or other Member States;
2020/07/13
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates that Parliament should play a prominent role in the scrutiny and supervision of the implementation and evaluation of the CSDP; expects in this regard that Parliament will be fully informed and consulted by the Vice- President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy in the context of the current strategic review of the first PESCO phase, which ends in 2020.deleted
2020/07/13
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses that security and defence policy remains in the core of the sovereignty of the Member States; reminds that it is impossible to determine a common security and defence policy line for the EU due to diversity of historical backgrounds, geographical positions and geostrategic interests of the Members States; urges the European Parliament to bear in mind lessons of history for limits of European integration drawn by failures of projects even between six founding members of the European integration project, e.g. the collapse of the Fouchet Plan in the 1960s;
2020/07/13
Committee: AFCO