Activities of Mick WALLACE related to 2022/2196(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The implementation of civilian CSDP and other EU civilian security assistance (short presentation)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital 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; whereas the demand for civilian crisis management has grown, also as a result of Russia’s unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine in the context of escalating geopolitical tensions, Russia’s unjustified war of aggression against Ukraine and a consequent wave of militarisation and politicisation of conflicts across the region;
Amendment 16 #
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 also adapted to new and emerging challenges such as hybrid threats, including cyberattacks and foreign influence, and the manipulation of information;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. Whereas instrumentalising civilian CSDP to jockey with strategic rivals for power, influence or control over geopolitical narratives in third countries risks undermining civilian CSDP efforts, and is potentially harmful to the maintenance of international peace and security;
Amendment 55 #
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 and added value of civilian CSDP, and by defining a shared level of ambition for civilian crisis managementof civilian CSDP, disentangling it from military CSDP, ensuring it is guided by principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence, and preventing its instrumentalisation in the furtherance of any strategic, military, economic or other objectives which are at cross purposes with the maintenance of international peace and security and addressing the needs of the affected populations;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
Paragraph 4 – introductory part
4. Believes that traditional civilian CSDP tasks such as policing, the rule of law, civil administration, SSR and monitoring remain very important in order to stabilise and modernise the security and justice sectors; underlines the need to continue updating and enlarging tasks in the framework of the Integrated Approach and the Treaties in light of the new risks and threatschallenges to international peace and security that have emerged; stresses the need to integrate and strengthen cross- cutting issues, in particular:
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 – point h
Paragraph 4 – point h
Amendment 102 #
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 (Military CSDP, Global Europe, the Instrument for Pre- accession Assistance) are applied coherently to achieve the EU’s overall objectives of development and peaceful cooperation;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for a substantive increase of fundrebalancing ofor the CFSP budget away from military CSDP and towards civilian CSDP in order to respond to crisis situations and unforeseen events, and to actively identify where complementary projects and programmes could be funded from other relevant EU budgets;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Regrets the fact that while EU spending on defence has recently increased considerably, the funding for civilian CSDP has not; calls for an inversion of these spending priorities; notes that the Strategic Compass fails to take into account the fact that civilian capabilities also require enhanced funds, while privileging military approaches to conflicts and crises;