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Activities of Andrius KUBILIUS related to 2022/2064(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

2022/11/22
Dossiers: 2022/2064(INI)

Shadow reports (1)

2022/10/17
Committee: AFET
Dossiers: 2022/2064(INI)
Documents: PDF(200 KB) DOC(75 KB)
Authors: [{'name': 'Tonino PICULA', 'mepid': 112744}]

Amendments (18)

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas the nature of EU enlargement is a win-win process, which has always been a very effective and successful instrument of boosting necessary reforms both inside the EU and outside, in particular for the EU applicant countries, as the EU history of enlargements has proved – since there is not a single example on the European continent that any country, which went through the democratic transformation, was able to create its own success of democratic prosperity without integration towards the EU;

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

B a. whereas the new EU strategy of enlargement should take into account the lessons learned in the ongoing process with the Eastern Partnership countries and the accession negotiations, especially with the Western Balkan countries;

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

B b. whereas the new EU strategy of enlargement should be strictly based on the principle of each country being able to choose freely its own path; the EU needs to be ready to defend the freedom of these countries to choose their own future with the EU;

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)

B c. whereas the new EU strategy of enlargement first of all shall address the issue of a lacking political will over the last decade on EU side and a lack of geopolitical ambitions by the EU to embrace the European aspirations of the neighbouring countries and their peoples;

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – introductory part

1. REmphasises the necessity for the EU to upgrade its enlargement strategy and recommends that the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy submits the corresponding proposals as soon as possible, starting with 2022, to address the following actions:

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)

(a a) the EU should see the enlargement as an existential necessity for the EU, because this is the way how democracy, prosperity, stability and peace can be spread to all the European continent;

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b a (new)

(b a) the new EU enlargement strategy should encourage the EU to implement the very much delayed reforms of EU institutions and decision-making; this will have a positive effect on the functioning of EU, in particular for a more effective decision-making which may be achieved with a full use of the qualified majority voting, which in its turn will increase a geopolitical power of the EU in the region and globally;

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b b (new)

(b b) the next wave of EU enlargement will have a positive long-term effect on the EU relations with its neighbours, including Russia, as the success of Ukraine or the Western Balkan countries can be created through the enlargement process, which at the end will serve as an inspiration for the people in the neighbouring countries to follow the example of Ukraine or the Western Balkan countries;

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b c (new)

(b c) the next wave of EU enlargement in the new strategy will have the same positive effects both for the Western Balkans applicant countries under the stabilisation and association process, as well as for the Eastern Partnership applicant countries under the association process with the EU;

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)

(d a) the new EU enlargement strategy should be able to address the specific situations of particular candidate countries and allow to adjust the sequence of opening and closing of the negotiating chapters in areas of the rule of law and fundamental rights which can be directly affected by the martial law provisions

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f a (new)

(f a) the new EU enlargement strategy should clearly state that use of bilateral issues by the Member States for their own benefit is a vis the candidate countries is contrary to the spirit of the EU Treaties and therefore may be addressed by appropriate EU measures towards those Member States

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subheading 1 a (new)

2022 Enlargement Package

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g b (new)

(g a) the new EU enlargement strategy should address the following important questions: 1) why Ukraine in 2014 was left in a geopolitical grey zone and was not offered the European perspective by the EU; 2) why the EU enlargement into the Western Balkans has become a total impasse totally different from the big bang enlargement in 2004; 3) how not to allow the enlargement process to be trapped again on the EU side by the lack of EU institutional reforms; 4) how to ensure that bilateral disagreements should not become an obstacle to the whole process of enlargement; 5) how not to allow third parties to blackmail and threaten the EU by claiming that the EU enlargement as a violation of their interests;

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)

(g b) the new EU strategy should have the same geopolitical ambition as the EU Enlargement strategy (combining the big bang and regatta principles) adopted in 1993 by the European Council in Copenhagen and should involve the swift opening of accession negotiations with a block of candidate countries in accordance with the European Commission recommendations;

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g b (new)

(g c) for the new EU strategy to remain meaningful, the next wave of EU enlargement should be defined by the target dates for accession, which could begin in 2025 for the Western Balkan applicant countries and remain in a similar range, but not later than 2029 for the Eastern Partnership applicant countries, if these countries will meet the necessary EU benchmarks, will successfully transpose them and where appropriate will be ready to implement effectively the EU acquis through administrative and judicial structures; if some countries of this block are not yet ready or unwilling, they should be kept engaged by the EU and offered a new target date of accession in the next wave of EU enlargement

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g c (new)

(g d) the new EU enlargement strategy will involve an enhanced methodology for the accession negotiations, which would grand immediate benefits to the applicant countries once they will close provisionally the key clusters of EU acquis, such as the EU Single Market or the Green Growth Agenda; the Ukrainian Relief and Reconstruction programme can be also linked to new EU strategy for enlargement as a powerful engine of economic growth and transformation in the EU neighbourhood;

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g d (new)

(g e) the new EU enlargement strategy should provide for a clear system of benefits under each of the negotiating clusters, in particular for key cluster of the Single Market which would involve policy, budgetary and institutional benefits for the candidate countries;

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET

Andrius KUBILIUS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g e (new)

(g f) the new EU enlargement strategy should foresee effective means to unlock the EU enlargement process which currently is stalled and jeopardised and to delegate powers to the EU Chief Negotiators (e.g. Michel Barnier method) to do a practical work of negotiations in line with a broad negotiating mandate given jointly by the European Commission, the EEAS and the Council

2022/07/11
Committee: AFET