3 Amendments of Jean-Lin LACAPELLE related to 2023/2134(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Notes the key role of the EEAS and especially of its Delegations in the context of the geopolitical impact of the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the resulting need to support partner countries around the world and strengthen global alliances; highlights the importance of continued strong political engagement and leverage at bilateral level, as well as in public and cultural diplomacy to promote the Union's values, principles and interests, and in strategic communications to combat disinformation; calls for more efficient use of available resources to beDeplores the fact that the EEAS contravenes the sovereignty of the Member States, which must be free to conduct their own diplomacy; recalls that the European Union should not instroduced to avoid putting the Union’s effectiveness at risk on the international scene; sees the need for EU delegations to continue their coordinated efforts to increase the visibility of EU-funded projects in order for resources to be used to the fullest extent possibleumentalise the current geopolitical context to assume new powers;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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2. NotBelieves that in 2022 40% of the appointed Heads of Delegations were women; calls on the EEAS to lead by example, as set out in the Gender Action Plan III, and to continue to improve the representation of women and marginalised groups across all levels with the goal to establish gender parity in all leadership and management positions, gender-responsive leadership and gender- sensitive recruitment processes as soon asdeological considerations have no place in the staff recruitment and management policy of the EEAS; considers it inappropriate to take the gender dimension into account in recruitment to leadership and management positions, given the sensitive nature of these possible; regrets the slow pace at which the EEAS staff is moving towards balance as regards diversity, gender and geography imbalances and notes that all cations, for which competence and integories of staff should be included and calls on all Member States to nominate more women and candidates from marginalised groups to seconded positions in the EEASty must be the primary considerations;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
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5. Welcomes the strengthening of the EU delegations’ engagement in our neighbourhood and in the Western Balkan countries in order to support a more active and effective communication policy on the European perspective and to be prepared to provide the best possible assistance to the countries engaged in pro-democratic and pro-European reformPoints out that the EU delegations replicate and tend to replace Member States’ diplomacy and are therefore detrimental to the sovereignty of the Member States;