15 Amendments of Michael GAHLER related to 2015/2272(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
– having regard to the conclusions of the European Council meetings as of 19 and 20 December 2013 (EUCO 217/13) and as of 25 and 26 June 2015 (EUCO 22/15) as well as the Council conclusions on CSDP as of 18 May 2015 (8971/15),
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
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Citation 6 a (new)
– having regard to Council decision (CFSP) 2015/1835 of 12 October 2015 defining the statute, seat and operational rules of the European Defence Agency,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
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Citation 8
– having regard to its resolution of 21 May 2015 on the implementation of the Common Security and Defence Policy (based on the Annual Report from the Council to the European Parliament on the Common Foreign and Security Policy)1 , __________________ 1; having regard to its resolution of 21 January 2016 on the mutual defence clause (Article 42(7) TEU) (2015/3034(RSP)), __________________ 1 Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0213. Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0213.
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
– Defend the European Union and its states, societies and values
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the primary objective of the EU must be to guarantee the security of its citizens and of its territory while safeguarding its values and societal model and pursuing its fundamental interests. The EU must therefores well as defining and pursuing the European interests; calls therefore on the EU institutions to ensure both its internal and its external resilience, itcalls on the VP/HR to increase EU's capacity to anticipate, prevent, pre-empt and resolve predictable risks and threats and to be prepared to takesuggest swift action on unpredictable threats, and its capacity to recover from various types of attack, as well as safeguarding security of supply of energy and raw materials;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that in future the EU and its Members States will have to rely less on the United States and take greater responsibility for their own security and territorial defence. C especially in Europe's neighbourhood; calls on the EU and the Member States, therefore, to improve their strategic autonomy regarding defence capabilities and capacities, in order to be prepared to respond to the broad spectrum of civilian and military threats and risks, in full complementarity with NATO; calls on the Commission to clarify in their announced EU Defence Action Plan ( COM(2015) 610 final) how envisaged EU actions will answer to the US third offset strategy and the US Defence Innovation Initiative;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. UrgNotes the EU in consequence to enhance coherent and structured cooperation on defence research, the industrial base and cyber defence through pooling and sharing, in order to use defence budgets more efficiently. The European Defence Agency’s role needs to be strengthened and its resources inccomplementing roles of the European Commission, the Member States, and the European Defence Agency (EDA) in the field of the European Defence Technological and Industrial Base (EDTIB) and the European Defence Market (EDM); welcomes in this regard the ambitious and re-confirmed commitments of the stake-holders preased to enable it to act more effectively. Member States should take more responsibility for building European capabilities and increase their military research expenditure through the EDA.nt during the European Councils in 2013 and 2015; urges the Member States to initiate immediately new future cooperative procurement programmes leading to urgently needed new capabilities and contributing to EU's strategic autonomy and defence industrial competitiveness; Furthermore, a true European intelligence and forecasting capacity needs to be developed;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls the commitment of the Member States to achieve the collective target of 2 % of our defence spending on research funding and calls on them to live up to these ambitions; repeats its commitment for a EU funded future defence research and technology programme in the next multiannual financial framework (2021-2027); welcomes the signature of the delegation agreement between the European Commission and EDA setting up a pilot project on CSDP defence research as initiated by the European Parliament in the budget 2015; encourages the European Commission and EDA to improve their cooperation and the stake holder participation regarding setting up a preparatory action on defence research; welcomes the report of the Group of personalities on the preparatory action for CSDP-related research on 'European Defence Research'; invites the VP/HR and the Commission to present the European Parliament their plans on the future defence research and technology programme and to engage with Parliamentarians in an open debate;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Strongly criticises the Commission for not fulfilling in time its taskings of the European Council 2013 regarding an announced roadmap for a comprehensive EU-wide security-of-supply regime, an announced green paper on the control of defence and sensitive security industrial capabilities, monitoring defence and security procurement as well as 'government-to-government sales' in the defence sector;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Notes the Council decision (CFSP) 2015/1835 of 12 October; calls on the head of the Agency and VP/HR to inform the European Parliament how this Council decision reflects the Parliament's repeated view strengthening EDA by financing the Agency's staffing and running costs from the Union budget; strongly criticises the government of the United Kingdom of blocking an increase of EDA's operational budget in the fifth consecutive year risking to undermine the current and future tasks of the EDA;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that a principal objective should be to move towards voluntary joint defence forces and theReminds that given the increasing security challenges and threats as well as reluctance on the part of Member States to work in concert to counter them, it is paramount to activate the relevant Treaty provisions, in particular the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO); calls on the VP/HR to deliver realistic options for the successful launch of PESCO as a means for EU financing of military peacetime cooperation; encourages the Member States and the VP/HR to establish PESCO as the first step of framing of a common defence policy which will ultimately lead to a common defence. Supports, therefore, the drafting of a White paper on EU Defence, thereby updating the Helsinki H; repeats its call on the Member States and the VP/HR for starting a process leading to a EU White Book on Security and Defence in continuation of the EU global strategy on foreign and security policy with the full participation of the European Parliament in order to streadmline Goal from 1999the EU's strategic ambitions and capability development processes;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes the vital importance of strengthening EU-NATO cooperation, and supports the establishment of European forces whichsuggests to combine the concepts of EU Battle Groups and NATO Response Forces in order to increase their compatibility while keeping operational autonomy in both formats; asks the VP/HR and the Council to inform the Parliament in which forms the EU Battle Groups and the European Rapid Reaction Force can contribute complementing NATO in territorial defence and are able to conduct intervention operations autonomously beyond the EU’s bordersbased on the mutual defence clause (Article 42(7) TEU); asks the VP/HR to provide information on the results of the follow- up of NATO's General-Secretary visit to the European Parliament on 30 March 2015 and his identified fields of EU- NATO cooperation by 'building resilience together', 'by building resilience together with our neighbours' and 'in the area of defence investment';
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Believes that the EU should be a constructive and resilient global actor with a regional focus and aspire to be a ‘'rule- maker’', establishing efficient multilateral global governance; calls on the VP/HR to provide before the presentation of the new global strategy a thorough assessment of the results of the implementation of the European Security Strategy (2003) in view of the past priorities of being 'more active', 'more capable', 'more coherent', and 'working with partners';
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Emphasises the importance of actively involving national parliaments in the process by means of more thorough joint scrutiny with the European Parliament during the sessions of the Inter- Parliamentary Conference CFSP/CSDP;
Amendment 390 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Strongly urges European policy-makers to engage with citizens and, civil society and industry on the necessity and benefits of providing a stronger framework for Europe’s security.