6 Amendments of Michael GAHLER related to 2015/2275(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7
Citation 7
— having regard to the documents of 14 June 2012 'Plan of Action to enhance EU CSDP support to UN peacekeeping' and of 23 March 2015 ‘Strengthening the UN- EU Strategic Partnership on Peacekeeping and Crisis Management: Priorities 2015- 2018’4 , _________________ 4 EEAS(2015)458, Council document 7632/15.
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the primary mechanism for European cooperation with the AU is the African Peace Facility, originally established in 2004 and providing some €EUR 1.9 billion through the Member State-funded EDF; whereas the 2014-2016 action programme takes account of external evaluation and consultations with Member States and introduces new elements to improve its effectiveness; whereas article 43 TEU refers to the so called Petersberg Plus tasks covering military advice and assistance tasks, conflict prevention and peace-keeping tasks, tasks of combat forces in crisis management, including peace-making and post-conflict stabilisation;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas Article 41(2) TEU prohibits expenditure from EU budgets on operations having military or defence implications while not explicitly excluding EU financing of military tasks before and after operations; whereas Articles 209 and 212 TFEU do not explicitly exclude the financing of capacity-building in the security sector;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes the UN-EU Strategic Partnership on Peacekeeping and Crisis Management and its priorities for 2015-2018 as agreed in March 2015; welcomes the past and on- going civilian and/or military CSDP missions on the African continent and their efforts in the field of peacekeeping; encourages further work by the EU in order to take account of the key role of other organisations; mainly pan-african or regional organizations; and countries and facilitate Member State contributions; calls on the EU Member States to significantly increase their military and police contributions to UN peacekeeping missions;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the increasing capacity of the AU to provide a collective response by African countries to conflict on the continent, strengthening African ownership; highlights the contribution of the African Peace Facility to the funding of the AU; underlines the need for a rapid African response to crisis, and identifies the key role in this of the African Standby Force (ASF); encourages regional organizations, like the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) or the Southern African Development Community (SADC), to increase their efforts in the area of rapid African respones to crises and to complement the efforts of the AU;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Supports the objectives ofWelcomes the Joint Communication on capacity-building, and joins the Council in calling for its urgent implementation; points out the EU’s potential particularly through civilits comprehensive approach covering civilian and military means, to help strengthen security in fragile and conflict-affected countries, while reiterating that security is a precondition for development and to address the needs ouf our partners, in particular for military recipients , while reiterating that security is a precondition for development; regrets that neither the European Commission nor the Council shared with the European Parliament their assessment on the legal options in support of capacity building; calls on both institutions to inform the European Parliament on this in due time; calls on the European Commission to suggest a legal base in line with the original European objectives of 2013 outlined in the initiative on 'Enable and Enhance';