Activities of Kazimierz Michał UJAZDOWSKI related to 2014/2249(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Possible evolutions of and adjustments to the current institutional set-up of the European Union - Improving the functioning of the European Union building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty - Budgetary capacity for the Eurozone (debate) PL
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on improving the functioning of the European Union building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty PDF (493 KB) DOC (99 KB)
Amendments (37)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 6 a (new)
Citation 6 a (new)
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas the growth potential of the Single Market should be further exploited in the areas of services, the Digital Single Market, and the Energy Union, the Banking Union and the Capital Markets Union;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital T
Recital T
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital V
Recital V
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers, also, that a new debate on reforming the EU institutions to strengthen the Member States’ influence on the EU decision-making process could be a response to the threats;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls that the European Parliament is the parliament of the whole Union; considers that its working methods should be reformed so as to strengthen its control over the Commission in the implementation of the acquis, and to ensure proper democratic accountability even in the areas in which not all Member States participate; notes that, for these purposes too, the European Parliament intends to change its Rules of Procedure so that the President of the European Commission is elected by open ballot;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Considers that, in view of the need to enhance the prestige and impartiality of office of President of the European Parliament, he or she should be elected by a 2/3 majority of votes;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Believes there is a need to create conditions for cooperation between countries inside and outside the eurozone which do not discriminate against the latter, and also to strengthen competitiveness and the internal market, reduce the regulatory burden, safeguard national sovereignty and increase the role of national parliaments;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Considers it necessary for the European Parliament to reform its working methods in order to cope with the challenges ahead, by using its control over the Commission, including in relation to the implementation and application of the acquis in the Member States, by limiting first-reading agreements to exceptional cases of urgency, and by improving its own electoral procedure through the revision of the 1976 Electoral Act in line with Parliament’s proposals contained in its resolution of 11 November 2015 on the reform of the electoral law of the European Union5 or as a future step through the adoption of implementing measures in application of Article 14 of the Electoral Act; __________________ 5 Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0395.
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Encourages meaningful political dialogue with national parliaments on the contents of legislative proposals; insists, however, on a clear delineation of the respective decision-making competences of the national parliaments and the European Parliament, where the former should exercise their European function on the basis of their national constitutions, in particular via the control of their national governments as members of the European Council and the Council, which is the level where they are best placed to directly influence the content of and exercise scrutiny over the European legislative process; is therefore against the creation of joint parliamentary decision-making bodies for reasons of transparency, accountability and ability to act, but supports the idea of creating a ‘green card’ procedure under which national parliaments will be able to submit proposals for EU laws;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses equally strongly the need to strengthen the role of national parliaments through effective use of the ‘yellow and orange card’ procedure, whereby a group of national parliaments, acting together, could block a particular legislative proposal;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Believes that a mechanism should be introduced to ensure transparency in the election of the European Commission President;
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission to organise better co-operation modalities with the Committee of the Regions (CoR) and the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) in order to be able to take their opinions into account at an earlier stage in the legislative procedure; given that local and regional authorities are impacted by approximately 70 % of EU legislation;
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Stresses the importance of the subsidiarity principle, as laid down in Article 5 TEU, which is binding on all institutions and bodies, notably the CoR and the EESC, and of the instruments contained in Protocol (No 2) on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality; supports a flexible interpretation of the deadlines enshrined in the Protocolapproach to extending the deadlines enshrined in the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality, under which national parliaments issue reasoned opinions on non-compliance with the principle of proportionality, and calls on the Commission to improve the quality of its responses to reasoned opinions;
Amendment 393 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Believes that national parliaments applying the yellow card procedure referred to in Article 7 of the Protocol on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality should be sufficient reason to stop a legislative procedure;
Amendment 395 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)
Paragraph 29 b (new)
29b. Is of the opinion that the Council of the European Union and the European Parliament should, on the basis of an inter-institutional agreement, suspend work on a draft law to which the national parliaments have issued a yellow card;
Amendment 405 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Stresses the importance of the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) as a first instrument of participatory democracy, giving citizens direct contact with EU institutions and allowing active participation in the development of EU policy and legislation; recognises, at the same time, that there are significant shortcomings which need to be addressed and resolved in order to make the ECI more effective;
Amendment 407 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)
Paragraph 30 b (new)
30b. Considers it particularly important to address the issue of a possible conflict of interests in view of the fact that the Commission itself is solely responsible for checking the legal admissibility of an initiative; stresses that the wording of Article 10(c) of Regulation 211/2011 should be revised to allow proper follow- up to a successful ECI, including a parliamentary debate in plenary followed by a vote on the ECI;
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 c (new)
Paragraph 30 c (new)
30c. Believes that the Commission should adopt the practice of preparing a legal act on successful ECIs within 12 months of their acceptance;
Amendment 490 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42a. Considers that in Alert Mechanism Reports (AMR), detailed assessments of macroeconomic imbalances and country- specific recommendations (CSR) carried out as part of the European Semester, the Commission and the Council should take into account the level of defence spending in a given Member State and advocate a defence spending ceiling of approximately 2% of the country's GDP;
Amendment 751 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 83
Paragraph 83
Amendment 761 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 84
Paragraph 84
Amendment 764 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 84 a (new)
Paragraph 84 a (new)
84a. Believes that NATO remains the foundation of Europe's security and stability; calls on Member States to coordinate their cooperation in the field of security and defence within NATO, "which, for those States which are members of it, remains the foundation of their collective defence and the forum for its implementation" as it is said in point 42.7 of TEU;
Amendment 768 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85
Paragraph 85
85. Insists on complementing the provisions for PESCO with an EU white book on security and defence on the basis of the EU global strategy for foreign and security policy currently under preparation by the VP/HR, as such a document would further define efforts by NATO withe EU’s strategic objective efforts in the field of security and defence, and identify the existing and required capabilities;
Amendment 772 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 86
Paragraph 86
86. Underlines the need to define common European capabilities and armaments policy (Article 42(3) TEU), which would encompass the joint planning, development and procurement of military capabilities and which should also include proposals to react to cyber, hybrid and asymmetrical threats; encourages the Commission to work on an ambitious European Defence Action Plan, as announced in the 2016 Work Programmeshould also include proposals to react to cyber, hybrid and asymmetrical threats;
Amendment 775 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 87
Paragraph 87
Amendment 780 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 87 a (new)
Paragraph 87 a (new)
87a. Calls on all Member States to strengthen cooperation within and with NATO, in order to revitalise the Alliance as the primary instrument for their international security and defence engagement;
Amendment 782 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88
Paragraph 88
88. Recalls the existence of Article 44 TEU, which provides additional flexibility provisions and introduces the possibility of entrusting the implementation of crisis management tasks to a group of Member States, which would carry out such tasks in the name of the EU and under the political control and strategic guidance of the Political and Security Committee (PSC) and the EEAS;
Amendment 790 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 91
Paragraph 91
91. Calls for the creation of a permanent military operational headquarters that would cooperate closely with the existing Civilian Planning and Conduct Capability (CPCC); calls for the institutionalisation of the various European military structures (among others the different ‘Battle Groups’, Euroforces, France-United Kingdom defence cooperation, Benelux air defence cooperation) into the EU framework, and for an increase in the usability of EU battlegroups, inter alia by extending common financing and by considering, by default, their deployment as an initial entry force in future crisis management scenarios; insists that chartering planes from the Russian company SALIS to provide strategic airlift for EU Battle Groups lowers chances that Battle groups will be successfully deployed to the crisis zone in the East or South; calls for chartering strategic airlift planes directly from Ukraine;
Amendment 795 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92
Paragraph 92
92. Notes that this permanent headquarters could engage in permanent contingency planning and play a major coordinating role in future applications of Article 42(7) TEUArticle 42(7) TEU obliges Member States to offer aid and assistance to another which has been the victim of armed aggression on its territory on the bilateral basis and stipulates that the commitments and cooperation of Member States in the area of security and defence "shall be consistent with commitments under the NATO, which, for those States which are members of it, remains the foundation of their collective defence and the forum for its implementation"; is of the view that the ‘mutual defence clause’, as laid down in this Article and requested by France during the Foreign Affairs Council on 17 November 2015, will constitute a catalyst for further development of the EU’s security and defence policystronger cooperation between EU and NATO, leading to stronger commitment by all Member States;
Amendment 804 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 93 a (new)
Paragraph 93 a (new)
93a. Takes the view that, because Member States’ defence expenditure is important for the security of Europe as a whole, any assessments of financial and budgetary policy (the European Semester) must take account of the scale of that expenditure in each Member State;
Amendment 830 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 96 a (new)
Paragraph 96 a (new)
96a. Takes the view that the European Union urgently needs an effective external border control instrument, which is a pre-condition for the survival of the Schengen area;
Amendment 831 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 96 b (new)
Paragraph 96 b (new)
96b. Takes the view that EU solutions can play a supporting role in national solutions, given that because the borders belong to the Member States, it is they who are responsible for controlling them; draws attention to the fact that any instruments that result in Member State sovereignty being eroded will be ineffective;