9 Amendments of Vincent PEILLON related to 2015/2272(INI)
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the threats identified in the 2003 European Security Strategy – terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, regional conflicts, state failure and organised crime – remain for the most part relevant; whereas today the EU is faced with a number of additional, serious and unprecedented challenges, such as the attempts by revisionist powers to redraw borders by force and challenge rules-based global order, climate change, major migratory flows, and cyber and hybrid warfare and threats;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph - 1 a (new)
Paragraph - 1 a (new)
-1a. Welcomes the June 2015 report by the VP/HR on ‘The European Union in a changing global environment – a more connected, contested and complex world’; believes that this report provides a clear view of the challenges facing the EU and constitutes an appropriate basis on which to draw up a European strategy;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Believes that to deal with a changing global environment, the EU strategy should be based on: a. identifying and prioritising the threats and challenges; b. defining the responses thereto; c. determining the necessary resources.
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. NPoints out that EU Member States make up NATO's eastern flank; 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. Ccalls 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, either within NATO or in full complementarity with NATOit;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that a principal objective should be to move towards voluntary joint defence forces and the 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 Headline Goal from 1999 as part of the strategy to be presented in June 2016;
Amendment 173 #
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 which complement NATO in territorial defence and; points out that the EU battlegroups, which have never been used, are able to conduct intervention operations autonomously beyond the EU’s borders;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is of the opinion that in order to build stability and peace, the EU should keep up its enlargement commitmenprospects and continue cooperation with very closely associated countries within the context of the newly revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP); recalls that according to Article 49 TEU any European state may apply to become a member of the European Union, provided it adheres to the Copenhagen criteria and the principles of democracy and respect for fundamental freedoms and human and minority rights, and ensures the rule of law;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Believes that the EU should be a constructive and resilient global actor with ahich gives priority to regional focuchallenges and aspire to be a ‘rule- maker’, establishing efficient multilateral global governance;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the EU institutions and Member States to pursue the comprehensive / joined-up / integral approach in their external action and to take account of the inextricable link between internal and external security; in this regards, calls on the EU to focus more on buildingdevelop synergies between security, development, trade and EU external action and to make these policies part of its global strategy;