10 Amendments of Vincent PEILLON related to 2017/2276(INI)
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the EU is better equipped to deal with internal security and NATO to manage external defencecompetent for all matters relating to its security, including the establishment of a common defence, while NATO ensures the collective security of its members; whereas the EU is developing in an accelerated way to bolster its defence;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, in general, the Eastern European EU Members see Russia as a geodespite various polsitical actor and the Western members see it mainly as a commercial partner, polarizing EU commercial interests in the West and the security ones in the Eastons and attitudes towards Russia, the EU Member States have managed to date to maintain a common position in its regard;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the absence of a common threat percepoverall priority given by the United States to ‘strategic competition’ within the EU Russia and China can have an impact on relations between the EU and NATO; encourages the EU Member States therefore to find a shared understanding of the evolving threat environmentto develop a strategic culture and a common perception and categorisation of threats and welcomes recent efforts in that direction;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that the potential of EU- NATO relations has not yet been fully exploited and thatcalls for its further development and deepening of the partnership should not be limited to a common response to crises outside Europe, particularly in the neighbourhood, but also to crises on the continent;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Welcomes the re-affirmation of US commitment to NATO and European security; recalls that the EU and the United States are key international partners and that this partnership is also through NATO; underlines the value of bilateral relations between EU Member States and the US; strongly believes that strengthening EU- NATO cooperation reinforces the transatlantic bond; notstresses that the US, which generally encouraged and welcomed the substantive developments in EU defence, still needs convincing to renounce their remaining reservationsEU’s efforts to achieve strategic autonomy strengthen the security environment of the Alliance;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Considers that EU-NATO cooperation should be strengthened on the Eastern flank for the security of both organisations and thatNotes the measures taken to ‘strengthen the Alliance’s deterrence and defence posture’ in the east of the Union and welcomes the solidarity of Member States in order to counter Russian penetration in Eeastern flank countries should be countered; underlines that the current infrastructure in Europe, which is mainly West-East oriented, should be complemented by the development of a new North-South dimension, responding to the requirements for military mobility;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Reiterates that the EU initiatives aimed at strengthening European security and defence should also help ensure that those EU Member States which are NATO Allies meet their NATO commitments; stresses that EU Member States should be capable to launch autonomous military missions also where NATO is not willing to act or where EU action is more appropriate;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Strongly believes that the EU and NATO need to cooperate on strengthening their technological and industrial base; considers it important that effective transatlantic defence industrial cooperation should be a strategic priority for both organisationboth organisations look into developing effective transatlantic cooperation in the defence industries; supports the measures envisaged under the European Defence Fund (EDF) to support joint research and development of European capabilities;
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Reiterates its viewConsiders that the ‘Berlin Pplus’ arrangements should be adapted to the current strategic context and enable NATOwill have to be adjusted, in practice, to mtake use of EU instruments, including civilian tools where appropriateaccount of Brexit;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Considers that the next EU-NATO Joint Declaration, to be adopted at the upcoming NATO summit in July 2018, should initiate the process of reviewing the ‘Berlin Plus’ arrangements; considers in this context that capabilities developed under PESCO should be available for NATO operations and that PESCO projects shcould be opened to non-EU members of NATO, such as Norway and, in view of Brexit, the UK; stresses that the review of ‘Berlin Plus’ should provide the framework of cooperation not only for crisis management but also for ensuring security together on the continent;