16 Amendments of Angelika BEER related to 2008/2197(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EU and NATO are founded on shared values such as freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law, and throughout their existence have well served the cause of peaceo avoid wars on European territory,
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas NATO is an intergovernmental organisation of democratic nations, in which civilians decide and the military executesmilitary alliance of western industrialised democratic nations, heavily dominated by the USA, not directly subordinated to parliamentary control and with an overemphasis on the military dimension of security,
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas EU and NATO cooperation that falls under the framework of the "Berlin plus arrangement" has not been working satisfactorily up until now, as demonstrated in the case of Bosnia, from NATO SFOR to EUFOR Altheabecause of unsolved problems connected with the fact that some countries are members of NATO but not of the EU,
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas our collective defence is based on a combination of conventional and tactical as well as strategic nuclear forces adapted over the years to correspond to a rapidly changing environment; whereas the ultimate guarantor of military security for the Allies is the, regrettably, the tactical and strategic nuclear forces of the Alliance, and its member states, which may even be used on a "first-strike" basis in the event of an emergency, which constitutes a violation of the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice of 8 July 1996 on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
- 1. Underlines that the deployment and use of nuclear weapons (as well as the threat to use them), both tactical and strategic, should no longer be part of any security strategy or doctrine concerning Europe; stresses, therefore, that all members of NATO and of the EU should actively work for the establishment of a global convention for the elimination of nuclear weapons and for Europe to become a nuclear weapon-free zone;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that the raison d'être of the European Union is to build peace; notes that an ineffective security strategy or security policy, as well as the overemphasis on the military dimension of security, leads to unnecessary human suffering;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Despite the current signals of a return to juxtaposition in EU-Russia-US relations, emphasises its view that such a development is not desirable; is convinced that democratic freedoms are the answer to aspirations for people around the world; believes that no country or nation should be excluded from such a vision, because every human being has the right to live in a democracywelcomes the recent appeal by the French President for a new security-agreement between the EU and Russia, independent of NATO and the USA;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the updating of the ESS as part of the European Union’s commitment to defining and protecting European security interests and thus making it possible to create a strategy for tackling the threats of the 21st century; notes that this strategy can only be fully implemented through a revived EU-NATO cooperation consensus, based on a common approach to security policies, as well as renewed and common security consensus between the EU and the United States of the America, reflecting the common values and goals of these two democracies; recognises that, after eight years of the Bush administration, this will not be easily realised;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Insists that all democracies should be united in their efforts to build stability and peace, and thus join with all intergovernmental organisations in promoting these goals; regrets profoundly that the doctrine of non-alignment, inherited from the Cold War era, undermines the alliance of democracies to the benefit of undemocratic and not yet truly democratic powers; regrets that, in the name of a doctrine of non-alignment, certain Member States opted out of the joint responsibility provided for by the solidarity clause contained in the Treaty of Lisbon at global level within the United Nations and at regional level within the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE);
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recognises the fundamental role of NATO, in the past as well as todayNotes the survival of NATO, after the end of the Cold War, in the security architecture of the Europe; notes that for the majority of EU Member States, which are also NATO allies, the Alliance remains the foundation of their collective defence; therefore takes the view that the only meaningful way to organise the future collective defence of the EU is within the Alliancerecognises the need for a critical fundamental debate about the continuation of NATO in a globalised world where the nature of security problems and their solutions has changed dramatically and where the narrow military security of States needs to be replaced by the all-embracing principles of human security for all citizens of this planet;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Notes that EU citizens support missions aimed at alleviating human suffering in conflict zones; notes that citizens are insufficiently informed about EU and NATO missions and their purpose; therefore calls on the EU and NATO to better inform people of their missionscalls for more open and public debates about missions; is of the opinion that transparency is essential for the purposes of garnering public support; believes that the best way of achieving this is the exercise of parliamentary scrutiny; urges, therefore, that parliamentary scrutiny be exercised in all nation states as well as in the European Parliament;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Is of the view that, in addition to the need for more efficient use of military resources, the need forit must be recognised that more investment in military defence at Member State level is essential in order to support the efforts to build effective EU-NATO cooperation and action; notesout of the question in the light of the current financial crisis and other vital problems to be solved at planetary level such as climate change and desperate poverty in many parts of the world; calls instead for much greater emphasis to be placed on harmonisation; finds it unacceptable that the United States called on European NATO members during the NATO Bucharest Summit to increase their defence investments so as to support both NATO and EU operations; notes also the significant difference in numbers, as well as in effectiveness of defence spending, between European members of NATO and the U.S.; calls on the EU to commit itself to fairer global burden-sharingis nevertheless fully aware that the absurd level of military expenditure of the United States is part and parcel of many problems that threaten the survival of our planet;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Notes that it is essential for the future of EU-NATO cooperation that member states having a different and sometimes divergent tradition as to their views of that relationship should find a common ground and adopt a common visshould be fully respected in their adherence to those traditions and views, even if this does not suit the foreign-policy interests of the United States of America and its allies; recognises that those EU Member States which regard themselves as ‘neutral’ or 'non-aligned’ have an enormous positive reputation forin the futureield of UN peacekeeping and civil conflict management;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. WelcomNotes the fact that, at the NATO summit held in Bucharest, the Allies recognised the value that a stronger and more capable European defence brings, and that the Alliance reconfirmed its commitment to continue enlargement; regretunderlines that at, in the same summit the Allies postponed the NATO Membership Action Plan for Georgia and Ukraine, when instead continued support should be givenfuture, no country should become a member of NATO if it cannot in parallel become a member of the EU; underlines that no nation can be part of the EU and NATO if it does not live up to theEU democratisation process of Ukraine in the spirit of the Orange Revolution; notes that for many European Neighbourhood Policy countries, and with a view to their democratic development, the open-door policy which stems from the very foundingc standards and/or engages in irresponsible foreign-policy activities which endanger Europe 's security as a whole; regards it as self- evident that all border issues must be resolved before any country affected thereby is permitted to join one of the organisations and that all candidate states, as well as member states, must act in accordance with the principles of the EU is of the utmost importancegood neighbourliness;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Is of the view that NATO's forthcoming 60th anniversary Summit in Strasbourg and Kehl wshould offer an excellent opportunity to organise the first ever EU-NATO Summnot be used for uncritical celebration of the Western military alliance but instead would offer the opportunity to be held with a view to revising the nature of the partnership and strengthening its cooperationconsider whether European security would not be better served by winding it up without further ado;