Activities of Ana GOMES related to 2014/2219(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Annual report from the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to the European Parliament (debate) PT
Amendments (21)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points to the dramatically aggravated security environment around the EU, especially in its immediate neighbourhood, where the international law-based order and stability and security of Europe are challenged to a degree unprecedented since the beginning of European integration; points to the ongoing transformation of the global political order;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is concerned that the EU has so far not been able to use its full potential to shape its political and security environment, and that a lack of policy coordination and coherence between EU policies, and financial limitations, namely in EU Member States' defence and security budgets, pose additional restraints on Europe’'s influence in the world in the promotion of peace, democracy and human rights, and also hampers its capacity to be a global security provider, contributing to conflict prevention and crisis management;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 – indent 1
Paragraph 3 – indent 1
– protecting European values and its strategic interests, and enforcing the political and legal order in Europe, thereby safeguarding peace and stability,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 – indent 2
Paragraph 3 – indent 2
– improving the EU’'s contribution to territorial defence and the security of its citizens and its critical infrastructures,
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 – indent 3
Paragraph 3 – indent 3
– supporting security, stabildemocratisation and, the rule of law and economic and social development in the EU’'s southern neighbourhood,
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 – indent 4
Paragraph 3 – indent 4
– strengthening, together with partners, the rules-based, pluralistic global political and economic order, including the protection ofrespect for the rule of law and human rights, and
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that an effective EU foreign policy needs to be based on a shared vision of key European interests, values and objectives in external relations and on a common perception of the threats affecting the EU as a whole; welcomes the commitment of the HR/VP, on the basis of the mandate from the European Council of December 2013, to initiate as a matter of priority a process of strategic reflection on the EU’'s foreign and security policy, which should involve a wide range of stakeholders, including Member States, European institutions, academia, the media and the European public; insists that this reflection should lead to a new European Security Strategy;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Insists that the political, economic, financial and defence resources of the EU and its Member States must be combined to maximise the EU’'s influence in the world, produce synergies and ensure peace and stability in Europe and in its neighbourhood;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that the external financial assistance deployed by the EU and its Member States needs to be refocused in line with the jointly agreed strategic priorities; calls for more measures to be taken by the EU in order to increase the visibility and effectiveness of EU assistance; is of the view that all areas of EU assistance, be it development aid, emergency and humanitarian aid, should be coordinated and commitments and projects be consistent across the foreign policy spectrum;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the EU and the Member States to contribute positively and in a coordinated manner to the conception of the Post-2015 Development Agenda, to be launched in a Special Summit on Sustainable Development in September 2015, fully addressing the successes and the shortcomings of the Millennium Development Goals campaign and doing its utmost to found a global partnership for development that can truly eradicate poverty, promote sustainable development, health, education, fight against climate change and protect the environment for future generations;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – indent 1
Paragraph 9 – indent 1
– internal and external policies pursued by the EU, including the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) and policies on neighbourhood, trade, development, humanitarian aid, justice and home affairs, energy, environment, migration, etc.,
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls for the urgent merging of all EU Situation Rooms and Crisis Centres in one single Situation Centre serving all EU institutions and Member States; stresses that that Situation Centre must be adequately resourced to produce autonomous human intelligence analysis to share with Member States, in light of the terrorist and other threats to EU security;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Underlines the important role of security defence cooperation between the EU and partners such as the UN, NATO, AU and OSCE; stresses the vital importance of collective defence guaranteed by NATO for its members; urges the Member States, as a matter of urgency, to step up their ability to contribute to territorial defence, commit more resources and cooperate more closely to build synergiesfoster human intelligence capabilities and share intelligence to counter terrorism, commit more resources and cooperate more closely to build synergies and to pool and share resources (human, equipment, etc), in the context of the CSDP and the objectives set forth in December 2013 Council conclusions for the development of the CSDP, which aim at a certain level of EU strategic autonomy in the field of defence; stresses that all the Member States must enjoy the same level of security, in line with Article 42(7) TEU; stresses that a credible EU foreign policy needs to be underpinned by adequate defence capabilities in the Member States and an effective Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP); takes the view that the CSDP is an important component of European defence and can contribute to it in many ways, including by fostering defence cooperation, enhancing interoperability and increasing efficiency; welcomes the HR/VP’'s commitment to actively engage on defence matters, including by chairing meetings of the Foreign Affairs Council in the Defence Ministers configuration;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 4
Paragraph 16 – indent 4
– further increasing common financing in the field of military CSDP operations through the Athena mechanism, so as to prevent financial considerations from compromising the EU’'s ability to respond to crises and to encourage Member States to speedily generate forces for necessary CSDP operations and ensure fairer burden-sharing among member states;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 – indent 7
Paragraph 16 – indent 7
– increasing the EU Battlegroups’' effectiveness and usability, inter alia by introducing a modular approach and extending common financing through the Athena mechanism; be ready to deploy the Battlegroups in incoming crisis management scenarios, whenever appropriate;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Reasserts the need for a reform of the United Nations Security Council, for it to better reflect today´s global realities and reclaims a EU seat in a reconfigured Council; urges the HR/VP to make this a priority and to kick off a European-wide debate on the reform of the UNSC and how the EU can take the opportunity to secure a European seat; calls on France and the United Kingdom, as EU member states who hold permanent seats in the UNSC to make sure that they do represent the EU in UNSC deliberations and that their positions are properly coordinated with the HR/VP, so as to ensure EU credibility and influence in matters of global peace and security;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Takes the view that additional EU support should be granted to partner governments which are committed to and make tangible progress towards democratisation, such as Tunisia, Jordan and Morocco;
Amendment 359 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Urges the EU leadership to develop, in close coordination with the US and involving major powers (e.g. Russia and China), a strategy encouraging regional actors (including Turkey, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Gulf Cooperation Council governments, Iran, the Arab League and Kurdish forces) to unite in order to put an end to proxy wars and halt financial support to fundamentalists, and to develop a solution for peace and stability in the region; reminds that the stability and the prosperity of the region requires that priority be given to putting an end to the Syrian war and the military defeat and eradication of the ISIS/Daesh threat from Iraq and Syria; supports the engagement of all parties involved in the Middle East peace process in finding a comprehensive, constructive and sustainable solution to the Middle East conflictIsraeli-Palestinian conflict, based on a two-state solution; emphasises the need to preserve the territorial integrity and national unity of Libya and supports EU engagement should the Security Council consider it inevitable that an international intervention is needed to end the violence; calls on the HR/VP to promote a review of the mandate of EUBAM Libya so as to, firstly, conform to a UNSC-mandated operation and, secondly, to respond to the pressing SSR and DDR needs to stabilise and pacify the country and help bring about a political settlement; urges the HR/VP to provide impetus for a stronger engagement of regional actors on mediation and conflict resolution;
Amendment 377 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Takes the view that the criminal activities and barbaric violence by terrorist jihadists engaged in and associated with the so-called Islamic State (IS) represent a major threat to the wider Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and potentially to global peace and stability; supports the global coalition against IS and its efforts to combat IS militarily, and welcomes the contributions of EU Member States in this context; urges the stepping-up of resolute global regulatory pressure to deprive jihadists of oil revenues and to apply strict global sanctions against financial transactions in their favour; points to the urgent need to systematically disable jihadists from using the internet for propaganda; insist on the need to step up international cooperation, as well as intra- EU cooperation focused on preventing extremists from traveling to Syria and Iraq to join the jihadist fight, including investment in national radicalisation prevention and de-radicalisation programmes in member states; calls on Member States to enact ways to bring those returning European fighters to justice, within the remit of their domestic criminal law systems; warns Member States against adopting any legislation aimed at tackling the return of those so- called foreign fighters that may be in contradiction with the European Convention on Human Rights or any other provision of International Human Rights Law; stresses that the fight against extremism and terrorism can only be effective if it happens within international legal standards, namely International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law;
Amendment 385 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35a. Calls on the EU and its Members States to review all economic policies that may have fostered social disintegration and heightened marginalisation, particularly among migrant communities in Europe;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 – point a (new)
Paragraph 38 – point a (new)
(a) Stresses that the peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific Region, in the areas of the East and South China Sea in particular, is of strategic importance to the EU; urges all parties concerned in the region to solve differences in a peaceful way, in line with international law, and to cooperate with each other to exploit natural and marine resources; takes the view that the EU has a substantial interest in East Asia's continued growth and prosperity; underlines the need to strengthen the EU's economic partnership with Asia-Pacific countries in an inclusive manner so as to maintain sustainable peace, stability and prosperity; welcomes the encouraging improvements in cross- Strait relations over the past six years and calls upon to take further measures to facilitate their peaceful development; urges the HR/VP and the Council to continue its cooperation with all stakeholders in the region, on a broad range of global issues.