Activities of Ioan Mircea PAŞCU related to 2010/2299(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Main aspects of the common foreign and security policy and the common security and defence policy - Situation in Syria and in Camp Ashraf - Report: Albertini - Annual report from the Council to Parliament on the main aspects of CFSP in 2009 - Report: Gualtieri - Development of CSDP following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty - Report: Muñiz De Urquiza - The EU as a global actor: its role in multilateral organisations (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3
Citation 3
– having regard to the Foreign Affairs (Defence) Council conclusions on the CSDP adopted on 9 December 2010, and on 31 January 2011;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
- having regard to the Internal Security Strategy for the European Union, endorsed by the European Council on 25- 26 March 2010,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises that, in a turbulent global context and at a time of economic and financial crisis, the EU is being called upon to become an autonomouenhance its strategic acutornomy to uphold its values, pursue its interests, and protect its citizens by developing a shared vision of the main challenges and threats and by aligning its resources to respond to them, thereby contributing to the preservation of international peace and stability, including by pursuing effective multilateralism;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that strategic autonomy in security affairs entails, for the EU, the capacity to agree common political objectives and strategic guidelines, to establish strategic partnerships with a wide range ofrelevant international organisations and states, to collect adequate information and generate joint analyses and assessments, to harness and where necessary pool financial, military, and civilian resources, to plan and run effective crisis management operations across the entire range of the Petersberg tasks, and to frame and implement a common defence policy, laying the first tangible foundations on which to build common defence;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point a
Paragraph 5 – point a
(a) the CFSP and the CSDP, which is an integral part of the former, have been placed within the legally binding institutional framework of EU principles (democracy, the rule of law, the universality and indivisibility of human rights and fundamental freedoms, respect for human dignity, the principles of equality and solidarity, and respect for the principles of the United Nations and the cCharter and of international law), and their objectives have been merged with the general objectives of the EU'’s external action;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers the termination of the WEU Treaty and the disbandment of the WEU Assembly to be consistent with the new legal framework created by the Lisbon Treaty, and does not believe that disbandment of the Assembly will leave any form of vacuum in which the VP/HR, the Council, and the Commission could act outside of parliamentary control; declarethe enhanced role of the European Parliament in the area of CFSP/CSDP; reaffirms its willingness to enhance cooperation with EU national parliaments in exercising democratic scrutiny over the CFSP and the CSDP, with the goal of mutually reinforcing their respective influence on the political choices made by the other European institutions and by the Member States;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Notes that, in addition to being a political necessity, Permanent Structuraled Cooperation (PESCO), as provided for in the Treaty, takes the form of a legal obligation and not an option (i.e. Member States ‘shall establish’ and not ‘may establish’); calls on the Council and the Member States to remedy their failure hitherto to act in this area by determining the aims and substance of PESCO without further delay, involving the Member States on as broad a basis as possible and, not least, assessing the advisability of implementation based on variable geometry;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Believes that the role of the Defence Ministers needs to be strengthened both within the Council'’s Foreign Affairs configuration and within the EDA; maintains that the number, therefore reaffirms the value of meesettings should be higher a Defence Council withain at presentthe Foreign Affairs Council;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Recommends that serious thought be given to the true significance of the clause on mutual assistance in the event of armed aggression on the territory of a Member State, tackling the unresolved problems regarding the implementing provisions, which were removed from the draft treaty on the functioning of theas formulated in Article 42 (7) of the Treaty on European Union; calls for political guidelines to be drawn up, an imperative need which has arise not least from the recent termination of the modified Treaty of Brussels (WEU);
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – introductory part
Paragraph 37 – introductory part
37. Recognises the soundness of the Battlegroups, but calls for the concept and the structure of the groups, which have so far never been deployed, to be carefully reviewed; believes that
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – indent 1
Paragraph 37 – indent 1