18 Amendments of Adrian SEVERIN related to 2013/2149(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 4
Citation 4
– having regard to the Commission Communications of 11 March 2003 entitled ‘'Wider Europe – Neighbourhood: A New Framework for Relations with our Eastern and Southern Neighbours’' (COM(2003)0104), of 12 May 2004 entitled ’'European Neighbourhood Policy – Strategy Paper’' (COM(2004)0373), of 4 December 2006 entitled ‘'Strengthening the European Neighbourhood Policy’' (COM(2006)0726), of 11 April 2007 entitled Black Sea Synergy - a new regional cooperation initiative (COM(2007)160), of 5 December 2007 entitled ’'A Strong European Neighbourhood Policy’' (COM(2007)0774), of 3 December 2008 entitled ‘'Eastern Partnership’' (COM(2008)0823), and of 12 May 2010 entitled ’'Taking Stock of the European Neighbourhood Policy’' (COM(2010)0207),
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas freedoms, democratic values and human rights can only develop within an appropriate environment characterised by economic and social stability, as well as national and international security, as proven by the EU history itself;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas the association and integration of neighbouring states is primarily aimed to consolidate EU security;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the association with the EU requires, apart from the internal reforms of the countries concerned, their decoupling from the previous external alliances and international networks, which demands additional costs;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the EaP should promote the humanitarian, economic, geo-political security, social and cultural dimensions of cooperation;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the achievements and ambitions of the EaP, which is the political framework for strengthening relations between the EU and the Eastern Partners, founded on mutual interests, commitments, shared ownership and joint responsibility, as well as the institutional basis for political cooperation, and a forum for dialogue between the partner countries; welcomes, in this connection, the establishment of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly and other cooperation platforms, such as the EaP Civil Society Forum and the Eastern Europe Initiatives Congress; notes however that the recent developments in some EaP countries have drawn attention to the fragility of the political process in those countries and of the inadequacy of the EaP to cope with it;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Regrets the fact that the EaP abandoned the Black Sea Synergy, instead of transforming it into a real strategy; is of the opinion that necessary steps should be taken in order to define a specific Black Sea Strategy within the EU Eastern policy;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Asks that a clear distinction is made between the criteria to be met by the candidate and associating states respectively; notes that as long as this distinction is missing, the process of association becomes unnecessarily difficult, while generating unfounded hopes to the states concerned and unnecessary fears in the EU;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Stresses that the EU values cannot flourish but within a favourable geo- strategic environment which could be secured only after the geo-strategic contest is won and the geo-strategic equilibriums are stabilized;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Recommends the signing of association agreements with Moldova and Georgia at an appropriate date to allow the present legislature to ratify said agreements;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)
Paragraph 14 b (new)
14b. Further recommends that the European Commission convenes with the Ukrainian authorities on all necessary measures (including an appropriate financial 'transition/transformation package') in order to make possible the signing of the association agreement with Ukraine during the next EU-Ukraine Summit;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 c (new)
Paragraph 14 c (new)
14c. Encourages the signing of a specific strategic partnership with Azerbaijan which reflects the particularities of that country, and which could facilitate the enhancing of its role in stabilising the South Caucasus;
Amendment 196 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 d (new)
Paragraph 14 d (new)
14d. Calls on the Council and the Commission to reset the relations with Belarus by building a structured dialogue and an enhanced cooperation based on the present political, social and economic realities of that country;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 e (new)
Paragraph 14 e (new)
14e. Calls as well for the exploration of new ways to reintegrate Armenia in a comprehensive partnership with the EU;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Calls for the establishment of a financial instrument to facilitate the decoupling of neighbouring states interested to associate with the EU from their old geo-political and geo-economic ties on a case-by-case basis; stresses the need for this instrument to also cover the costs related to possible damaging counter-measures taken by third countries in reaction to the said decoupling implied by the EU association process;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses that reform of judicial systems in the partner countries, ensuring the independence of the judiciary, should be a priority; stresses that when assisting the EaP states to develop an efficient and fair judiciary, EU must refrain from intervening in the assessment and resolution of specific cases and in the internal political controversies of those states;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Regards it as essential that a structured dialogue between the European institutions and all relevant bodies of the partner states' civil society (trade unions, SMEs, professional NGO, etc) is organized as a distinct dimension of the association negotiations, in order to ensure their effective cooperation and a popular acceptance of the association arrangements;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Emphasises the need to promote social and cultural ties, thus putting the EU motto ‘'united in diversity’' into practice; underlines that the enlargement and association processes, not only entail a unilateral transformation of acceding/associating states, but rather require the synthesis of both Eastern and Western European cultures, traditions, practices, experiences and security sensitivities; believes that the EU must therefore transform itself while asking acceding/associating countries to transform;