8 Amendments of Kati PIRI related to 2020/2111(INI)
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Deplores that the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated global socio-economic inequalities; highlights the particular impact of this healthcare crisis, measures taken to mitigate its impact, and concomitant decreases in global trade, tourism and remittances on vulnerable countries and populations; reiterates the call of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to examine ways to release those prisoners especially vulnerable to COVID-19, in particular political prisoners and others detained for expressing dissenting views;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Insists that only an inclusive global approach paired with intensive cross-border coordination may provide an adequate response to this and future pandemics; welcomes the Team Europe and Coronavirus Global Response support initiatives through which the EU demonstrates its commitment as a reliable partner in its neighbourhood and on the global stage; reiterates that the EU has a leading role to play in facilitating access to vaccines in an equitable manner for all people across the world;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes thewith concern that geopolitical competition and tensions have increased around the world following the COVID-19 outbreak, and; recognises that the European Union still has to position itself in the new world order in which, alongside the EU, the US, China and Russia play a leading rolevalue-based foreign policy of the European Union has a crucial role to play in defence of the multilateral rules-based global order; calls on the international community, including the US, China and Russia, to reinforce their collective commitment to multilateralism;
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that the end of the unanimity rule on foreign policy would help the EU to conduct a foreign policy that is more effective and more proactive, more proactive and better suited to respond swiftly to emergency situations in line with the Commission's geopolitical ambitions; calls on the Council to adopt qualified majority voting for all issues related to CFSP as a matter of urgency; urges the HR/VP to make the greatest possible use of the clauses in the Treaties that allow certain decisions on the common foreign and security policy to be adopted by qualified majority voting;
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for the expansion and modernisation of EU communication strategies so that EU values and action isare sufficiently visible both within and beyond the EU; underlines the need for strengthened European strategic autonomy in critical communication infrastructure networks; urges the European External Action Service (EEAS) to further strengthen its capacities to counter disinformation, including the creation of a dedicated far- East StratCom Task Force focused on the disinformation emanating from China, and imposing costs on countries that deliberately spread disinformation to divide and harm the EU and its Member States and reinforcing existing structures, including the East StratCom Task Force, and imposing costs on any state and non-state actors that deliberately spread disinformation to divide and harm the EU and its Member States; reaffirms its dedication to developing legislative and non-legislative coordinated action at EU level to counteract disinformation through its special committee on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation;
Amendment 463 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 494 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Recalls its urgent request for a strong global sanctions regime to address serious human rights violations, which would be the EU equivalent of the so- called Magnitsky Act; calls on the European Council to adopt the global EU human rights sanctions mechanism as a Decision relating to the Union’s strategic interests and objectives under Article 22(1) of the Treaty on European Union;
Amendment 549 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Notes that the global economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing grievances around the world; insists that any state of emergency must contain a termination clause and this global crisis may not serve to enhance autocratic control or set undue limitations on individual freedoms or human rights; emphasises the need for the EU to support the pro-democracy movements, in particular in its own neighbourhood, that have sprung up in the wake of the pandemic, including through the imposition of restrictive measures on state and non-state actors violating human rights and fundamental values;