Activities of Victor BOŞTINARU related to 2017/2130(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Eastern Partnership: November 2017 Summit (debate)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the EU’s eastern partners remains under threat from unresolved regional conflicts, including some that arewere initiated and are still actively sustained by the Russian Federation in contradiction with its international commitments to uphold the international legal order;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the Eastern Partnership policy is based on the sovereign right of each partner to choose the level of ambition and the goals to which it aspires in its relations with the EU, but real progress can be made only by real commitment shown by the partners;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point i
(i) to commit to working jointly on increased mobility between the EU and partner countries; to support Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine in implementing the visa liberalisation agreement and to ensure that suspension mechanisms are not triggered in the future, notably through close cooperation in the areas of police and customs to safeguard against security threats, criminality and overstays; to open visa dialogues with Armenia, to encourage progress by Azerbaijan in the implementation of Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements (VFA/RA) with a view to opening a visa dialogue in the future, and to finalise negotiations on VFA/RA with Belarus for the benefit of its citizens, should these countries make significant progress in the area of fundamental values and meet the precise conditions defined in visa liberalisation roadmaps; to make, in the case of Armenia and Azerbaijan, these objectives conditional on the solution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point n
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point n
(n) to improve both energy independence and efficiency through specific investments, strengthened cooperation in all priority areas covered by the EU Energy Union and by closer integration of the partners’ energy markets with the European energy market with a particular focus on interconnectivity and infrastructure, whilst scrutinising closely the consequences of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline; to ensure that all possible new offshore and onshore parts of pipeline infrastructure within the region, including the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, can only become a reality if they in no way undermine regional energy security and the Energy Union strategy as well as respect environmental rules and key principles enshrined in relevant EU legislation;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point p
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point p
(p) to ensure that the outcomes of the November 2017 Summit also address, where possible, the conflicts, frozen conflicts and the security threats that affect the sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and political, social and economic development of the partners and of the region as a whole;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point q
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point q
(q) to commit to sustaining the unity of action among EU Member States in maintaining collective pressure on Russia, in particular through strengthened targeted restrictive measures, to solving the conflict in Ukraine through genuine implementation of the Minsk agreements, to re-establishing Ukraine’s full sovereignty in Crimea, and that of Georgia in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and of Moldova in Transnistria, to avoiding that hostile military exercises such as the Russian-led Zapad 2017 in Belarus do not happen again in partner countries or with their participation, and to putting an end to the additional threats of state- sponsored assassinations, cyber warfare, disinformation and other types of destabilisation;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point ab
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point ab
(ab) to highlight the importance of communicating policies related to the Eastern Partnership coherently and effectively, internally as well as externally, and of providing communication activities tailored to specific regions; to address the challenge of better information about the concrete benefits and goals of the Eastern Partnership, as well as to target disinformation, in cooperation with the East StratCom Task Force, through fact- based and accessible quality information in all languages of the partner countries and ensuring full respect for the freedom of expression;