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5 Amendments of Timothy Charles Ayrton TANNOCK related to 2015/2272(INI)

Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas a swift and efficient response to threats on the part of the EU requires that interinstitutional barriers be overcome and silo mentalities broken down;deleted
2016/02/25
Committee: AFET
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the primaryone of the objectives of the EU must beis to guarantee the security of its citizens and of its territory while safeguarding its values and societal model and pursuing its fundamental interests. The EU must therefore ensure both its internal and its external resilience, its capacity to anticipate, pre-empt and resolve predictable threats and to be prepared to take swift action on unpredictable threats, and its capacity to recover from various types of attack, as well as safeguarding security of supply of energy and raw materials;
2016/02/25
Committee: AFET
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that in future the EU and its Members States will have to rely less on the United States and take greater responsibility for their own security and territorial defence. Calls on the EU and the Member States, therefore, to improve their strategic autonomy regarding defence capabilities and capacities, in order to be prepared to respond to the broad spectrum of civilian and military threats and risks, in full complementarity with NATO and in compliance with Article 42.2 of the TEU;
2016/02/25
Committee: AFET
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the EU in consequence to enhance coherent and structured cooperation on defence research, the industrial base and cyber defence through pooling and sharing, in order to use defence budgets more efficiently. The European Defence Agency’s role needs to be strengthened and its resources increased to enable it to act more effectively. Member States should take more responsibility for building European capabilities and increase their military research expenditure through the EDA. Furthermore, a true European intelligence and forecasting capacity needs to be developed;
2016/02/25
Committee: AFET
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Notes the vital importance of strengthening EU-NATO cooperation, and supports the establishment of European forces which complement NATO in territorial defence and are able to conduct intervention operations autonomously beyond the EU’s borders;deleted
2016/02/25
Committee: AFET