17 Amendments of Nirj DEVA related to 2010/2299(INI)
Amendment 18 #
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 of 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, and 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 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point b
Paragraph 5 – point b
(b) when conducting foreign and security policy, not least under the CSDP, the EU must ensure consistency and coherence between the different areas of its external action and between these and other policies;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that the duty of consistency as defined by the Treaty, the new wording of Article 40 TEU (which states that the implementation of both the CFSP and the other EU policies shall not affect the application of the respective procedures), and recent ECJ case law (see the SALW case) protect both the primacy of the Community method and the distinguishing features and prerogatives of the CFSP, while encouraging the convergence of different policies, instruments, resources, and legal bases in a holistic, comprehensive approach, whereby security becomes a cross-cutting objective of EU external and internal action and the CSDP is one of its instruments; in this context, notes that civilian and military assets can be also deployed in situations other than CSDP missions, as has been shown in practice by the EU Military Staffthe event of natural and man-made disasters, as previously seen in the coordination of military capabilities during the Pakistan floods in summer 2010;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is convinced that a credible external security policy requires deepened interdependencecoordination between the Member States and improved internal cohesion and mutual trust and solidarity, similar to what has been achieved in the internal security sphere through Schengen cooperation (whereby Schengen countries, by protecting their own borders, protect the borders of the other Member States, national rules acquire continental scope, and tasks related to the protection of national security can also be performed on the territory of another state or in joint teams operating in accordance with European standards);
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the European Council and its President to set about this task by engaging in political dialogue with the European Parliament and to discuss Parliament's recommendations; maintains that such a dialogue is required in the light of the new Treaty provisions and of the need to lay down and implement the foreign policy strategy, proceeding from an effective comprehensive approach; suggests that such a dialogue needs to take place on a regular basis, and to focus on progress achieved as much as on prospects;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Points out that the powers and responsibilities of the High Representative do not just constitute ‘double hatting’, but also amount to merging of functions and legal bases, making her central to the process of bringing the various instruments, actors, and procedures of EU external action into a coherent relationship; calls on the High Representative to interpret her role as one that is constantly evolving and requires her, while carrying on a constructive dialogue with Parliament, to commit herself to the twofold effort of actively fostering a political consensus among the Member States on the strategic directions and policy options for the CFSP and the CSDP, and of bringing coherence to, effectively coordinating, and fully exploiting the potential for the CFSP- CSDP to act synergistically with the other sectors of EU external action and with EU internal policies having an impact and implications at the external level;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Reiterates its view that the civilian and military crisis management structures and capabilities should be coordinated more closely and act more synergistically within the comprehensive approach, without altering the distinctions between civilian and military roles and the different decision-making procedures and chains of command; points out that missions must be conducted with a view to the humanitarian context as well as long term development, which by definition implies coherence with the respective humanitarian framework and development strategy;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 20 – point a a (new)
(a a) calls for the expansion and adequate resourcing of the Peacebuilding, Conflict Prevention and Mediation Unit, with an emphasis on local knowledge expertise necessary for designing missions tailored on an understanding of the root causes of conflict, keeping in mind that a successful response to crisis consists of longer term peacebuilding alongside the immediate measures;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Notes with anxiety that the current economic austerity could lead to cuts that were not concerted at European level and to continuing overlapping that might call the CSDP as such into question, whereas the end effect should be to push the Member States towards smarter defence spending whereby they would pool and share a larger proportion of their defence capabilities, budget, and requirements while achieving more security for their citizens;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Notes that, in addition to being a political necessity, the Permanent Structural 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 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Welcomes the fact that, in her reply to the Weimar initiative, the HR recognised the need for an EU military conduct capability; maintains that the cost efficiency analysis called for by the HR should also factor in the costs arfuture decision of establishing because the EU has no OHQ; declares itsa new structure to act as OHQ or instention of promoting a studyad making use onf that point and on the possible cost of, and financing arrangements for, the new structuree already existing structure and numerous adjacent units;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Urges the participating Member States to treat participation in the EDA as a permanent commitment and provide the Agency with the necessary human and economic resources; calls for the expenditure earmarked for operational projects and studies (which has hitherto accounted – on average – for about 25% of the budget) to be raised in the unwelcome event that vetoes on budget increases were to continue for a lengthy period;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 – indent 1
Paragraph 48 – indent 1
– expansion of the CSDP to include wideradequate internal and external coordination and coherence of the Petersberg-type missions that could contribute to counterterrorism, not least through support to help third countries fight terrorism on their territory; recommends that these provisions be interpreted in sweeping terms;
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. Calls on those Member States which have seats on the UN Security Council to defend the positions and interests of the EU and to ask the HR/VP to speak for the EU in that forum, in accordance with the Lisbon Treaty;