Activities of Charles GOERENS related to 2021/2182(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2021 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2021 (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2021
Amendments (6)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the geopolitical impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and a quickly deteriorating security environment are posing unprecedented challenges to the Union’s common foreign and security policy; emphasises that, in the face of these challenges, the Union needs to stay resilient and improve theincrease its resilience and fundamentally evaluate and improve the effectiveness and speed of its responses to the fast-changing global environment;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes the Union’s committed relationRemains strongly committed to the Union’s partnership with NATO, which remains fundamental to EU security policy; welcomes, in this regard, the ongoing preparation of the new EU-NATO Joint Declaration, which will be presented before the end of the year; calls on the High Representative and Member States to seize the occasion to deepen the multilateral security cooperation with trusted partners and ensure the coherence with internal policies; points out meanwhile, that the EU must assume responsibility and also bolster its security policy through the relevant internal policy frameworks;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on all responsible EU decision-makers to significantly increase the EU’s geopolitical footprint; underlines the need to establish a genuine European Defence Union, which must be embedded in a bold Political Union; reiterates that a truly European political union is the condicio sine qua non of a European Defence Union; stresses that a fundamental reform of decision-making procedures, including voting requirements in the CFSP and a stronger role for the High Representative remain indispensable for a truly effective common foreign and security policy; calls on the Commission and Member States, in the meantime, to leverage all existing legal and policy instruments to bolster the EU’s role in the world; recalls that the fight for human rights and democracy should remain at the core of the CFSP; calls on the member states to respect the role of the HRVP in international negotiations; regrets in this regard that the involvement of the HRVP is often not foreseen in international negotiations; underlines that a strongly perceived role of the HRVP translates into an increased geopolitical impact of the CSDP;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for increasedon all EU decision-makers to ramp up efforts to fight foreign disinformation and information manipulation and other hybrid threats, which negatively influencundermine the Union’s ability to develop and implement effectively its internal and foreign policies; calls on all EU institutions and Member States to modernise responses against these threats, among others through a new EU hybrid toolbox which should include consistent collective countermeasures against foreign aggressors;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for theon the European Commission and Member States to enable and strengthening of parliamentary oversight of EU external action, including by continuing its regular consultations with the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the Commission; underlines that such oversight is critical for the proper functioning of European democracy and public trust; stresses that such oversight should be the starting point toward a strong institutional role for the European Parliament in the CFSP; calls for the swift conclusion of negotiations to replace the 2002 Interinstitutional Agreement on Parliament’s access to sensitive information of the Council in the field of security and defence policy;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Recalls that the Conference of the Future of Europe provides the opportunity to rethink the institutional status quo and give new impetus to European democracy; notes that a considerable amount of contributions on the Conference platform propose strengthening the EU’s role in the world; calls on the participants of the Conference to consider all possible avenues to achieve that goal, including a reform of decision-making procedures in the CFSP and the establishment of a genuine European Defence Union.