16 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2010/2298(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 indent -1 (new)
Paragraph 3 indent -1 (new)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the processes of globalisation reveal alarming systemic failures such as in financial markets and climate change policy; whereas global threats and challenges require worldwide cooperation and collective action to tackle them as well as effective institutionsuniversally recognised and legitimate rules; recalling that if international organisations are to be legitimate and effective, they will have to reflect today'scan only be politically effective in the long term if they reflect the legitimate interests of all States in the multipolar world,
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 indent 1
Paragraph 3 indent 1
- maintain the principle of consensus in WTO decision-making but also explore alternative solutions;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for thorough consideration of the issue of better accommodating non-trade concerns within the scope of WTO rules, in order to allow members to pursue legitimate policy objectives, while safeguarding market access; in this context, stresses the need to ensure the consistency of trade policy with other EU policies and international law, and that WTO actions are consistent and mutually supportive with actions of other international organisations.;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the Commission to provide its trade negotiators, Council and the European Parliament with a register of UN treaties and conventions signed by EU Member States, in order to make transparent the current acquis communitaire with regard to binding international obligations and international law; encourages the Commission to set up a dedicated unit to observe the consistency of trade agreement negotiations with other existing binding international obligations such as those established by the Universal Declaration on Human Rights;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Identifies the implementing powers of the WTO created through its dispute settlement body, as key element of the success of this organisation and thus calls on the EU to explore the creation of comparable mechanisms in other multilateral organisations; nevertheless calls on the EU to strive for a reform of the WTO’s dispute settlement body in order to develop it into an international court able to balance public interests and commercial interest based on international law and fulfilling high standards of transparency;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls on the EU to strengthen both the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and other likeminded organisations;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Treaty of Lisbon provides the EU with a clearer and stronger voice in the world and encourages all types of mutually beneficial EU cooperation with relevant international and regional organisations and groups of countries, and whereas it enables the Union to organise itself in such a way as to be able to become an effective global player,
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the EU and NATO's common objective of achieving a ‘strategic partnership’ should allow for greater maximisacan make an independent contribution to preventing international crisis situations and finding a non-military solution tof the assets of both organisations and ensure effective cooperation; whereas the EU and NATO should ensure efficient crisis management in order to identify the best possible response to a crisim, and to do so should cooperate with all interested parties on the basis of international law, while paying particular attention to the new challenges involved in achieving the millennium development goals,
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the current dramatic demographic changes will have consequences for multilateralism, as new realitiesnew realities of a multipolar world will create pressure to adapt membership, seats and voting rights in multilateral organisations accordingly; whereas the EU should demand a commitment from the quire an open debate with equal participation of all parties and countries concerned to come to a mutual agreement to adapt memberging economies to constructive behaviour in the multilateral system in exchange for rebalancing the representation, which will inevitably hit EU countries the hardestship, seats and voting rights in multilateral organisations; whereas the EU's participation in emerging structures for global governancea renewed global cooperation and the negotiation of new rules and principles will require compromises with those countries and new actors pushing for their voices to be heard on the international scene,
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the EU's mechanisms for building consensus and taking concerted action make it a role model for acan actively encourage rule- based global world order and therefore stresses the need to champion an international environment that will enable the EU to promote its agenda;cooperation, which should actively tackle the common challenges of overcoming international crises, peacemaking and disarmament, combating poverty and underdevelopment, and climate change, considers essential, with regard to the EU's aspiration to be a global actor and to safeguard its position, the ability to shape multilateral cooperation or leadplay an active and positive role in collective action in addressing international challenges;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the Union – by enhancing cooperation, improving institutions and engaging all stakeholders – should take a lead in global governanceplay an active role in global cooperation reform to make international institutions more legitimate and conducive to shared responsibility, while promoting its own interests in the process; insists that the EU should evaluate its contribution to global governancecooperation reform and how it can take advantage of reforms to identify a stronger role for itselfmore firmly its own active role;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the need to apply a strategic approach and a coherent rationale in external representation by developing an EU strategy on each multilateral organisation aimed at enhancing the Union's role and strengthening its position; asks the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative and the Commission to draw up a White Paper on the role of the EU in multilateral organisations, proposing a comprehensive and strategic approach both for the short run and the medium-term future through to 2020;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is of the view that in cases of exclusive Union competences, the EU should be the pre-eminent actor withand seek full membership of the given multilateral organisation, while its Member States may also – but not necessarily – be present as members, but usually without an independent role; calls on EU Member States to reduce their representation, and thus costs, at meetings where the EU Delegation speaks on their behalf, and takes the view, furthermore, that where shared Union competences prevail, the norm should be for the EU and its Member States both to be members;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considering that the UN is the major multilateral actor and the primary forum through which effective multilateralism can be achieved, calls on the EU and its Member States to seek to enhance the EU's role and capacity within this global multilateral framework; underlines the need for the EU to convert strategic support for the UN into policy and practical actions; calls on the EU to take a consistent stand to urge reinforcement of the United Nations’ civilian instruments and strict compliance with and application of international law by all States, groups of States and multilateral partners;