Activities of María MUÑIZ DE URQUIZA related to 2013/2146(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Main aspects and basic choices of the common foreign and security policy and the common security and defence policy (Article 36 TEU) - EU comprehensive approach and coherence of EU external action (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the EU comprehensive approach and its implications for the coherence of EU external action PDF (233 KB) DOC (115 KB)
Amendments (12)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
- having regard to the Joint Communication of the Commission and the HR/VP to the European Parliament and the Council on the EU's comprehensive approach to external conflict and crises JOIN(2013) 30 of 11 December 2013,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Regrets that despite the Lisbon Treaty innovations lack of progress in the consistency of the Union's external action persists in areas relating to development, trade, energy, environment, migration and other global issues; worries that Commission often takes a restrictive approach, protecting its own competences in these areas and minimizing coordination functions with the EEAS;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Urges the EU to make efforts to overcome its alarming dependence on foreign energy, as this will give it a greater ability to make its own international policy decisions;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Whereas the Lisbon Treaty and the current decision-making processes already require to "ensure consistency between the different areas of Union's external action and between these and its other policies"; whereas this objective would benefit from a greater role of the European Parliament on external relations;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Whereas comprehensiveness refers not only to the joined-up deployment of EU instruments and resources, but also to the shared responsibility of EU-level actors and Member States, whose policies, actions and support should contribute to more coherent and more effective EU External Action;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Whereas the fragmentation of external action policies lies at the heart of the EU's weakness as an international player;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Urges the EU to ensure that the EU participates effectively in the work of the UN General Assembly, making use of all the powers conferred on it by its status as a regional integration organisation;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls for the strengthening of EU's capacities for dealing with global challenges, notably the climate diplomacy; calls on the EEAS to identify political trade-offs and strike political bargains by linking climate and other aspects of EU's relations with partner countries; hopes that in the run-up to the Paris UN climate conference in 2015, the EEAS will start using its extensive network of EU delegations around the world in order to deepen European understanding of the interests and domestic politics of climate action in partner countries;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Considers it necessary to improve the visibility of the EU as a global player, both outside the EU and internally; believes that to do so it would be useful to draw up an internal strategy for informing EU citizens of actions carried out by the Union in the field of foreign policy and the benefits that flow from these;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16b. Reiterates the view, in keeping with the purposes of the Lisbon Treaty in enhancing EU foreign policy and the role of the EU in global peace, security and regulation, that an EU seat in an enlarged UNSC remains a central, long-term goal of the European Union; calls on the VP/HR to take the initiative to develop a common position of the Member States to that end; suggests, in order to achieve that goal in the future, working on prior coordination of positions in the Council of the EU on the introduction of new members of the UNSC and reform of the UNSC’s decision-making towards the possible use of a super-qualified majority;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. CRegrets the lack of ambition in the EU budget for external action for the period 2014-2020; calls for better anticipation of the funding needed to implement EU strategies; regrets that, in some cases, the EU’s actions have been delayed because of financial issues; calls for such structural problems to be remedied in future, including by making use of the new provisions provided by the Instrument for Stability and Peace (ISP);
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the EU’s recent development of regional strategies to define political priorities, communicate policy objectives, coordinate policy responses, build partnerships and focus on the implementation of resources; calls for the systematic elaboration of EU strategies to frame and give coherence to the EU’s action on the ground, drafted jointly by the EEAS and the relevant services of the Commission (notably DEVCO and ECHO), and under the lead of the HR/VP; calls the Commission to be actively involved in its areas of competence from the very beginning of this coordination;