8 Amendments of Arnaud DANJEAN related to 2020/2080(INI)
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas PESCO’s long-term vision is to achieve a coherent full-spectrum force package available to the Member States; whereas PESCO should enhance the EU’s capacity to act as an international security provider in order to protect EU citizens and maximise the effectiveness of defence spending; whereas the cost of non-Europe in security and defence is estimated to be more than EUR 100 billion per year;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas currently, PESCO projects are dependent on the 25 participating Member States’ financial contributions; whereas it is expected that, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, national defence budgets will suffer reductions; whereas paradoxically, several of the currently 47 PESCO projects, if funded accordingly, could strengthen Member States’ preparedness, should another massive public health crisis occur: military mobility – a flagship PESCO project –, the European Medical Command and many other projects in areas related to logistics and transportation, health care, disaster relief and the fight against malicious cyber activities; whereas cutting funding for the strategic capabilities that the EU and its Member States currently lack would also weaken their ability to jointly act against future pandemics;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital W
Recital W
W. whereas the participation of third countries in individual PESCO projects, subject to very strict conditions and on the basis of established and effective reciprocity, might be in the strategic interest of the European Union, particularly in the case of the United Kingdom;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Z
Recital Z
Z. whereas deepening defence cooperation among Member States at EU level should go hand in hand with the strengthening of Parliament’s power of scrutinyan increase in the information made available to Parliament;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) focus PESCO efforts on projects with a more operational focus, in direct response to the needs of European armed forces engaged in operations, and with a strategic and integrative dimension, such as EUFOR CROC, and link those to other PESCO projects in order to create additional synergies and effects of scale;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point j a (new)
(ja) focus PESCO on constructive projects with a genuine European strategic dimension in order to strengthen the industrial and technological base of European defence;
Amendment 325 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u
Paragraph 1 – point u
(u) clarify or define the link between the governance of PESCO and that of the EDF and to involve Parliament in the ex- post control process when it comes to EDF funding of PESCO projects;