Activities of Sabine LÖSING related to 2015/2272(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The EU in a changing global environment - a more connected, contested and complex world (debate) DE
Amendments (14)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas many present and future challenges and threats to the EU are complex and will come from inside just as much as from outside the common borders; whereas a stronger political will for resolute common action on the part of the EU and its Member States is needed in order to respond effectively to these challenges, to safeguard the EU’'s values and societal model and to be a stronger, to promote priorities such as poverty eradication and the achievement of the Universal Development Goals, arms control, NPT- regime and the total nuclear- disarmament, fair trade, favouring balanced economic relations and to be a peaceful and civil global actor; whereas the EU Global Strategy on foreign and security policy must pave the way for this development;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the threats identified in the 2003 European Security Strategy – terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, regional conflicts, state failure and organised crime – remain for the most part relevant; whereas today the EU is faced with a number of additional challenges, such as the attempts by revisionist powers to redraw borders by force and challenge rules-based global order, climate change, major migratory flows, and cyber and hybrid warfare and threathe EU has to reflect its escalating and negative role concerning many conflict situations especially in its immediate southern and eastern neighbourhood which have led to many of the additional challenges;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas even for a swift and efficient response to threats on the part of the EU requires that interinstitutional barriers be overcome and silo mentalities broken dowtransparency, parliamentary scrutiny on national and EU- level are of utmost importance and shall not be further limited for the sake of rapid decisions and implementation;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the comprehensive approach andin its current implementation is de facto the subordination of all relevant policy areas under CFSP/CSDP and purely geostrategic and economic EU- interests and has to be reviewed, the consistent and coordinated use of the EU’s's civil external and internal policy instruments should be at the core of the new strategy;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the primary objective of the EU must be to guarantee the security of its citizens and of its territory while safeguarding its values and societal model and pursuing its fundamental interests. The EU must therefore ensure both its internal and its external resilience, its capacity to anticipate, pre-empt and resolve predictable threats and to be prepared to take swift action on unpredictable threats, and its capacity to recover from various types of attack, as well as; underscores that, safeguarding the security of supply of energy and raw materials must not involve any military means;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the EU in consequence to enhance coherent anIs concerned about the increased structured cooperation on defence research, the industrial base and cyber defence through pooling and sharing, in order to use defence budgets more efficiently. The European Defence Agency’s role needs to be strengthened and its resources increased to enable it to act more effectively. Member States should take more responsibility for building European capabilities and increase their military research expenditure through the EDA. Furthermore, a true European intelligence and forecasting capacity needs to be developed; objects to the merge of civilian and military research; rejects the financing of defence research, CSDP missions and military operations from the EU- budget; recalls that according to Art. 41 (2) TEU any expenditure arising from actions having military or defence implications must not be charged to the Union budget; notes with concern the Council's intention to develop projects for stepping up EU capabilities including remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) and rejects the use and development of armed drones and the illegal practice of extrajudicial targeted killings; strongly rejects any financing from the Horizon 2020 or any other funds for military, civil-military or security research in general and the development of RPAS in particular;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that a principal objective should be toinstead of moveing towards a voluntary joint defence forces and the framing of a common defence policy which will ultimately lead to a common defence. Supports, therefore,, the principal objectives should be disarmament and civilian conflict resolution; believes that the drafting of a White paper on EU Defence, thereby updating the Helsinki Headline Goal from 1999, is counterproductive in light of these objectives;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes the vital importance ofStresses that the EU should return to be a strictly civilian actor; therefore objects any strengthening EU-NATO cooperation, and supports the establishment of European forces which complement NATO in territorial defence and are able to conduct intervention operations autonomously beyond the EU’'s borders;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is of the opinion that in order to build stability and peace, the EU should keep up its enlargement commitments and continue cooperation with very closely associated countries within the context of the newly revised European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) in the spirit of cooperation, solidarity, mutual benefits and respect to the choices made by each sovereign state regarding its foreign, economic or social policy, a Neighbourhood Policy which prioritises the support of the development of neighbouring regions, promoting employment and education instead of neoliberal reforms and the integration into the EU- market; recalls that according to Article 49 TEU any European state may apply to become a member of the European Union, provided it adheres to the Copenhagen criteria and the principles of democracy and respect for fundamental freedoms and human and minority rights, and ensures the rule of law;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Believes that the EU should be a constructive and resilient global actor with a regional focus and aspire to be a ‘rule- maker’,support the UN and the General Assembly in order to establishing efficient multilateral global governance;
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Supports the principleat thate EU Member States should commit to using 2 % of their GDP for defence expenditure by 2024 in order to attain a higher degree of defence capabilityreduce their defence budgets as fast and as far as possible in order to free up resources for social and economic development goals;
Amendment 382 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Emphasises that the European Parliament is the Parliament of the EU and that EU action should be monitored and followed up and a parliamentary reservation mechanism in particular concerning CFSP and CSDP need to be established in this context;
Amendment 388 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses that a lack of parliamentary control and reservation of CSDP missions exists at European and at national levels, stresses that the 'pooling and sharing' concept and the so called comprehensive approach as well as close cooperation between EU and NATO, the ATHENA mechanism and the deployment of EU- Battlegroups clearly increasing this deficit; recalls that after the Iraq war some EU member states, like Spain or France, strengthen their parliamentary scrutiny of military operations, points out that parliamentary scrutiny reservation has to be implemented also at EU-level as it is the best practice example; criticises that some member states have dismantled the national parliamentary scrutiny of military operations under the pressure of i.e. NATO;