Activities of Sabine LÖSING related to 2018/2097(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT Annual report on the implementation of the Common Foreign and Security Policy PDF (303 KB) DOC (63 KB)
Amendments (8)
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the time has come for the European Union to take its destiny into its owEU does not reflect its negative and escalating role concerning current conflicts and forced migration, in particular in the southern hands eastern EU-neighbourhood; takes the view that the EU should embrace its role as a fully- fledged, sovereign political power in international relations that helps to resolve conflicts worldwide peacefully and diplomatic only and shapes global governance;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls onDeplores that the European External Action Service (EEAS), the Commission and the Member States to act strategically byare using all the means at their disposal, including trade, development, and diplomatic and military tools, to strengthenenforce the EU’s geopolitical influence and protect itseconomic interests;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for sufficient financial resources to be made available for the EU’s civilian external action under the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) (2021-2027); takes the view that the growing challenges in the EU’s neighbourhood and beyond call for significantly higher appropriations for external action such as diplomatic and peaceful conflict resolution including mediation initiatives, disarmament including complete global nuclear disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration programmes, poverty eradication, humanitarian aid, and sustainable and fair economic and social development;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Firmly rejects the establishment of the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) and its successor programme the European Defence Fund as well as the creating of a new heading V ‘Security and Defence' within the post 2020 MFF; recalls that according to Article 41 (2) expenditure arising from operations having military or defence implications shall not be charged to the Union Budget; denounces and deeply deplores the unprecedented speed with which the EU is being militarised; insists that the EU and its Member States should work for peace and focus on diplomatic and peaceful conflict resolution;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recalls that the Mediterranean is one of the most unequal borders in the world; reiterates the urgent need to stimulate thea fair economic and social development of the Ssouthern Mediterranean basin and Sub- Saharan Africa in order to create local economic opportunities and manufacturing industry in the countries of origin of migrants; welcomnotes, in this regard, Commission President Juncker’s proposal to build a new Aalliance for Sustainable Investment and Jobs between Europe and Africa, and insists that this initiative to develop the various European-African trade agreements into one continent-to- continent fneeds to contain fair trade agreements instead of free-trade and meaningful measurees trade agreement, as an economic partnership between equalso eradicate poverty and socio-economic inequalities in order to allow a real and sustainable development of the African Continent;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. WelcomeStrongly rejects the steps taken to increase the EU’s military autonomy, namely the establishment of a European single command centre in Brussels for European military training missions, and removing obstacles to thfuture deployment of EU Battlegroups; believerecalls that the establishment of Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) on defence projects and the coordinated review of national defence budgets will help the Member States to spend their defence budgets more effectively; further militarise the Union and means the de facto founding of the European Defence Union; warns in this regards that with PESCO the existing unanimity rule in the Council concerning CSFP and CSDP decisions will be annulled;
Amendment 331 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. SupporFirmly rejects the proposal set out by Commission President Juncker in his State of the Union Address on 12 September 2018 to move to qualified majority voting (QMV) in specific areas of the CFSP where the Treaties currently require unanimity, notably human rights issues, sanctions and civilian missions; believstresses that the use of QMV would enable the EU to act more resolutely, quickly and effectively; calls on the European Council to take up this initiative by making use of the passerelle clause (Article 31(3) TEU); encourages the European Council to consider extending QMV to other areas of the CFSPis would further lead to a political and together with PESCO a military 'core Europe'; further criticises that at the same time no increase of scrutiny competences and control rights for the European Parliament are foreseen;