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White paper on the future of European defence
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Amendment 10
Reinier Van Lanschot
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
White paper on the future of European defence
Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
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| 32. Insists that the Rapid Deployment Capacity must achieve full operational capability in 2025 and should be upgraded to be able to face the most extreme military contingencies; reiterates its call to strengthen the EU’s Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC), establishing it as the preferred command and control structure for EU military operations and providing it with adequate premises, staff and effective communication and information systems for all CSDP missions and operations, including those of the Rapid Deployment Capacity; | 32. Insists that the Rapid Deployment Capacity must achieve full operational capability in 2025 and should be upgraded to be able to face the most extreme military contingencies; proposes to upgrade it by transforming it into a permanent multinational force with its own strategic enablers and command and control; calls on the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy to launch a discussion with the Member States in view of creating additional permanent multinational units to respond to the changing threat landscape for the EU since the decision to create the Rapid Deployment Capacity; reiterates its call to strengthen the EU’s Military Planning and Conduct Capability (MPCC), establishing it as the preferred command and control structure for EU military operations and providing it with adequate premises, staff and effective communication and information systems for all CSDP missions and operations, including those of the Rapid Deployment Capacity; |
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Amendment 11
Reinier Van Lanschot
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
White paper on the future of European defence
Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
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| 37. Urges the EU and its Member States, with regard to armed forces, to move from the ‘flow’ approach that prevailed during peaceful times to a ‘stock’ approach, with a stockpile of defence equipment ready for a sustained increase in demand; notes, in this regard, the advantages offered by mechanisms such as advance purchase agreements, the establishment of ‘ever-warm’ facilities and the creation of defence readiness pools; believes that the Commission should take any actions necessary to encourage the Member States to increase exchanges and build trust among them regarding long-term, transparent planning, more proactive measures aimed at securing raw materials, and policies to close gaps in production processes and on the labour market; | 37. Urges the EU and its Member States, with regard to armed forces, to move from the ‘flow’ approach that prevailed during peaceful times to a ‘stock’ approach, with a stockpile of defence equipment ready for a sustained increase in demand; notes, in this regard, the advantages offered by mechanisms such as advance purchase agreements, the establishment of ‘ever-warm’ facilities and the creation of defence readiness pools; believes that the Commission should take any actions necessary to encourage the Member States to increase exchanges and build trust among them regarding long-term, transparent planning, more proactive measures aimed at a socially and environmentally sustainable provision of the relevant raw materials, and policies to close gaps in production processes and on the labour market; |
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Amendment 12
Reinier Van Lanschot
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
White paper on the future of European defence
Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56 a (new)
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| 56a. Stresses the need to develop an effective EU level armaments policy that includes the establishment of a functioning and effective external trade dimension with the aim of supporting partners that face threats from aggressive authoritarian regimes and preventing arms deliveries to undemocratic aggressive regimes and those who make illegal use of them, as assessed by the relevant international human rights and humanitarian law, in line with the existing eight criteria of the EU Common Position on Arms Exports; stresses the need to overcome the very narrow and national interpretation of Article 346 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union in this respect; |
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Amendment 13
Reinier Van Lanschot
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
White paper on the future of European defence
Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57 a (new)
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| 57a. Calls for the energy resilience and climate and environmental transition dimensions to be strengthened under the successor of the EDF, and for the climate-proofing and decarbonisation (covering both adaptation and mitigation) of EU defence by design and across the five dimensions – operational, capability planning and development, multi-stakeholder engagement, governance and research and development – for the benefit of performance of military capabilities, resilience of armed forces, and thus the competitiveness of EDTIB; |
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Amendment 14
Reinier Van Lanschot
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
White paper on the future of European defence
Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68
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| 68. Welcomes the five-point ‘ReArm Europe’ plan proposed by the Commission President on 4 March 2025; | 68. Welcomes the five-point ‘ReArm Europe’ plan proposed by the Commission President on 4 March 2025; stresses, however, that the planned investments should address the lack of cooperation and coordination between the Member States, including measures guaranteeing full interoperability and making joint procurement the rule; |
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Amendment 15
Reinier Van Lanschot
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
White paper on the future of European defence
Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 a (new)
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| 68a. Emphasises that the current circumstances underscore the urgent need for the Member States to avail themselves of financial resources to respond to current and future challenges; welcomes the Council’s openness to accepting deviations from the economic governance framework; invites the Commission to initiate a review of the EU fiscal rules to ensure long-term funding certainty for investments aimed at expanding European defence production capabilities and promoting the green and just transitions; |
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Amendment 16
Reinier Van Lanschot
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
White paper on the future of European defence
Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 b (new)
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| 68b. Stresses the need to significantly boost start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs in the sector as a priority and a structural element of the single market for defence section of the white paper; stresses that, for well-established or systemic actors in the defence sector, public investment should be accompanied by additional safeguards to ensure that public money is reinvested and not used for the purpose of generating profits for their shareholders, such as by windfall profit taxes; |
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Amendment 17
Reinier Van Lanschot
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
White paper on the future of European defence
Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69 a (new)
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| 69a. Underlines that increases in defence investment should not compete with other public investment priorities including social expenditure, territorial cohesion and the climate transition, which are all relevant to our European security; reiterates that the most effective way to maintain such priorities is to release fresh investments for defence rather than repurposing already earmarked funding; recalls, furthermore, that financing orientations should be anchored in a whole-of-society approach to resilience and, therefore, need to be broadly supported by European citizens, and that this support needs to be sustainable in the long term; |
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Amendment 18
Reinier Van Lanschot
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
White paper on the future of European defence
Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69 b (new)
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| 69b. Opposes any repurposing of common agricultural policy and cohesion funds, both in volume and political objectives; |
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Amendment 19
Reinier Van Lanschot
on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
White paper on the future of European defence
Joint motion for a resolution
Paragraph 74
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| 74. Reiterates, in line with the Commission’s ‘ReArm Europe’ plan, its call for the European Investment Bank (EIB) and other international financial institutions and private banks in Europe to invest more actively in the European defence industry; calls, in particular, for an urgent revision of the EIB’s lending policy and immediate flexibility to remove current restrictions on financing defence, and for the possibility of issuing earmarked debt for funding security and defence projects to be investigated; | 74. Reiterates, in line with the Commission’s ‘ReArm Europe’ plan, its call for the European Investment Bank (EIB) and other international financial institutions and private banks in Europe to invest more actively in the European defence industry; calls, in particular, for an urgent revision of the EIB’s lending policy and immediate flexibility to remove current restrictions on financing defence innovation, and for the possibility of issuing earmarked debt for funding security and defence projects that focus on innovation to be investigated, while safeguarding its operations and financing capacity; |
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