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White paper on the future of European defence
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B100150/2025 }RC1/Am. 70
Amendment 70
João Oliveira, Marc Botenga, Pernando Barrena Arza
on behalf of The Left Group
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White paper on the future of European defence
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Paragraph 63 c (new)
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| 63c. Calls for the reallocation of EU budget funds earmarked for militarisation programmes to support the Member States in improving wages and pensions, ensuring the good standards of healthcare, education, social security and public services, and the right to housing, improving living conditions; |
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B100150/2025 }RC1/Am. 71
Amendment 71
Marc Botenga, João Oliveira, Lynn Boylan
on behalf of The Left Group
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PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
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Paragraph 64 a (new)
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| 64a. Recalls that under Article 41(2) TEU expenditure arising from operations having military or defence implications may not be charged to the EU budget; calls for a strict application of this article; demands a retroactive review of corresponding defence funds and budget lines and for their termination where needed; |
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B100150/2025 }RC1/Am. 72
Amendment 72
Manon Aubry, Marina Mesure
on behalf of The Left Group
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PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
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Paragraph 68
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| 68. Welcomes the five-point ‘ReArm Europe’ plan proposed by the Commission President on 4 March 2025; | 68. Takes note of the ‘ReArm Europe’ plan presented by the Commission President and endorsed by the Council; recalls that the absence of new EU own resources means that the Member States will have to increase their contribution to the EU budget to repay the loans backed by the EU budget of up to EUR 150 billion; stresses that this reimbursement will be additional to the repayment of NextGenerationEU debt; |
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B100150/2025 }RC1/Am. 73
Amendment 73
Marc Botenga, João Oliveira, Giorgos Georgiou, Lynn Boylan
on behalf of The Left Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
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Paragraph 68 a (new)
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| 68a. Is deeply concerned that militarisation, and specifically the ‘ReArm Europe’ plan, is being used to further attack public services across the EU, which are already facing the suffocating effects of austerity measures imposed by the Commission; |
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Amendment 74
Manon Aubry, Marina Mesure, Marc Botenga, Pernando Barrena Arza
on behalf of The Left Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
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Paragraph 69
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| 69. Strongly supports the idea that EU Member States must increase their defence and security financing to new levels; notes that some Member States have already increased their defence spending to 5 % of GDP and insists that the current security environment and the multiple, complex and evolving security threats require Member States to increase their defence spending to at least 3 % of GDP; | 69. Notes that the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has proposed a suspension of fiscal rules for defence investments; condemns the double standards that allow military spending to rise indefinitely while social and environmental expenditure continues to face budget cuts; calls for any modification of the fiscal framework to be democratically approved by Parliament; highlights the fact that fiscal rules were already suspended during the COVID-19 crisis, and stresses that the need to amend this framework for every crisis demonstrates its long-term inadequacy; |
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B100150/2025 }RC1/Am. 75
Amendment 75
Manon Aubry, Marina Mesure
on behalf of The Left Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
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Paragraph 69 a (new)
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| 69a. Urges the Commission President to clarify whether or not the full reimbursement of the loans backed by the EU budget of up to EUR 150 billion will be covered by the national escape clause of the Stability and Growth Pact; |
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B100150/2025 } RC1/Am. 76
Amendment 76
Jonas Sjöstedt, Hanna Gedin
on behalf of The Left Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
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Paragraph 71
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| 71. Is of the opinion that national recovery and resilience plans should be amended to allow for new defence funding; calls for these investments to also address vulnerabilities in both military capabilities and the social fabric, empowering us to fight all threats to our values, social model, security and defence; | 71. Is of the opinion that national recovery and resilience plans should be amended to allow for new defence funding; calls for these investments to also address vulnerabilities in both military capabilities and the social fabric, empowering us to fight all threats to our values, social model, security and defence; reiterates the need to protect welfare services and social investments while investing in defence; recognises the importance of well-funded social welfare services in maintaining overall national resilience; reminds the Member States, to this end, of the importance of progressive taxation of capital gains and high incomes as significant sources of funding for both the reconstruction of national defence capabilities and comprehensive welfare services; |
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B100150/2025 }RC1/Am. 77
Amendment 77
Mimmo Lucano, Ilaria Salis, Marc Botenga, Giorgos Georgiou, Pasquale Tridico
on behalf of The Left Group
Cristina Guarda, Ignazio Roberto Marino, Leoluca Orlando, Benedetta Scuderi
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Paragraph 74 a (new)
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| 74a. Deplores the choice of using Article 122 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union as the legal basis for the ‘new financial EU instrument to support Member States in boosting their defence capabilities’; expresses grave concern that Parliament has been excluded from the decision-making process with regard to such a strategic decision and considers this to be a dangerous undermining of EU democracy; |
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B100150/2025 }RC1/Am. 78
Amendment 78
Marc Botenga, João Oliveira, Giorgos Georgiou
on behalf of The Left Group
Joint motion for a resolution
PPE, S&D, ECR, Renew, Verts/ALE
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Paragraph 74 b (new)
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| 74b. Calls for EIB financing to be strictly limited to civilian projects, excluding dual-use items; |
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