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Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Alviina Alametsä
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Finland
Language: EN

Madam President, the cruel attack of Russia against Ukraine has shown that our Member States can make prompt decisions on our common security policy. Europe is not weak. We have to have a unified front in critical issues. This is what our citizens want. In a recent polling, over 80% of the EU citizens are in favour of common EU security and defence policy and think that cooperation should be increased. Today, Ukraine is fighting for peace and democracy for all of us. We have to help them by sending Leopard 2 battle tanks, on which we Greens have made a proposal to this report. We need a European coalition to deliver these tanks to Ukraine swiftly, and German leadership in this shared action. And we have to think even further ahead in security policy as, for example, even with the swift decision, the delivery of these tanks will take some time. The EU has to take strong leadership in decisions vital to Ukraine and to the EU’s own security. Our Member States have to be ready and able to respond to this war that threatens our values and global peace. We cannot rely on the United States. The EU needs to take a stronger and more determined role in its own security. This report matters, but the support that we can give to Ukraine immediately matters even more. Thank you, colleagues, for working together on this.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Susanna Ceccardi
Political group: ID
Country: France
Language: IT

Signor Presidente, Alto rappresentante, onorevoli colleghi, la sfida delle dittature alle democrazie è ricominciata.  Serve unità di intenti in tutte le democrazie, anche al di fuori dei confini dell'Unione europea. Per questo è realmente importante stringere legami di cooperazione più solidi con gli USA, con Israele e con le democrazie asiatiche che condividono i nostri valori. Ma veramente questa unità d'intenti si raggiunge con il principio di unanimità? Vogliamo prendere decisioni importanti anche contro gli interessi di paesi membri in minoranza? L'Europa è forte perché è plurale. L'Europa è forte quando le nazioni che la compongono sono forti. Non dobbiamo mai confondere l'unità con l'unificazione e con la centralizzazione. Abbiamo deciso di dare la priorità alla difesa del nostro fianco orientale. Ed è giusto. Ma vedo poco interesse per il Mediterraneo. E sono ancora in corso conflitti in Libia, in Siria. Dobbiamo lottare contro le influenze ostili di Russia e Cina. Giusto. Ma tutti devono fare pulizia in casa loro. Il Qatargate dimostra che una fetta importante della politica europea si è fatta comprare da paesi che violano i diritti umani.  Un'Europa plurale e libera. Libera da tutte le influenze ostili, senza eccezioni interessate. Questa è l'Europa che vogliamo.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Alexandr Vondra
Political group: ECR
Country: Ireland
Language: EN

Mr President, well, the report which we are discussing today contains a lot of interesting recommendations but has one problem: it is a long list of the various recommendation ideas, including those which we will be discussing years ahead, like QMV reform, and meanwhile there is a war in the Ukraine, where we rightly support the Ukraine against this terrible Russian aggression but our deliveries are deadly slow.  The storages are empty and we need to do much more and much faster. And therefore, instead of producing another hundreds of thousands of papers, we should do one thing: the same what FDR did for Churchill, this lend and lease programme to allocate EUR 50 billion into debt and to start  delivering armaments of Ukraine so that they would be able to win. But it requires the deeds, not the words. This is our problem, we have to work on the deeds.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Marcel de Graaff
Political group: NI
Country: France
Language: NL

Voorzitter, de EU en de NAVO hebben zich agressief uitgebreid naar het oosten. In deze uitbreiding hebben ze Rusland niet aan boord genomen als mogelijke partner. Bovendien hebben ze ook geen rekening gehouden met de veiligheidsbelangen van Rusland. Een werkelijk onafhankelijk Europa is een Europa  Tegenover de EU ontstaat nu een sterk bondgenootschap van landen als China, Rusland, India, Iran, Turkije en Saudi-Arabië dat afscheid neemt van de dollar. De EU gaat als grootmacht ten onder aan de sancties tegen Rusland en de militaire steun aan Oekraïne. De lidstaten geven geld en wapens weg, maar maken zonder gas hun industrie kapot. De EU wordt een dwerg in een multipolaire wereld en de burgers betalen de rekening.  De Commissie moet het roer omgooien. Neem Turkije, dat nu bemiddelaar is in dit conflict, als voorbeeld. Stop met ophitsen en oorlog voeren. Een EU voor de burgers is een EU die streeft naar vrede.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Francisco José Millán Mon
Political group: PPE
Country: Spain
Language: ES

Señor presidente, en primer lugar, felicito a los ponentes por sus informes. Estamos, desde luego, ante un escenario geopolítico muy complejo. La agresión de Rusia contra Ucrania ha traído la guerra de vuelta a suelo europeo. Deberíamos continuar nuestra ayuda a Ucrania y esforzarnos más para que la mayoría de los países de la comunidad internacional no solo contengan la agresión, sino que también se sumen a las sanciones a Rusia, especialmente aquellos próximos a nosotros. Pienso en los Balcanes, en América Latina o el norte de África. La guerra también ha puesto de manifiesto la necesidad de la cooperación transatlántica. Acierta plenamente el ponente McAllister cuando afirma que deben celebrarse cumbres periódicas anuales con los Estados Unidos. La última fue en junio de 2021, con la declaración «Hacia una asociación transatlántica renovada» y la puesta en marcha, por ejemplo, del Consejo de Comercio y Tecnología. Necesitamos otra cumbre este año para profundizar en las relaciones, solventar problemas —por ejemplo, la llamada Ley contra la inflación— y lograr una mayor coordinación en política exterior a través de la creación del consejo político transatlántico que reclama este Parlamento. En materia de política de defensa, también tenemos la Brújula Estratégica, pero el escenario ha cambiado radicalmente con la guerra de Rusia y deberíamos actualizarla.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Pedro Marques
Political group: S-D
Country: Czechia
Language: PT

Senhor Presidente, Caro Alto Representante, os relatórios anuais de Política Externa e de Política de Segurança e Defesa Comum representam a posição deste Parlamento relativamente a algumas das mais importantes políticas da União.  A relevância destas políticas tornou-se mais evidente com a guerra de agressão da Rússia na Ucrânia. Expôs a necessidade de uma maior articulação entre os Estados-Membros e a implementação de uma verdadeira política externa de segurança e defesa comum.  Expôs a relevância da Bússola Estratégica apresentada pelo Alto Representante em devido momento. Num momento decisivo, surpreendemos Putin, soubemos unir-nos e temos que continuar unidos pela nossa autonomia estratégica, utilizar mais as nossas ferramentas de política externa para promover os nossos valores, mas também reforçar as nossas principais alianças.  O mundo tornou-se muito mais perigoso. Precisa de uma União Europeia mais decidida e mais capaz para contribuir para a paz, segurança, estabilidade e desenvolvimento global.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Ilhan Kyuchyuk
Political group: Renew
Country: Netherlands
Language: EN

Mr President, dear High Representative, dear colleagues, I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mr McAllister for his comprehensive approach on this report on the EU’s foreign, security and defence policy. It is of paramount importance and it is of paramount importance in preserving peace and reinforcing international security. It is clear that EU has learned from its previous geostrategic mistakes and this is evident in the way it has responded to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. The EU’s unified and sustained response is testament to the effectiveness of the EU’s foreign, security and defence policy, which is guided by our shared values. But it is not time to stop. The world is watching us and in order to be a credible actor and maintain the respect of autocracies around the world, the EU and its Member States need to increase their military, political and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine and strengthen their defence in countering Russian threats to Ukraine’s security.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Bernhard Zimniok
Political group: ID
Language: DE

Herr Präsident! Niemand braucht eine EU-Armee, die die Inkompetenz der EU in all ihren Facetten repräsentieren würde. Seit vielen Jahren versucht die EU durch eine gemeinsame Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik, genau diese EU-Armee einzuführen und damit die Souveränität der Mitgliedstaaten in einem weiteren Bereich zu untergraben. Zentralisierung ist alles, was die EU kennt, wo sie in allen Bereichen bisher gescheitert ist, ja in allen Krisen jämmerlich versagt hat.  Noch schlimmer ist aber, dass in diesen beiden Berichten die Abstimmung mit qualifizierter Mehrheit eingeführt und das Einstimmigkeitsprinzip aufgegeben werden soll. Die europäischen Nationen könnten also in Zukunft in so wichtigen Bereichen wie der Migration und der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik überstimmt werden, entgegen vitaler nationaler Interessen. Und dass Sie, Herr McAllister, als Deutscher in diesem Bericht sogar den dauerhaften Verzicht auf Nord Stream fordern und damit die Energieversorgungssicherheit Deutschlands aufs Spiel setzen, sollte auch dem letzten in unserem Lande vor Augen führen, was die CDU heute ist: unwählbar und eine Schande für unser Land. Die Berichte sind natürlich abzulehnen.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Kinga Gál
Political group: NI
Country: Spain
Language: HU

Elnök Úr! Az Unió történetében eddig nem tapasztalt idők, a háború, a körülöttünk kialakult instabilitás, stratégiai megfontoltságot igényelnek. Sajnos nem ez tükröződik a most vitatott jelentésekből, amelyek sok esetben inkább tűnnek aktivista NGO-típusúaknak, mint megfontoltnak. Ezek mind az EP-re, mind az Unió külpolitikájának egészére nézve károsak lehetnek. Csak egy példa erre a külügyi jelentésben, a bővítési biztossal szemben megfogalmazott példanélküli és méltatlan bírálat. Aki pedig kulcsszerepet játszik abban, hogy az Unió bővítési politikája újra lendületet kapjon. A közös politikák terén, a tagállamok közötti együttműködés erősítése kulcskérdés. Az egyhangúságon alapuló döntéshozatalt eltörölni kívánó javaslatok, nemcsak az alapszerződésekkel mennek szembe, hanem az Unió alapvető érdekeivel is. A többségi döntéshozatal bevezetése valójában csak néhány nagyobb tagállam érdekét szolgálja, miközben a kisebb államok szuverenitási érdekérvényesítését és a kölcsönös szolidaritást súlyosan csorbítaná. Az egyhangúság megőrzése valójában az egység a sokféleségben alapelvnek, a jóhiszeműségen alapuló együttműködésnek a védelmét jelenti. Ki kell állnom mellette!
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Vangelis Meimarakis
Political group: PPE
Country: Germany
Language: EL

Κύριε Πρόεδρε, το αβέβαιο και ασταθές περιβάλλον στο οποίο ζούμε και το οποίο δημιουργήθηκε από αποσταθεροποιητικούς παράγοντες που καραδοκούν να διαλύσουν συθέμελα το ευρωπαϊκό οικοδόμημα, μας επιβάλλει σήμερα περισσότερο από ποτέ να ενδυναμώσουμε την ενιαία ευρωπαϊκή πολιτική άμυνας και ασφάλειας της Ένωσής μας. Και αυτό το τονίζω όχι μόνο ως Ευρωπαίος αλλά και ως Έλληνας, ο οποίος βλέπει τον δύστροπο γείτονά του να εκβιάζει, να παραβιάζει το διεθνές δίκαιο και να φτάνει ακόμα και στο σημείο να απειλεί με casus belli. Οι υπερπτήσεις, η παράνομη αλιευτική δραστηριότητα, η εργαλειοποίηση του μεταναστευτικού και η βεβήλωση μνημείων παγκόσμιας πολιτιστικής κληρονομιάς είναι πλέον καθημερινό φαινόμενο. Και για να καταλάβετε όλοι ότι η Τουρκία έχει ξεπεράσει κάθε όριο, σας υπενθυμίζω, κ. Borrell και αγαπητοί συνάδελφοι, την επιστολή που έστειλε ο Έλληνας υπουργός Εξωτερικών, ο κ. Δένδιας, στην οποία περιγράφει την πραγματική κατάσταση και υπογραμμίζει ότι η ανοχή της Ελλάδας στις προκλήσεις αυτές τελειώνει.  Η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση λοιπόν —όχι με λόγια αλλά με πράξεις και έργα— πρέπει να ορθώσει το πραγματικό της ανάστημα και να υπερασπιστεί τα κυριαρχικά δικαιώματα των κρατών της από ορέξεις και βλέψεις τρίτων χωρών. Επιπλέον, πρέπει να θέσει στοχευμένους και αυστηρούς κανόνες όσον αφορά τη συμμετοχή τρίτων χωρών σε εμπορικές συμφωνίες στο πεδίο άμυνας και ασφάλειας, πάντοτε βέβαια με σεβασμό στα συμφωνηθέντα και στην αρχή της αιρεσιμότητας.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Tonino Picula
Political group: S-D
Country: France
Language: EN

Mr President, Mr High Representative, first of all, congratulations to the colleagues who worked on these documents.  The brutal war in Ukraine marked the past year and exposed several of our shortcomings that we need to address and in many ways we reacted in a positive, unprecedented way.  Despite many challenges and some countries regressing, I am particularly content that the enlargement policy is being mainstreamed again. In the past year, three countries became candidate countries. One was given a European perspective. One applied for the membership and two more finally began their negotiations. This is a good example of recognising political realities and necessities and moving things forward. We should apply this approach further.  So my main conclusion would be that in the ever-challenging global environment, including a war on our continent, our answer should be ‘more Europe’. It’s time to reform our common foreign security and defence policies so that they are no longer the weakest link of our integration.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Dragoş Tudorache
Political group: Renew
Country: Lithuania
Language: EN

Mr President, we can take pride in these reports and I congratulate the rapporteurs and the shadows for their work on them. They capture the complexities of our posture in foreign affairs as well as in building a stronger architecture for security and defence. If I am to think about all the pressing issues that lie ahead and select only one long-term goal to solve them, I would make a pledge for a true and credible defence union accompanied by a rejuvenated defence industry.  We keep speaking about the role of the EU in the world, our partners, our liabilities and dependencies about strategic autonomy and, of course, about the war on our borders. A defence union would give a sense to all that it would strengthen EU’s position in foreign affairs, its capacity to act quickly, decisively, to be taken seriously both by the actors we want to partner with and by those challenging us. A Defence Union is not built in a day, but we must set it as a goal along with the milestones that can render us step by step more resilient.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Jean-Lin Lacapelle
Political group: ID
Country: Germany
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, chaque année, le rapport sur la politique de sécurité et de défense commune marque une étape supplémentaire vers le fédéralisme dans un domaine qui ne devrait même pas être une compétence de l’Union européenne. Pour nous, la guerre en Ukraine est un drame auquel il faut absolument mettre fin le plus vite possible par la négociation. Pour vous, c’est l’occasion de faire la guerre. C’est à peine croyable. On lit dans ce texte en toutes lettres que la clause d’assistance mutuelle des États membres en cas d’agression doit être étendue à la déstabilisation, aux pressions économiques ou à la désinformation. C’est gravissime. Vous voulez que l’Europe attaque la Russie, mais aussi que la Russie attaque l’Europe, en demandant la livraison d’armes lourdes à l’Ukraine en sachant que la Russie considère cela comme de la belligérance. Nous refusons catégoriquement de rentrer dans l’escalade que vous proposez. Pour plus de facilité, vous voulez même supprimer l’unanimité des États sur les questions de défense. Pour nous, c’est inenvisageable. Sachez également qu’il est pour nous hors de question de fondre les intérêts stratégiques des pays européens, et surtout de la France, avec ceux de l’OTAN. Sachez encore que nous ne vous laisserons pas liquider l’industrie de défense française dans une soi-disant base industrielle européenne. Enfin, sachez surtout que pour nous, la souveraineté diplomatique, stratégique et militaire de la France n’est pas négociable.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Jérôme Rivière
Political group: NI
Country: Italy
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, l’Union européenne n’est pas une nation mais une institution internationale. Ce n’est pas parce qu’elle dispose d’un drapeau et d’un hymne – oripeaux d’une époque que vous détestez, où le patriotisme était une évidence culturelle – que l’Union européenne fait illusion. Et c’est parce que vous l’avez bien compris, Monsieur McAllister, que, faisant fi des traités, sans même faire semblant de vous inquiéter de l’avis des peuples, vous cherchez subrepticement à effectuer un nouvel hold-up sur des compétences qui relèvent exclusivement des nations – la politique étrangère, la politique de défense –, en souhaitant y imposer la règle de la majorité qualifiée. Comme bien d’autres, ces rapports ne resteront que des vœux, ceux d’enfants capricieux qui s’imaginent légitimes à imposer sans fondement leur volonté. Dans les conflits récents qui brutalisent notre continent, celui du Kosovo, celui entre la Russie et l’Ukraine, en n’oubliant pas celui entre l’Arménie et l’Azerbaïdjan, l’Union européenne a accumulé les erreurs, s’alignant sur la politique américaine sans vision de nos intérêts propres, pénalisant ainsi les citoyens en Europe. La règle de la majorité qualifiée dans ces domaines régaliens n’est pas pour demain, heureusement.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Miriam Lexmann
Political group: PPE
Country: Spain
Language: EN

Mr President, High Representative, dear colleagues, from the Russian aggression against Ukraine and the coercive behaviour of the totalitarian Chinese Communist Party to the Iranian nuclear threat, we are facing a multitude of serious global security challenges. We can no longer afford to be discussing empty concepts or engaging in an unnecessary battle between the EU institutions and NATO. Instead, we must put all efforts into concrete actions to rebuild the European security architecture, to support Ukraine with the necessary weapons to defend itself, to deliver on our defence spending commitments, and to protect our citizens and companies against cyber-attacks, disinformation and economic coercion. This is why I welcome the EU-NATO Joint Declaration. NATO is and must remain the cornerstone of our security, and the EU and NATO must work together to address the pressing challenges, in keeping with their respective competences.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Sven Mikser
Political group: S-D
Country: Hungary
Language: EN

Mr President, High Representative, colleagues, at a time when the innocent Ukrainians continue to be killed by the Russian aggressors, I think it’s clearly premature to congratulate ourselves for our unity or resolve or anything else. Indeed, we have to do more and we have to give much more.  In exactly one year from now, we are going to look back at the year 2023 and then, let’s be honest, the only yardstick with which we can measure our success or failure is our ability, or the lack thereof, to help Ukrainians to defeat the aggressor. When we say Ukrainians are also fighting for our future, it’s not mere rhetoric, because if indeed Russians are allowed  – a UN Security Council permanent member nuclear state – if it is allowed to get away with grabbing additional territory from a much smaller democratic neighbour, this will effectively be the end of the rules-based international order, which among other things, has allowed us to build Europe as a successful peace project.
Debate: Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report  - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report
Date: TUESDAY, 17 JANUARY 2023
Speaker: Klemen Grošelj
Political group: Renew
Country: Hungary
Language: SL

Gospod predsednik! Kompleksne varnostne razmere v Evropi in svetu zahtevajo od nas, da oblikujemo skupne evropske obrambne zmogljivosti. Čeprav je politična razprava osredotočena na vprašanje odločanja s kvalificirano večino, kar osebno vidim kot zgodovinsko nujnost, pa je danes, ko divja vojna v Ukrajini, pravo vprašanje zagotavljanje in vzdrževanje potrebnih vojaških zmogljivosti. Boleče dejstvo je, da so evropske države, tudi članice Evropske unije, na področju tako vojaške opreme in oborožitve kot streliva v veliki meri odvisne od uvoza. Prišel je čas, da od visokoletečih besed preidemo h konkretnim dejanjem. Naj bo prvi ta korak vzpostavitev okvira za skupne obrambne nabave, ki bodo nadomestile sedaj neučinkovit razdrobljen sistem nabav. Pokažimo enotnost, kot v času covida, in