Security and Defence Subcommittee (SEDE) - European Parliament

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The ING2 meeting on Thursday 29 September from 9.00 to 12.30 will start with a hearing on "Russian disinformation and propaganda regarding Ukraine in the light of its war of aggression and its impact on democratic processes in the European Union".
Members will exchange views with experts about the tactics and techniques used by the Kremlin in spreading disinformation and propaganda around Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, and what impact these narratives have on the EU's democratic processes.

The invited experts are:

• Olga Rudenko, Editor-in-chief, Kyiv Independent,
• Michael Sheldon, Researcher, Bellingcat,
• Ross Burley, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Centre for Information Resilience.

The meeting will be held in association with the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (D-RU).
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The Subcommittee on Security and Defence will debate with Deputy Minister of Defence Jan Jireš, who will present the priorities of the Czech Presidency in the area of security and defence on 26 September. The discussions will focus on the proposed Regulation establishing the European Defence Industry Reinforcement through common Procurement Act, the ongoing work on development of the Hybrid Toolbox, and the proposal to establish a European Union Military Assistance Mission for Ukraine.
Meeting agenda and documents
Live streaming
EU Fact Sheets: Security and defence
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SEDE organises a public hearing on 'Russia's war on Ukraine - EU and Member States responses' on Monday, 26 September 2022 from 16.00 to 17.30hrs in Brussels (room SPINELLI 1G2) with external experts.
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SEDE organises a public hearing on 'Russia's war on Ukraine - EU and Member States responses' on Monday, 26 September 2022 from 16.00 to 17.30hrs in Brussels (room SPINELLI 1G2) with external experts.
Location : SPINELLI 1G2 Brussels
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The Monthly Highlights publication provides an overview, at a glance, of the on-going work of the policy departments, including a selection of the latest and forthcoming publications, and a list of future events.
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The next meeting of the Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE) is scheduled to take place on 26 September 2022.

The meeting agenda and documents will be published here.

SEDE missions 2022:

• SEDE mission to Mozambique from 18-22 September 2022
  
  
• SEDE mission to France from 19-21 July 2022
  
  
• SEDE mission to Iraq from 24-28 May 2022

• SEDE mission to Georgia from 10-14 April 2022

SEDE meetings' calendar - first half of 2022
SEDE meetings' calendar - second half of 2022
EP calendar 2022 revised
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Length of video : 59'

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Length of video : 60'

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will brief MEPs on the outcome of the 28-30 June NATO summit in Madrid and EU-NATO cooperation, on Wednesday.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
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The Subcommittee on Security and Defence will hold a debate with General Robert Brieger, the newly appointed Chair of the EU Military Committee, on the way the EU Military Committee is supporting the implementation of the Strategic Compass in the ongoing Russian military aggression against Ukraine, on 11 July. The committee will also enquire about future sustainability of the European Peace Facility in support of Ukraine, as the amounts originally envisaged are growing exponentially.
Meeting agenda and documents
Live streaming
EU Fact Sheets: Security and defence
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The AFET/SEDE delegation visited Kyiv, Zaporyzhya, and Mariupol (Ukraine) from 30 January to 1 February 2022. It was the first AFET mission to Ukraine since December 2019 and took place against the backdrop of a massive Russian military build-up on the border between Ukraine and Russia as well as on the border with Belarus.
The main purpose of the mission was to show solidarity with Ukraine, its population and institutions, and gather important factual elements on the security crisis in and around the country.
Location : Ukraine
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This analysis looks into the complex relationship between two trends in international governance: an increase in multilateral arrangements between countries in order to govern internationally on the one hand, and a lack of democratic control over the decisions taken by multilateral organisations or conferences on the other. Multilateralism in the modern sense refers to an international mode of operation involving peaceful negotiations and diplomacy, also referred to as a ‘rules-based international order’ or ‘rules-based multilateralism’. Several European countries have recently launched initiatives in support of multilateralism, in reaction to the increasingly unilateral behaviour of states undermining the existing rules-based international order. Apart from the European Union, no other multilateral organisation has a parliamentary body with the competence to block or amend its decisions, which indicates that there is a democratic deficit in these multilateral organisations. An initial response to such a democratic deficit is the involvement of national parliaments in international decision-making. This is known as ‘parliamentary diplomacy’. Secondly, the involvement of civil society in international decision-making through protests, petitions, consultations or participation can also enhance democracy. Thirdly, the organisation of national referenda on international decisions can be used by national governments or citizens’ initiatives to increase democratic legitimacy. Fourthly, a lack of democracy at international level can also be countered by creating an ‘alliance of democracies’, aimed at multilateral cooperation between democratic countries rather than the democratisation of multilateral organisations. These are mostly alliances of Western countries, which risks emphasising the differences between West and East or North and South. Three short case studies of parliamentary diplomacy with the strong involvement of the European Parliament (the Parliamentary Conference on the World Trade Organization (WTO), delegations to the Conferences of Parties of climate change agreements and the NATO Parliamentary Assembly) show that enhancing multilateral democracy is not the only aim of parliamentary diplomacy and that each case reveals a different mix between the ‘parliamentary’ aspect of democratisation and the ‘diplomacy’ aspects of information exchange or influencing.
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