Ausschuss für Auswärtige Angelegenheiten (AFET) - Europäisches Parlament

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ÄNDERUNGSANTRÄGE 1 - 277 - Entwurf eines Berichts Förderung von regionaler Stabilität und Sicherheit in den Ländern des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Manu Pineda

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On Thursday, the European Parliament adopted three resolutions on the respect for human rights in Hong Kong, Brazil and Tajikistan.
Committee on Foreign Affairs
Subcommittee on Human Rights

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The next ordinary AFET Committee meeting is scheduled to take place on 13-14 July 2022

The meetings will be web-streamed.

AFET-SEDE-DROI meetings 2022
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On 13 July from 15.30 – 16.30, AFET will debate the external policy priorities of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU with Jan Lipavský, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. In the context of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, external relations will remain at the top of the Presidency's agenda. The Minister and MEPs will discuss current geopolitical challenges and ways to overcome them at this crucial time in the European foreign policy.
While much of EU's efforts during this Presidency will continue to be placed on defending Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity, the future EU-UK relations will still be high on the agenda as well as enlargement, the Eastern and Southern neighbourhood, transatlantic relations, as well as the Sahel and the Indo-Pacific.
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ENTWURF EINER STELLUNGNAHME zum Entwurf des Gesamthaushaltsplans der Europäischen Union für das Haushaltsjahr 2023
Ausschuss für auswärtige Angelegenheiten
Michael Gahler

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On Wednesday, Parliament outlined its assessment of the political situation in three accession countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Serbia.
Committee on Foreign Affairs

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The AFET delegation visited Albania and Montenegro from 23 to 26 May 2022. The main purpose of the mission was to reconfirm Albania’s readiness to start EU accession negotiations and to express support and encouragement for Montenegro’s efforts to conclude them.
Location : Albania and Montenegro
Mission report
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The AFET delegation visited Tunis from 10 to 14 April 2022. The main purpose of the mission was to reassess the path of Tunisia following more than a decade of democratic transition, during which democratic institutions have been established and tested. The recent increasing concentration of powers in the hands of the President since summer 2021 represents a cause for concern and justified an official visit.
While the President has suspended the Tunisian parliament already in July 2021, merely days before the visit in the end of March 2022, he proceeded to formally dissolve it. This made the visit even more timely than it already was.
Location : Tunisia
Mission report
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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
Mission report
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The AFET delegation visited Copenhagen, Nuuk and Reykjavik from 21 to 24 September 2021. It was the first AFET mission to Denmark, Greenland and Iceland.
The main purpose of the mission was to establish contacts and discuss with stakeholders in order to fine-tune the European Parliament own initiative report on "The Arctic: opportunities, concerns and security challenges" (2020/2112(INI)), which has since been voted respectively in plenary in October I 2021. The report contains inter alia the EP's proposals and recommendations ahead of the review of the EU Arctic strategy by EEAS and the Commission.
Location : Denmark, Grenland & Iceland
Mission report
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A delegation led for AFET by Chair David McAllister (EPP, DE) and for DROI by Nacho Sánchez Amor and comprising 11 MEPs in total visited the UN headquarters in New York.
The various meetings which were part of the programme were organised around overarching themes, such as (i) UN reform, (ii) UN Security Council reform, (iii) dialogue, cooperation and coordination at EU level in the UN system and cooperation in the UN with candidate countries, (iv) the role and agenda of China and Russia in the UN system and (v) how the UN and its Member States are going about developments crises in Afghanistan, Ethiopia and, more generally, developments in crisis prevention, crisis management and crisis resolution on the African continent, as well as (vi) UN focus on human rights challenges. This allowed Members to focus on a thread throughout the programme and to further their insight looking at analysis, main messages and vision from within the UN system and looking at the role and impact of the UN from the vantage point of its Members States and from the EU vantage point.
Location : New York (USA)
Mission report
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A delegation led by AFET Chair David McAllister (EPP, DE) and comprising 6 MEPs visited Ottawa (Canada) and met with high level officials from the Federal Government of Canada, Members of the Federal Parliament of Canada and academics and experts.
Location : Canada
Mission report
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The AFET delegation visited Ankara and Mardin from 24 to 27 February 2020. It was the first AFET mission to Turkey since March 2015.
The main aim of the visit was to gauge the prospects for EU-Turkey relations and assess the situation on the ground, including with regard to recent developments in the field of the rule of law, freedom of expression and media, and human rights. The delegation also discussed regional issues and Turkish foreign policy, the situation of Syrian refugees in Turkey and the Kurdish issue. The visit took place in the context of the upcoming AFET annual report on Turkey in the framework of the accession process.
Location : Turkey
Mission report
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