Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2023

Tabled by Anna Fotyga

… strategy in the area of security and defence; considers safe, secure and Removed: autonomous Added: unhindered access to space to be a critical aspect of the EU’s security … the strategy to draw up a classified annual space threat analysis document; Added: encourages closer transatlantic cooperation on space in order to ensure partnerships aimed at the development and application of joint technology in the space domain for our common security and defence; calls on Member States and allies to address the growing threat of the weaponisation of space, in particular the recent reports on Russia’s advances on space-based nuclear weapons technology, which would constitute a blatant violation of the 1967 Outer Space Treaty; calls, in this regard, on the international community to withdraw from any form of cooperation with the Russian Federation in the space domain, in areas where they have not yet done so;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE756.721