Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024

Tabled by Lynn Boylan

44. Removed: Regrets, in this context, the fact that individual Member States have used their veto right to water down agreements, delay decision-making or thwart a common policy altogether; regrets that the potential for fast, efficient and effective foreign, security and defence action, as provided for, inter alia, by the passerelle clauses of the TEU, has never been used; Added: Affirms that foreign policy remains a competence of the Member States and that the positions of neutral Member States must be respected and cannot by compromised by the imposition of foreign policy positions on sovereign Member States;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE769.720v01-00