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

Tabled by Sarah Knafo

45. Removed: Reiterates its call for the Council to gradually switch to qualified majority voting for decisions in areas of the CFSP that do not have military or defence implications; Added: Reaffirms that, in accordance with Article 24 TEU, the CFSP is an intergovernmental competence requiring unanimity for binding decisions, guaranteeing the sovereign right of each Member State to protect its own national strategic interests; acknowledges the concerns of some Member States, which fear a decreased ability to influence foreign and security policy at EU level; Removed: encourages, pending the full application of qualified majority voting to decisions without military or defence implications, the full use of all currently existing possibilities to enhance decisiveness in this regard, including the use of constructive abstention in line with Article 31(1) TEU; recognises that progress towards the application of qualified majority voting can only be gradual, building on the formation of a European strategic culture;

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