Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025

Wording as published by the EP, in English.

1. Amendment 3Rejected

   Paragraph 32 a (new)

   Tabled by Sarah Knafo · ESN

   Added: 32a. Stresses that increases in defence expenditure and joint procurement will deliver sustainable security outcomes only if accompanied by an effective European preference; considers, in this regard, that Union instruments such as the European Defence Industry Programme (EDIP), the SAFE instrument and European defence projects of common interest should give clear priority to capabilities designed, developed and produced within the European Union, in order to strengthen the European defence technological and industrial base, reduce strategic dependencies on non-EU countries and ensure the operational sovereignty of the Member States;

2. Amendment 6Rejected

   Recital E a (new)

   Tabled by Lynn Boylan, Kathleen Funchion · The Left

   Added: Ea. whereas the neutrality of certain Member States must be respected and no policies should be pursued which would undermine such neutrality;

3. Amendment 7Rejected

   Paragraph 14

   Tabled by Lynn Boylan, Kathleen Funchion, Irene Montero +5 · The Left

   … North and Central Africa regions, and its linkage to the Jihadist terrorist Removed: threat; Added: threat and the belligerence and lack of respect for international law of the Israeli Government;

4. Amendment 8Rejected

   Paragraph 15

   Tabled by Özlem Demirel, Marc Botenga, Lynn Boylan +8 · The Left

   … the chances of long-term peace for all people in the Middle East; Removed: welcomes the US-negotiated peace plan between Israel and Hamas leading to a ceasefire; calls on all parties to fully comply Added: condemns, in the strongest terms, Israeli war crimes, genocide and ethnic cleansing committed in Gaza, as well as the illegal occupation and colonisation of Palestine; recalls that the provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice on 26 January 2024 create obligations for all states party to the Genocide Convention and require them to employ all means reasonably available to prevent genocide; calls therefore for a full military embargo on Israel, an effective ban on all trade supporting the illegal occupation of Palestine and the immediate suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement1a; calls for full compliance with the ceasefire, Removed: to deliver the bodies of all deceased hostages to their families, to allow the rapid delivery of Added: condemns the recent announcement to suspend the operation of several international humanitarian aid organisations which deliver life-saving aid to the Palestinians in Gaza and calls for the permanent lifting of all entry restrictions for humanitarian aid and Removed: access for other civilian assistance Removed: missions, and calls for a workable roadmap towards a two-state solution, the restoration of security and public order, including the disarmament of Hamas, the withdrawal of Israeli forces Added: missions throughout Palestine; demands the full withdrawal of Israel from Gaza, the Removed: reform and empowerment of the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip as necessary priority steps; considers it a pivotal moment for the entire region and a starting point towards further de-escalation and stability; urges the EU to swiftly broaden the mandate of its EU Border Assistance Mission to Rafah (EUBAM Rafah) and the EU Mission for the Support of Palestinian Police and Rule of Law (EUPOL-COPPS) in order to play a pivotal role in progress towards a viable political solution, including through support for the rule of law, security-sector reform and transitional justice; Added: West Bank and East Jerusalem; condemns Israel’s repeated attacks in the Middle East, including on Syria, Lebanon, Qatar, Yemen, Iraq and Iran and its illegal occupation of parts of Syria and Lebanon as an amplifying and driving force for instability in the region; ______________ 1a Euro-Mediterranean Agreement establishing an association between the European Communities and their Member States, of the one part, and the State of Israel, of the other part, (OJ L 147, 21.6.2000, p. 3, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/agree_internation/2000/384/oj).

5. Amendment 9Rejected

   Paragraph 19

   Tabled by Özlem Demirel, Marc Botenga, Irene Montero +3 · The Left

   19. Reiterates its concern about Removed: Russia’s intensified militarisation and its aggressive posture towards the EU Member States, increased geopolitical, climate-change- Added: intensified militarisation of the Arctic region by Russia and Arctic NATO states, increased geopolitical, climate-change and resource-driven competition in the Arctic as well as Removed: malign activities in European territorial waters and exclusive economic zones, including through Added: environmentally harmful activities, including the activities of the Russian shadow fleet; Removed: is also concerned about increased Chinese presence and the deepened cooperation between Russia and China in the Arctic, including joint exercises; stresses that it is essential to counterbalance Russia and China’s growing influence and military presence Added: stresses the need to protect the fragile environment of the Arctic and underlines the importance of overall stability and peace in the region; Added: stresses that the EU should pursue policies that ensure the highest priority for protecting the Arctic region, which in turn is one of the principal global climate regulators and is a major source of income for the inhabitants of the region, underlining the need for knowledge- and science-based policy that involves local Arctic communities and knowledge institutions; points out that the Arctic states have on several occasions declared their commitment to and worked towards resolving possible conflicts of interest in accordance with the principles of international law; emphasises that, despite the differences between the Arctic and Antarctic, but also due to their similarities, the Antarctic Treaty creates a framework for peaceful research and cooperation without becoming entangled in territorial disputes; calls, in this regard, for work on a similar framework for peaceful research and cooperation in the Arctic context; underlines the importance of overall stability and peace in the Arctic in accordance with the principles of international law; Removed: calls for concrete and effective action by the EU and its Member States using all available means and maximum strategic creativity to stop the shadow fleet, enhance Arctic and maritime domain awareness through enhanced surveillance, intelligence sharing and satellite monitoring, and protect critical infrastructure; stresses the need for the EU to ensure the effective monitoring of its external maritime borders to prevent illegal activities; is concerned by non-EU countries’ interference in Greenland, notably inflammatory narratives and … well as the US Government’s formulation of explicit threats against Greenland’s sovereignty; Added: strongly condemns these repeated threats to the territorial integrity of Greenland by the US President and his administration, by their assertion of direct territorial claims against Greenland, including the threat of military force;

6. Amendment 10Rejected

   Paragraph 27

   Tabled by Özlem Demirel, Marc Botenga, Irene Montero +3 · The Left

   … strategic long-term global interest in maintaining the rules and values-based international order, Removed: ensuring respect for international law and upholding Added: based on international law, the UN system and multilateralism; notes that traditional peacebuilding, peace negotiation expertise, transitional justice and confidence-building … ensure its relevance in this regard by exploiting the full potential of Removed: CSDP Added: civil instruments in order to ensure that peace negotiations benefit from its expertise … with countries that share the same belief in multilateralism and a rules-based Removed: international order; insists on the importance of a strong and close partnership with the UK on security and defence with specific conditions, and welcomes the EU-UK Security and Defence Partnership; Added: order founded on international law;

7. Amendment 11Rejected

   Paragraph 28

   Tabled by Özlem Demirel, Marc Botenga, Irene Montero +3 · The Left

   28. Regrets the weakening of Removed: non-proliferation Added: non-proliferation, disarmament and arms control regimes; calls for the redoubling of efforts to reverse … in particular in the field of non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; Removed: points out that, while a nuclear deterrent is of crucial importance in protecting Europe as a continent, the UK and France are the only European countries that possess nuclear weapons; Added: calls, in this regard, for the EU to actively support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and to work towards its implementation and further ratification by the EU Member States that have not done so; reaffirms its full support for the EU and its Member States’ commitment … cornerstone of the nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime; stresses the need for Removed: an effective EU-level armaments policy to be developed and for greater transparency and convergence at national and EU level on arms exports, especially during a period of increased defence spending and Removed: EDTIB reinforcement; Added: EDTIB; calls on the Member States to respect the EU Common Position on Arms Removed: Exports and acknowledges their competences in their defence acquisition policies; Added: Exports; calls on the Member States to fully comply with Common Position Removed: 2008/944/CFSP10 Added: 2008/944/CFSP and to strictly implement Criterion Four on regional stability and halt arms … aggressively against another country in general and the Member States in particular; Removed: 10 Council Common Position 2008/944/CFSP of 8 December 2008 defining common rules governing control of exports of military technology and equipment, (OJ L 335, 13.12.2008, p. 99, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/compos/2008/944/oj).

8. Amendment 12Rejected

   Paragraph 49

   Tabled by Özlem Demirel, Marc Botenga, Irene Montero +3 · The Left

   49. Removed: Welcomes Added: Deplores the recent substantial defence expenditure increases; Removed: notes the focus on national defence spending, including in the Defence Readiness Roadmap 2030, which leaves critical issues around fragmentation, potential budgetary and operational synergies, and interoperability unresolved; notes that making joint procurement the rule of the EDTIB could save billions of euro in defence spending; stresses the need to ensure that EU funds are channelled into collaborative projects, with clear European added value, that reduce our dependencies on non-EU countries; is of the view that, without structural European reform and collaboration, increased national spending may lead to continued duplication of efforts and inefficiencies; emphasises that the development of an internal market for defence also requires a lasting and coordinated financial framework that enables long-term investment planning; calls for the pooling of parts of national defence budgets at EU level, in order to generate economies of scale and invest in capabilities used for the collective defence of the EU; stresses that defence investment must be supported by coordinated multiannual planning between Added: stresses that the use of EU programmes and funds, such as EDF, EDIP, ReARM and SAFE, to amplify the build-up of military industrial sectors violates Article 41(2) TEU, which prohibits spending from the EU budget for military purposes; opposes the militarisation of the EU and the Removed: Member States, in line with the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence and NATO Capability Development Plan documents; calls on the Commission to further explore targeted EU grant funding options to complement funding from SAFE loans, EU programmes and national budgets; Added: establishment of a military union;

9. Amendment 14Rejected

   Paragraph 81 a (new)

   Tabled by Lynn Boylan, Kathleen Funchion, Estrella Galán · The Left

   Added: 81a. Affirms that the neutrality of certain Member States must be respected and that no policies should be pursued which would compromise such neutrality;

10. Amendment 15Adopted

    Citation 27 a (new)

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Reinis Pozņaks, Charlie Weimers · ECR

    Added: – having regard to its resolution of 23 November 2022 on recognising the Russian Federation as a state sponsor of terrorism1a, 1a OJ C 167, 11.5.2023, p. 18.

11. Amendment 17Adopted

    Paragraph 2 a (new)

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Michał Dworczyk, Reinis Pozņaks · ECR

    Added: 2a. Regrets that, despite Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine and its sustained hybrid attacks against the EU, seven EU Member States increased their imports of Russian energy in 2025 compared with the previous year; recalls that such continued dependence has been enabled by long-standing Kremlin-driven energy leverage, including the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which from their outset constituted geopolitical projects aimed at increasing Europe’s reliance on Russian gas, undermining the Union’s energy security and solidarity, and fuelling Russia’s capacity to wage war; underlines, therefore, that Nord Stream 1 and 2 must never be reactivated and calls for their permanent decommissioning as a matter of strategic security;

12. Amendment 17Adopted

    Paragraph 2 a (new)

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Michał Dworczyk, Reinis Pozņaks · ECR

    Added: 2a. Regrets that, despite Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine and its sustained hybrid attacks against the EU, seven EU Member States increased their imports of Russian energy in 2025 compared with the previous year; recalls that such continued dependence has been enabled by long-standing Kremlin-driven energy leverage, including the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which from their outset constituted geopolitical projects aimed at increasing Europe’s reliance on Russian gas, undermining the Union’s energy security and solidarity, and fuelling Russia’s capacity to wage war; underlines, therefore, that Nord Stream 1 and 2 must never be reactivated and calls for their permanent decommissioning as a matter of strategic security;

13. Amendment 17Adopted

    Paragraph 2 a (new)

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Michał Dworczyk, Reinis Pozņaks · ECR

    Added: 2a. Regrets that, despite Russia’s ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine and its sustained hybrid attacks against the EU, seven EU Member States increased their imports of Russian energy in 2025 compared with the previous year; recalls that such continued dependence has been enabled by long-standing Kremlin-driven energy leverage, including the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which from their outset constituted geopolitical projects aimed at increasing Europe’s reliance on Russian gas, undermining the Union’s energy security and solidarity, and fuelling Russia’s capacity to wage war; underlines, therefore, that Nord Stream 1 and 2 must never be reactivated and calls for their permanent decommissioning as a matter of strategic security;

14. Amendment 18Adopted

    Paragraph 14

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Reinis Pozņaks, Marion Maréchal · ECR

    … and Central Africa regions, and its linkage to the Jihadist terrorist threat; Added: stresses that this instability poses a serious threat to the security of Europeans, who are facing increased migratory pressure that facilitates the entry of terrorists into European territory;

15. Amendment 19Adopted

    Paragraph 15

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Reinis Pozņaks, Marion Maréchal · ECR

    … (PA) and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip as necessary priority steps; Added: underlines that the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip must be strictly and unequivocally conditional on robust international monitoring and enforcement mechanisms, and subject to clear and binding conditionality; stresses that all financial assistance, reconstruction material and infrastructure support must be fully controlled, audited and safeguarded to prevent any diversion to terrorist organisations or violent activities; emphasises that sustainable reconstruction, security and long-term stability in Gaza are inseparable from the complete exclusion of terrorist and extremist actors, and the PA’s capacity to prevent terrorism and armed violence; considers it a pivotal moment for the entire region and a starting …

16. Amendment 24Adopted

    Paragraph 50

    Tabled by Cristian Terheş, Reinis Pozņaks, Charlie Weimers +1 · ECR

    … its borders and beyond, and also to promote stability in its neighbourhood; Added: considers the funding of physical border barriers essential to safeguarding Europe against hybrid threats, including the instrumentalisation of mass migration, the prevention of smuggling and trafficking and the provision of a deterrent against a potential military attack; welcomes the Commission’s proposals to simplify, facilitate and accelerate defence procurement; calls …

17. Amendment 25Rejected

    Paragraph 27 a (new)

    Tabled by Cecilia Strada, Nicola Zingaretti, Stefano Bonaccini +52 · Members

    Added: 27a. Regrets the decision of some EU Member States to withdraw from humanitarian disarmament treaties, notably the 1997 Ottawa Convention and the 2008 Oslo Convention prohibiting the use, stockpiling, production and transfer of anti-personnel mines and cluster munitions; is of the view that, despite the challenging geopolitical situation and legitimate concerns on security, the deployment and use of such lethal weapons cannot be justified, considering the devastating humanitarian consequences for the civilian population during and long after conflict, especially for minors; calls on the Commission and the Council to request that Member States abide by their obligations under international and Union law, most notably Council Decision (CFSP) 2025/7811a; ______________ 1a Council Decision (CFSP) 2025/781 of 14 April 2025 in support of the Siem Reap-Angkor Action Plan for the implementation of the 1997 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction (OJ L, 2025/781, 15.4.2025, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec/2025/781/oj).