Conclusioni e raccomandazioni della commissione speciale sullo scudo europeo per la democrazia

Testo come pubblicato dal PE, in inglese.

1. Emendamento 1Respinta

   Recital AB a (new)

   Presentato da Csaba Dömötör, Marieke Ehlers, Fabrice Leggeri +2 · PfE

   Aggiunto: ABa. whereas the freedom of speech and expression constitutes one of the essential foundations of a democratic society; whereas the European Court of Human Rights established in its judgment of 7 December 1976 in Handyside v the United Kingdom, and has consistently reaffirmed in its subsequent jurisprudence, that this freedom is applicable not only to ‘information’ or ‘ideas’ that are favourably received or regarded as inoffensive or as a matter of indifference, but also to information or ideas that offend, shock or disturb the state or any sector of the population;

2. Emendamento 2Respinta

   Paragraph 1 a (new)

   Presentato da Csaba Dömötör, Marieke Ehlers, Fabrice Leggeri +2 · PfE

   Aggiunto: 1a. Recalls that the principles of conferral, subsidiarity and proportionality must be fully respected and that the European Democracy Shield must not result in an unjustified transfer of competences from the Member States to the EU or an expansion of Commission powers beyond those conferred by the Treaties; stresses the need to preserve the institutional balance established by the Treaties;

3. Emendamento 3Respinta

   Paragraph 34 a (new)

   Presentato da Csaba Dömötör, Marieke Ehlers, Fabrice Leggeri +2 · PfE

   Aggiunto: 34a. Stresses that freedom of expression and information, including freedom of opinion, as enshrined in Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, must be fully respected; underlines that measures against disinformation, including AI-enabled disinformation, must not become a pretext for censorship, political interference or ideological filtering; insists that the removal of content on grounds of illegality must be subject to an independent judicial decision or effective judicial review; rejects granting public authorities or publicly funded bodies the role of arbiters of truth;

4. Emendamento 4Respinta

   Paragraph 48 a (new)

   Presentato da Csaba Dömötör, Marieke Ehlers, Fabrice Leggeri +2 · PfE

   Aggiunto: 48a. Calls for the dismantling of EU-supported fact-checking organisations and networks; warns that institutionalised fact-checking risks undermining freedom of expression, media pluralism and open democratic debate; calls for the EU to favour transparency, free media and the exchange of ideas over publicly endorsed fact-checking structures, and to scrutinise the funding of organisations involved in politically sensitive fact-checking activities;

5. Emendamento 5Respinta

   Paragraph 53 a (new)

   Presentato da Csaba Dömötör, Marieke Ehlers, Fabrice Leggeri +2 · PfE

   Aggiunto: 53a. Calls on the Commission to establish a single, publicly accessible database covering all NGO grants, contracts, sub-grants and funded projects, including beneficiaries, amounts and relevant funding programmes; calls for the publication of underlying contracts upon request and the names and affiliations of external experts involved in funding decisions; stresses that, where NGOs receive EU funding, their financial relations and use of EU funds should be subject to full transparency, scrutiny and democratic accountability;

6. Emendamento 6Respinta

   Paragraph 80 a (new)

   Presentato da Csaba Dömötör, Marieke Ehlers, Fabrice Leggeri +2 · PfE

   Aggiunto: 80a. Recognises the particular threat of interference posed by the Muslim Brotherhood, notably through the infiltration and manipulation of European civil society via third-party organisations; is concerned, in this regard, about the Commission’s funding of the European Network Against Racism (ENAR), despite its links to the Muslim Brotherhood (as demonstrated by the French Ministry of the Interior in 2025); is also concerned about the activities of other organisations such as the Council of European Muslims (CEM), the Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organisations, (FEMYSO) and the Collectif Contre l’Islamophobie en Europe (CCIE), which form a complex network propagating the ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and threatening European societies;

7. Emendamento 7Respinta

   Paragraph 101 a (new)

   Presentato da Csaba Dömötör, Marieke Ehlers, Fabrice Leggeri +2 · PfE

   Aggiunto: 101a. Emphasises that electoral law and the organisation of elections remain within the competences of the Member States; stresses that EU action must respect national constitutional frameworks and democratic choices; calls for appropriate representation of opposition parties, or their participation as observers, in structures dealing with democratic governance; asserts that the European Democracy Shield’s initiatives must not, in themselves, constitute a risk of interference;

8. Emendamento 8Respinta

   Paragraph 104 a (new)

   Presentato da Csaba Dömötör, Marieke Ehlers, Fabrice Leggeri +2 · PfE

   Aggiunto: 104a. Calls on the Member States to prevent political parties, elected representatives and candidates from being denied essential banking services or financing solely on the basis of their political views or lawful activities; calls for transparent and objective criteria, effective remedies and appropriate safeguards against politically motivated account closures or financial discrimination, without prejudice to applicable anti-money laundering and financial regulatory requirements;

9. Emendamento 9Respinta

   Paragraph 104 b (new)

   Presentato da Csaba Dömötör, Marieke Ehlers, Fabrice Leggeri +2 · PfE

   Aggiunto: 104b. Calls for EU-funded NGOs to refrain from political activities aimed at influencing electoral outcomes or the democratic choice of voters; stresses that NGOs must not be used as instruments of electoral interference or indirect political campaigning, and calls for effective transparency and safeguards to prevent EU funding from being used for such purposes;

10. Emendamento 11Respinta

    Citation 70 a (new)

    Presentato da Hanna Gedin, Jonas Sjöstedt · The Left

    Aggiunto: – having regard to the Code of Conduct for Members of the European Parliament regarding integrity and transparency,

11. Emendamento 15Respinta

    Paragraph 6 a (new)

    Presentato da Danilo Della Valle · The Left

    Aggiunto: 6a. Stresses that the proposed European Centre for Democratic Resilience should operate on the basis of a clearly defined mandate, transparent governance, appropriate democratic oversight and robust safeguards on fundamental rights; stresses that the Centre should primarily facilitate coordination, knowledge-sharing and independent analysis and should not acquire operational or monitoring functions that could affect the exercise of fundamental rights;

12. Emendamento 16Respinta

    Paragraph 24 a (new)

    Presentato da Manon Aubry · The Left

    Aggiunto: 24a. Condemns any interference by Israeli authorities in democratic processes, including attempts to influence electoral campaigns and elections in Member States, such as those reported during the French local elections of March 2026; calls for the publication of all reports and findings concerning such interference, in order to ensure transparency, accountability and the protection of democratic sovereignty;

13. Emendamento 17Respinta

    Paragraph 32 a (new)

    Presentato da Danilo Della Valle · The Left

    Aggiunto: 32a. Highlights the importance of safeguarding anonymous public participation by fully and properly implementing the rights to privacy and to the protection of personal data that constitute an indispensable prerequisite for the exercise of other fundamental human rights; calls on the Member States to put in place appropriate and effective safeguards to protect the identity of anonymous public participants and confidential sources;

14. Emendamento 19Respinta

    Paragraph 42 a (new)

    Presentato da Danilo Della Valle · The Left

    Aggiunto: 42a. Highlights that digital public goods fundamentally contribute to the integrity of the EU’s knowledge infrastructure while at the same time empowering citizens, including young people, minorities and marginalised groups, to participate meaningfully in democratic life; calls on the Commission to acknowledge this aspect and promote the use of digital public goods as building blocks for achieving a sovereign and resilient EU digital infrastructure;

15. Emendamento 20Respinta

    Paragraph 44 a (new)

    Presentato da Danilo Della Valle · The Left

    Aggiunto: 44a. Stresses that the EU’s approach to digital surveillance and other technologies affecting fundamental rights should be consistent with and based on the same standards irrespective of the country of origin and irrespective of whether such technologies are developed, sold or used by third countries or by companies and authorities linked to strategic partners, including the United States and Israel; underlines that the protection of fundamental rights, in particular the rights to privacy and data protection, should be ensured without double standards; considers that such a consistent approach is essential to preserving the EU’s external credibility in promoting fundamental rights and democratic values, as well as the effectiveness of the European Democracy Shield;

16. Emendamento 25Respinta

    Paragraph 110 a (new)

    Presentato da Hanna Gedin, Jonas Sjöstedt · The Left

    Aggiunto: 110a. Reiterates that Members of the European Parliament must act in accordance with the Code of Conduct for Members of the European Parliament regarding integrity and transparency; recommends in this regard that an audit be performed on the general allowance of and all other forms of financial contributions to Members of the European Parliament on a yearly basis in order to increase Parliament’s transparency and trust in its Members among the citizens of the EU as well as reduce the risk of undue influence, interference or corruption;

17. Emendamento 25Respinta

    Paragraph 110 a (new)

    Presentato da Hanna Gedin, Jonas Sjöstedt · The Left

    Aggiunto: 110a. Reiterates that Members of the European Parliament must act in accordance with the Code of Conduct for Members of the European Parliament regarding integrity and transparency; recommends in this regard that an audit be performed on the general allowance of and all other forms of financial contributions to Members of the European Parliament on a yearly basis in order to increase Parliament’s transparency and trust in its Members among the citizens of the EU as well as reduce the risk of undue influence, interference or corruption;

18. Emendamento 27Respinta

    Paragraph 1

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    … mission of the European Democracy Shield should be to protect European democracy Rimosso: amid an ever-evolving threat landscape Aggiunto: from external threats and ultimately contribute to safeguarding the values enshrined in Article 2 TEU; …

19. Emendamento 28Respinta

    Paragraph 1 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 1a. Recalls that any binding or operational EU action under the European Democracy Shield requires a specific legal basis under the Treaties and must respect the principles of conferral, subsidiarity and proportionality; stresses that new technologies or evolving threats cannot in themselves create new EU competences;

20. Emendamento 29Respinta

    Paragraph 2 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 2a. Stresses that controversial, polarising or coordinated political communication does not as such constitute FIMI; insists that content-related action under the European Democracy Shield be based on objective and verifiable evidence of foreign direction, funding or operational coordination and must not extend to lawful domestic political expression, advocacy or mobilisation;

21. Emendamento 30Respinta

    Paragraph 3 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 3a. Stresses that democracy requires political contestation and the possibility of peaceful change of power; recalls that opposition, dissent and public criticism are normal features of democratic life and must be embraced rather than treated as threats merely because they challenge institutions or governing majorities; underlines that a democracy shield must protect citizens from hostile actors, not institutions from citizens;

22. Emendamento 31Respinta

    Paragraph 12 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 12a. Stresses that the Centre’s primary function should be to facilitate voluntary structured cooperation, information-sharing and coordination among existing EU and national actors, building on their mandates and expertise rather than replicating existing functions; stresses that it must not determine the truthfulness, legitimacy or political acceptability of narratives, viewpoints or opinions;

23. Emendamento 32Respinta

    Paragraph 19 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Sarah Knafo, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 19a. Opposes the establishment of a European Centre for Democratic Resilience, considering that such a structure would constitute a new permanent European agency encroaching upon Member States’ competences in the areas of internal security and public order, would add to an already crowded landscape of EU bodies, networks and platforms dealing with similar issues, and would entail operating costs to be borne by taxpayers; considers that the objectives invoked can be achieved through enhanced voluntary and intergovernmental cooperation between existing national structures, without the creation of a new EU entity with its own budget, staff and mandate;

24. Emendamento 33Respinta

    Paragraph 20 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 20a. Reminds the Commission that the Treaties do not confer on it any powers to monitor or approve elections in Member States; recalls that the Commission should act solely within the powers conferred on it by the Member States, and with due regard for national electoral legislation;

25. Emendamento 34Respinta

    Paragraph 22

    Presentato da Christine Anderson · ESN

    22. Rimosso: Condemns the targeted sanctions and attempts at coercion by the US administration against EU actors involved in shaping and enforcing Aggiunto: Considers that the EU cannot credibly denounce the US administration’s targeted sanctions against those responsible for the DSA and other digital Rimosso: regulations, in particular against a former commissioner; calls for the immediate lifting of these measures; urges the Commission and the Member States to resist such pressure, uphold EU legislation, and defend the right to self-governance and digital sovereignty; underlines that freedom of expression is a fundamental right in the EU and a core value shared with the United States and like-minded partners across the democratic world; stresses that political and trade considerations, as well as pressure from third countries or large technology companies, should not unduly influence the enforcement of EU digital legislation; stresses that decisions concerning the application of EU digital rules must be guided solely by EU law and the protection of democratic interests, and that the EU, as an open and rules-based single market, retains the sovereign right to regulate its economic activity in line with democratic values and international commitments; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that the protective and redress mechanisms of EU digital legislation are shielded from any interference that could compromise their independence or effectiveness, and to establish robust safeguards against such risks; Aggiunto: legislation, including a former commissioner, while itself imposing restrictive measures on third-country officials because their domestic policies diverge from EU preferences; calls for a consistent rejection of sanctions used to punish lawful legislative or regulatory choices;

26. Emendamento 35Respinta

    Paragraph 25 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 25a. Stresses that crisis protocols and rapid-response mechanisms must remain exceptional, time-limited and fully traceable; insists that such protocols and mechanisms have a clear legal basis, be subject to effective parliamentary oversight, ensure that all requests or referrals to platforms are recorded and provide affected persons with access to redress; rejects permanent monitoring or pre-emptive intervention in lawful democratic debate;

27. Emendamento 36Respinta

    Paragraph 29 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson · ESN

    Aggiunto: 29a. Notes with concern that Russia has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activity and placed him on an international wanted list; recalls the broader context of Russian pressure on Telegram over content removal and access to user data; condemns the misuse of criminal law to coerce platforms into political censorship or mass surveillance;

28. Emendamento 37Respinta

    Paragraph 29 b (new)

    Presentato da Sarah Knafo, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 29b. Insists that the application of the DSA and the designation of a platform as a very large online platform must be based exclusively on objective and quantitative criteria, in particular the number of active users, and not on the nature of the political opinions expressed on that platform; reiterates that the fight against foreign interference must never serve as a pretext for censoring lawful political content, including content critical of the EU institutions;

29. Emendamento 38Respinta

    Paragraph 34 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 34a. Warns against de facto internet censorship through overly far-reaching measures; stresses that the European Democracy Shield must not be used to suppress lawful political dissent or confer on public authorities the power to determine permissible political views; recalls that measures affecting the visibility, ranking or dissemination of lawful content may interfere with the right to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority, guaranteed by Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and must satisfy the requirements of legality, necessity and proportionality under Article 52 thereof;

30. Emendamento 39Respinta

    Paragraph 48 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 48a. Notes that fact-checking organisations receiving EU funding may be called upon to assess claims concerning the institutions financing them; calls for full disclosure of their public and private funding, governance and methodologies, and for safeguards ensuring their political, financial and editorial independence;

31. Emendamento 40Respinta

    Paragraph 48 b (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 48b. Rejects the institutionalisation of ‘prebunking’ or predictive narrative intervention; stresses that democratic resilience requires citizens to evaluate competing claims and that public authorities must not seek to neutralise lawful narratives before they circulate;

32. Emendamento 41Respinta

    Paragraph 48 c (new)

    Presentato da Sarah Knafo, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 48c. Stresses that fact-checking must, under no circumstances, serve as an automatic basis for the removal, demotion or demonetisation of lawful content, and that any such decision must always fall within the remit of an independent judicial authority rather than private bodies financed by the institutions whose activities they are supposed to assess;

33. Emendamento 42Respinta

    Paragraph 53 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 53a. Stresses that EU institutions are themselves participants in the information environment through public communication, funding and awareness campaigns; emphasises that such activities and the funding of media and civil society must remain transparent and politically neutral and not be conditional on supporting the Commission’s contested policy preferences;

34. Emendamento 43Respinta

    Paragraph 56 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 56a. Calls for full transparency regarding EU, national and third-country funding of civil society organisations, think tanks and umbrella organisations involved in democratic-resilience activities, including amounts, intermediaries, beneficiaries and purposes; stresses that transparency rules must apply equally and proportionately;

35. Emendamento 44Respinta

    Paragraph 56 b (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson · ESN

    Aggiunto: 56b. Notes with concern the structural and personnel links between the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) and Türkiye’s Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), including imams employed by the Turkish State; calls for full transparency regarding DITIB’s governance, financing, personnel and instructions from third-country authorities; calls for the completion of the agreed phase-out of Turkish state-employed imams; stresses that public funding and participation in consultative structures should be conditional on organisational independence from third-country governments, with full respect for freedom of religion;

36. Emendamento 45Respinta

    Paragraph 61

    Presentato da Christine Anderson · ESN

    … of the knowledge acquired in Ukraine about the conduct of modern warfare; Aggiunto: condemns the attempted explosive-drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport, which the German Government has attributed to actors acting on behalf of Russian state agencies; calls for a coordinated response and stronger protection of critical aviation infrastructure;

37. Emendamento 46Respinta

    Paragraph 78 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson · ESN

    Aggiunto: 78a. Condemns violence, intimidation and attacks against police officers and other law-enforcement personnel; stresses that attacks on their integrity and safety are attacks on democracy itself;

38. Emendamento 47Respinta

    Paragraph 78 b (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson · ESN

    Aggiunto: 78b. Regrets that the Commission does not state whether it recognises Hamas’s strategic communication as FIMI or whether the EEAS specifically monitors Hamas as a FIMI actor1a; calls on the EEAS to systematically monitor, attribute and expose Hamas-led social-media information operations targeting audiences in the EU and to report regularly to Parliament; 1a Answer of 24July 2025 to Written Question E-002236/2025.

39. Emendamento 48Respinta

    Paragraph 78 c (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 78c. Notes that the United States designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organisation on 22 September 2025; condemns politically motivated violence committed by organisations and networks operating under the Antifa label; considers activities under this label to be an international phenomenon that shows both signs of international coordination and hence foreign interference; calls on the Member States to investigate identifiable Antifa organisations and networks suspected of terrorist acts and on the Council to place on the EU terrorist list organisations that meet the criteria of the Council Common Position on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism1a; ____________________ 1a Council Common Position of 27 December 2001 on the application of specific measures to combat terrorism (OJ L 344, 28.12.2001, p. 93 ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/compos/2001/931/oj).

40. Emendamento 49Respinta

    Paragraph 79 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson · ESN

    Aggiunto: 79a. Stresses the importance of mapping networks of Islamist organisations, training elected officials and administrations, protecting independent research and improving due-diligence mechanisms; calls for particular scrutiny of foreign funding from third countries promoting illiberal objectives;

41. Emendamento 50Respinta

    Paragraph 79 b (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson · ESN

    Aggiunto: 79b. Notes with grave concern that criminal investigations in several Member States indicate that Hamas has established operational structures in Europe involving weapons depots and preparations for attacks against Jewish, Israeli and Western targets; calls for intensified intelligence and law-enforcement cooperation to identify and dismantle Hamas networks, logistics, financing and online recruitment in the EU;

42. Emendamento 51Respinta

    Paragraph 80

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    … to exert political pressure on front-line Member States and on the EU; Rimosso: underlines that such practices also represent a grave abuse of vulnerable persons who may be entitled to international protection and should not adversely affect the right to seek asylum; Aggiunto: urges the Commission to propose further legislation enabling Member States, in cases of instrumentalisation, to refuse access to asylum procedures at the external border, in accordance with EU and international law; notes the specific provisions on the instrumentalisation of migration recently included in … area and ensuring full respect for the fundamental values of the EU; Aggiunto: calls for EU funding for physical border infrastructure requested by affected Member States; calls for rapid operational support from Frontex;

43. Emendamento 51Respinta

    Paragraph 80

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    … to exert political pressure on front-line Member States and on the EU; Rimosso: underlines that such practices also represent a grave abuse of vulnerable persons who may be entitled to international protection and should not adversely affect the right to seek asylum; Aggiunto: urges the Commission to propose further legislation enabling Member States, in cases of instrumentalisation, to refuse access to asylum procedures at the external border, in accordance with EU and international law; notes the specific provisions on the instrumentalisation of migration recently included in … area and ensuring full respect for the fundamental values of the EU; Aggiunto: calls for EU funding for physical border infrastructure requested by affected Member States; calls for rapid operational support from Frontex;

44. Emendamento 52Respinta

    Paragraph 80 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson · ESN

    Aggiunto: 80a. Condemns the July 2026 mass crossing into Ceuta as a hybrid attack against Spain and the EU’s external border; calls for a full investigation into its coordination through social media and any involvement by third-country authorities, and for solidarity with Spain in securing the EU’s external border;

45. Emendamento 53Respinta

    Paragraph 99

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    99. Rimosso: Expresses its strong disagreement with the recent Aggiunto: Welcomes the recognition in the 2025 US National Security Rimosso: Strategy, in particular its negative characterisation of the EU and its challenges and risks, and the vision of international relations that is based on spheres of influence; condemns any attempts to influence or undermine democratic processes in the EU; stresses the importance of safeguarding the integrity of EU institutions and EU decision-making; expresses concerns about the fact that certain elements of the strategy fall significantly short in adequately addressing the threat posed by Russia, notably for European and hence also for American security; regrets, furthermore, the strategy’s flawed assessment of the EU as a political system and its groundless adversarial stance towards the EU; considers that the strategy further reinforces the imperative for the EU to advance its strategic autonomy, reduce dependencies and diversify partnerships; Aggiunto: Strategy that Europe remains strategically and culturally vital to the United States, that transatlantic trade is a pillar of mutual prosperity and that the United States needs a strong Europe; considers this a firm basis for renewed transatlantic cooperation between sovereign democratic allies;

46. Emendamento 54Respinta

    Paragraph 107 a (new)

    Presentato da Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 107a. Recalls that, subject to the Treaties and EU law, the organisation, conduct and supervision of national elections remain the responsibility of the Member States; rejects any mandate for EU bodies to monitor or assess the lawful political positions or speech of parties, candidates or elected representatives;

47. Emendamento 55Respinta

    Paragraph 115 a (new)

    Presentato da Sarah Knafo, Marcin Sypniewski · ESN

    Aggiunto: 115a. Recalls that unanimity within the Council in matters relating to the common foreign and security policy, including for the adoption of sanctions, remains a fundamental guarantee of Member States’ sovereignty and of the democratic legitimacy of decisions affecting their national interests;

48. Emendamento 56Approvata

    Recital BT a (new)

    Presentato da Nathalie Loiseau, Gilles Boyer, Grégory Allione +37 · Members

    Aggiunto: BTa. whereas operations to manipulate information have already been detected against three candidates for France’s 2027 presidential election and have been attributed to Russia;

49. Emendamento 57Approvata

    Paragraph 5 a (new)

    Presentato da Nathalie Loiseau, Gilles Boyer, Grégory Allione +39 · Members

    Aggiunto: 5a. Condemns third-country interference in certain outermost regions and overseas countries and territories, where the impact may be further compounded by their isolation and geographical distance from the European continent;

50. Emendamento 58Respinta

    Paragraph 4 a (new)

    Presentato da Beata Szydło, Mariusz Kamiński · ECR

    Aggiunto: 4a. Stresses that Russia constitutes the principal and most persistent state threat to the security, sovereignty and democratic resilience of Europe; underlines that Russia’s aggression, coercion and interference cannot be understood as isolated consequences of the current regime, but form part of a long-standing pattern of Russian imperial policy, manifested under Tsarist, Soviet and Putinist rule through military aggression, violations of sovereignty, political subversion and attempts to dominate neighbouring states; considers that European policy towards Russia must therefore be based on strategic realism rather than on recurring illusions of normalisation or a ‘reset’; calls for an honest assessment of the political, economic and institutional decisions that have led to Europe’s excessive dependence on Russia, including past attempts to pursue privileged political and economic relations with Moscow despite repeated warnings from Member States most exposed to Russian aggression; stresses that such policies have undermined European solidarity, contributed to strategic dependencies and provided the Kremlin with additional resources and leverage; insists that there must be no return to ‘business as usual’ with Russia and that any future relationship must be conditional on a fundamental and verified change in Russian conduct, full respect for international law and the sovereignty of neighbouring states;

51. Emendamento 60Respinta

    Paragraph 4 c (new)

    Presentato da Beata Szydło, Mariusz Kamiński · ECR

    Aggiunto: 4c. Underlines that the experience and threat assessments of Member States that have for decades warned against Russian imperialism, particularly Poland and the Baltic States, must be taken seriously in shaping European security policy; stresses that deterrence, resilience, strong national defence capabilities, secure critical infrastructure and unwavering support for states threatened or attacked by Russia must take precedence over short-term economic interests or attempts to accommodate the Kremlin; concludes that defending European democracy requires confronting the source of the threat rather than repeating policies that have underestimated it;

52. Emendamento 65Respinta

    Paragraph 13 d (new)

    Presentato da Beata Szydło, Mariusz Kamiński · ECR

    Aggiunto: 13d. Recalls the controversy surrounding the Commission’s defence of Pablo González, alias Pavel Rubtsov, who was identified by the Polish authorities as an agent of Russian military intelligence acting under journalistic cover; regrets that, despite numerous calls for it to do so, the Commission never corrected its unfounded and unjust accusations against the Polish Government in its rule of law report; insists that the credibility of the EU’s rule-of-law and democratic-resilience policies requires identical standards, legal criteria and scrutiny, regardless of which political forces govern a Member State;

53. Emendamento 72Respinta

    Paragraph 132 a (new)

    Presentato da Beata Szydło, Mariusz Kamiński · ECR

    Aggiunto: 132a. Stresses that the credibility of the EU’s efforts to counter foreign interference, corruption and malign influence depends first and foremost on its willingness to address vulnerabilities within its own institutions with the same determination and transparency that it expects from the Member States; recalls that foreign interference does not operate solely through disinformation campaigns, cyberattacks or external influence operations, but may also exploit corruption, bribery, conflicts of interest, opaque lobbying, revolving-door practices, inadequate scrutiny of external contacts and weaknesses in the control of EU funding; recalls, in this regard, the serious institutional vulnerabilities exposed by the ‘Qatargate’ corruption scandal, which demonstrated the capacity of third-country interests to seek influence within Parliament through financial inducements, intermediaries and covert networks; further recalls the conviction of former MEPs for accepting bribes in return for activities promoting pro-Russian interests, including parliamentary interventions, which constitutes a particularly serious example of foreign financial influence reaching directly into parliamentary activity; considers that such cases must be treated not merely as individual instances of misconduct but as warnings concerning the resilience, integrity and security of the EU’s own democratic institutions; draws particular attention, in this context, to the money-laundering charges brought against former EU Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, and to reports of his close contacts with Russian nationals, including a sanctioned oligarch close to Putin, at a time when the Commissioner was also responsible for the implementation of sanctions; calls on the Commission to cooperate with the relevant authorities and services and to take its own steps to clarify how the allegations against Commissioner Reynders may have affected the exercise of his duties, including whether they undermined the EU’s policy towards Russia and whether they contributed to unjustified attacks against Poland, a frontline Member State and a key country in supporting Ukraine; strongly condemns revolving-door practices whereby former senior political office-holders assume remunerated positions or advisory roles in state-controlled companies or structures linked to authoritarian third countries, as illustrated by the involvement of former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder with the Russian energy sector; stresses that such relationships may create dependencies, conflicts of interest and opportunities for foreign leverage and may severely damage public confidence in European decision-making;

54. Emendamento 73Respinta

    Paragraph 132 b (new)

    Presentato da Beata Szydło, Mariusz Kamiński · ECR

    Aggiunto: 132b. Calls on Parliament, the Commission and all EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies to conduct regular assessments of their exposure to corruption, covert foreign influence and conflicts of interest and to ensure appropriate follow-up where vulnerabilities are identified; underlines that democratic resilience cannot be credible if allegations or cases involving the EU institutions themselves are downplayed while increasingly intrusive standards of transparency, integrity and democratic scrutiny are demanded from Member States; insists that the same standards of accountability, transparency and institutional integrity must apply at EU and national levels and that protecting European democracy must begin with ensuring the integrity of the institutions that claim to be responsible for defending it;

55. Emendamento 78Respinta

    Recital BZ

    Presentato da Mariusz Kamiński, Beata Szydło · ECR

    … and the downplaying of the threat posed by Russia and China; whereas Aggiunto: for decades the EU and certain Member States have pursued, and sought to impose on other Member States, misguided and dangerous policies of economic, political and even military engagement with Russia and China, disregarding repeated warnings from the United States and several Central and Eastern European Member States; whereas these policies resulted in serious energy and economic dependencies on authoritarian regimes, contributed to the security crises Europe faces today, and weakened Europe’s strategic resilience; whereas the Nord Stream pipelines stand as a particularly striking example of these shameful policy failures; whereas the National Security Strategy also includes critical references to alleged democratic shortcomings in certain EU Member Rimosso: States and announces actions akin to foreign interference; Aggiunto: States, which the EU institutions have, for ideological and political reasons, failed to acknowledge and lacked the courage to address on their merits; whereas the strategy frames global developments largely in terms of economic nationalism and strategic interests, revealing a more transactional approach to traditional Rimosso: allies and thus questioning the principles that have underpinned US foreign policy for decades; Aggiunto: allies, whom the United States has for years, largely without success, urged to fulfil their Alliance commitments and make meaningful investments in their own security and defence;

56. Emendamento 80Respinta

    Recital CL

    Presentato da Mariusz Kamiński, Beata Szydło · ECR

    … and their staff have access to sensitive information and documents within Parliament; Aggiunto: whereas a Russian influence network operating in and around Parliament was exposed following an investigation by the Polish security services and their international partners; whereas the existence and methods of this network were subsequently confirmed by the conviction of former MEP Nathan Gill by a British court for accepting bribes in exchange for speeches in the European Parliament serving Russian interests; whereas, according to the findings of the Polish services, Russian operatives paid a network involving several MEPs to deliver speeches written on behalf of Russian interests and to participate in initiatives orchestrated by them, including the observation of sham elections and referendums in Russian-occupied territories;

57. Emendamento 82Respinta

    Paragraph 65

    Presentato da Mariusz Kamiński, Beata Szydło · ECR

    … accompanied by active monitoring, surveillance and response in cooperation with relevant third-country Rimosso: partners; Aggiunto: partners, including Taiwan’s experience in protecting critical undersea infrastructure; draws attention to the inadequacy of the existing international legal framework for attributing such acts and holding accountable both their perpetrators and those who order, direct or sponsor them, particularly when attacks are carried out beyond territorial waters or through vessels sailing under flags of convenience; stresses that the current system for enforcing accountability for the deliberate destruction or sabotage of critical undersea infrastructure remains insufficient and calls for concrete efforts to close these legal and enforcement gaps;

58. Emendamento 86Respinta

    Paragraph 115

    Presentato da Geadis Geadi, Emmanouil Fragkos, Galato Alexandraki +1 · ECR

    … markets and financial systems, and other effective, robust and impactful restrictive measures; Rimosso: reiterates its call on the Council to gradually transition to qualified majority voting for decisions in areas of Aggiunto: stresses that decisions on sanctions under the common foreign and security policy Rimosso: such as sanctions; Aggiunto: should continue to be taken by unanimity, as this constitutes an essential safeguard of the sovereign equality of the Member States, ensures that the vital national interests and security concerns of each Member State are duly taken into account and strengthens the legitimacy, cohesion and durability of common EU action;

59. Emendamento 88Respinta

    Paragraph 2 a (new)

    Presentato da Cristian Terheş · ECR

    Aggiunto: 2a. Recognises that ‘reflexive control’, a concept originating in Soviet military theory and defined as the deliberate shaping of an adversary’s decision-making environment through the transmission of carefully calibrated information, seeks to induce the target to adopt decisions that advance the influencing actor’s strategic objectives; notes with concern that the Russian Federation has incorporated such techniques into its broader hybrid influence operations targeting democratic institutions, electoral processes and policy formation; stresses that these practices, which extend beyond conventional disinformation, exploit cognitive biases, institutional vulnerabilities and cultural narratives in order to distort perception, encourage miscalculation and influence outcomes without the use of overt coercion, thereby undermining rational decision-making and democratic governance;

60. Emendamento 92Respinta

    Paragraph 48

    Presentato da Cristian Terheş · ECR

    … credible and effective, fact-checking organisations must uphold strict standards of political neutrality, Rimosso: independence from online platform providers, and methodological objectivity; Aggiunto: methodological objectivity and independence in their editorial conclusions from governments, political parties and online platform providers; calls on fact-checking organisations receiving EU funding to disclose their funding sources, methodology, conflicts of interest and correction procedures; stresses that publicly funded fact-checking organisations must not exercise regulatory or content-removal powers and that their assessments must not be used as a substitute for determinations by competent regulatory or judicial authorities; emphasises the importance of collaboration between fact-checkers, OSINT researchers, journalists, communicators and …

61. Emendamento 94Respinta

    Paragraph 88 c (new)

    Presentato da Cristian Terheş · ECR

    Aggiunto: 88c. Underlines the importance of strengthening faith-based engagement and dialogue as part of the EU’s broader resilience strategy, promoting structured and transparent cooperation between the EU, the Member States and legitimate religious actors in order to counter hybrid threats, disinformation and the instrumentalisation of religion, while fully respecting freedom of religion or belief and pluralism;