Implementation of the common security and defence policy (based on the annual report from the Council to the European Parliament on the common foreign and security policy)

This own-initiative dossier concerns implementation of the common security and defence policy, based on the Council's annual report. The amendments describe an increasingly unstable security environment, citing the war in Ukraine, conflicts in Syria and Iraq, the rise of ISIS, the Libyan crisis, the terrorist threat in the Sahel, and the US 'pivot to Asia'. They call for effective use of CSDP tools, cybersecurity and maritime security, referencing NATO.