Verbatim report of proceedings

Wednesday, 10 March 2010 - Strasbourg

7.10. The implementation of the European Security Strategy and the Common Security and Defence Policy (A7-0026/2010, Arnaud Danjean) (vote)

- Before the vote on Amendment 5:

  Reinhard Bütikofer, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. – (DE) Mr President, I would like to propose a vote on an amendment to this motion, which I will now read out.

‘Calls on the High Representative/Vice-President of the Commission, the Council and the Member States to overcome the imbalance between civilian and military planning capabilities’, and delete the rest, because the rest has already been included in the text.

(The oral amendment was not accepted)

- Before the vote on Amendment 34:

  Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the S&D Group. – Mr President, colleagues have introduced an amendment which we could agree with if we combine it with the original amendment. I understand the colleagues and we share the view that our strategic decision should not depend on Russia, but, on the other hand, Russia is an important partner.

If the colleagues could agree that we take their amendment and say ‘including Russia’ – Russia is one of the members of the continental dialogue – we could agree and we could vote for this amendment.

(The oral amendment was not accepted)