Tomorrow is Nature Conservation Day! This day reminds us how important it is to protect and conserve our livelihoods and thus our precious nature. Unfortunately, we are increasingly seeing the dangers to which our natural world is exposed: climate change, species extinction, pollution and overexploitation of natural resources....
On Sunday, July 30, 2023, everything will revolve around animal welfare and nature conservation in the German-French Garden in Saarbrücken. From 10 am to 6 pm, the major event "Quo vadis? Vision Animal and Nature Conservation Saar" will take place here. As a Member of the European Parliament for the ÖDP - the Nature Conservation Party and Vice-President of the Animal Welfare Group in the European...
We need a global moratorium on seabed mining. That is why, as an MEP of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP - the Nature Conservation Party), I have signed the call by parliamentarians for a moratorium on seabed mining. Setting this signal is important in view of the meeting of the International Seabed Authority on...
This week, Kirsten Elisabeth Jäckel from the Federal Executive Committee of the ÖDP and Chair of the BAK Women visited me in the European Parliament for three days. They were very eventful days, where she looked over my shoulder as I worked and where we took part in a demonstration against the...
No compromises: Stop a possible re-approval of glyphosate! The authorization of glyphosate actually ends on 15.12.2023. However, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has now found in an opinion on July 6 that the total herbicide glyphosate is safe. EFSA sees no "critical problem areas" in the use of...
Unfortunately, things are not looking good for the fight against the mountains of plastic we are accumulating in Europe and around the world.Today in the Industry Committee (ITRE) we voted on the European Parliament's opinion on the revised Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, for which I am shadow rapporteur for my Greens/EFA group.The...
The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) StopFinningEU has become the 8th initiative of its kind to pass the threshold of 1 million signatures in over 7 Member States and has been submitted to the European Commission. It now had to respond to this. The ECI is directed against the brutal practice of depriving sharks of their...
In addition to the major vote on nature conservation (renaturation law), a number of other important decisions were taken during this plenary week of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. For a strong Ecodesign Directive and thus for more consumer protection. The aim: greater durability, recyclability and energy efficiency of goods by taking ecological factors into account right from the...
Small victory for nature conservation! It was an intense week in Strasbourg with many actions to draw attention to the important vote on the #renaturation law. And we were able to prevent this central pillar of European climate and nature conservation policy from being torn down! Despite a massive disinformation campaign by the alleged Christian Democrats, we were able to...
