Next week week, more than four thousand people will take part in the Beyond Growth 2023 Conference, both on site and online. This is a cross-party initiative taking place at the European Parliament in European Parliament in Brussels and organized by us, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) from five different political groups and non-attached MEPs. MEPs, together...
Some people are systematically excluded from any political representation. An unjust situation that needs to be changed. By Lorena López de Lacalle, EFA President and Manuela Ripa, MEP All European citizens are equal. That is the fundamental principle of European democracy. But when it comes to representing their political interests...
No EU funding for animal suffering! My protest continues: the Spanish large-scale fishery NuevaPescanova still wants to build a highly problematic octopus farm on the Canary Islands - with EU funding! On the Spanish islands, one million animals a year are to be crammed into the smallest, permanently illuminated space in industrial factory farming. This...
'International Press Freedom Day Freedom of the press is of crucial importance for a lively, diverse and democratic formation of opinion and everyone has the right to freedom of expression. Although we in Germany often take freedom of expression and freedom of the press for granted, it must be actively defended time and again. It must be ensured...
Wasting resources must stop! Instead, a circular economy & responsible, sustainable use of our natural resources! If the world consumed its ecological resources like Germany, the planet's limits would already be reached today - under these conditions, we would need three earths that we don't have! Earth Overshoot Day will...
Yes to fewer pesticides and more nature conservation! Fewer pesticides endanger food production? Exactly the other way around! VP leader Manfred Weber wants to commit the European People's Party (EPP) to rejecting the pesticide regulation being discussed in the European Parliament at its party conference in Munich today. Among other things, it is about halving...
Mega-authorization of chromium trioxide repealed! Hooray - after more than four years, we in the European Parliament have finally won the battle against the mega-authorization of chromium trioxide under REACH! This means that a highly toxic substance has finally been taken off the market and another important step towards greater consumer protection has been taken! Since...
The Saar Fishing Association visits me in the European Parliament Many thanks to the Fischereiverband Saar from my home region, the Saarland, for the visit to the European Parliament! We have many common issues that we deal with, such as water protection, nature conservation and species protection. We also talked about cormorants and...
Nuclear power must NOT be an option for the future! 37 years ago today, a nuclear disaster occurred in Chernobyl that caused great suffering to the people in this region and throughout Europe and irreversible environmental damage. Never before had such large quantities of long-lived nuclear waste been released in a single...
Fast fashion must finally make way for a worker- and environmentally friendly textile industry! Fast fashion is not a sustainable model! Even 10 years after the devastating collapse of the Rana Plaza textile factory in Bangladesh with over 1100 deaths and numerous injuries, the EU is still a major consumer of fast fashion. This terrible event showed...