On the evening of February 1, Belgium finally shut down its most controversial nuclear reactor "Tihange 2" near Liège after 40 years of operation. The nuclear power plant, which is located around 60 km from Aachen (North Rhine-Westphalia), had been on standby for years due to safety risks such as thousands of small cracks in the reactor pressure vessels and incidents...
Ripa: "European independence in semiconductors 'Made in Saarland'" (Ensdorf, 01.02.2023) Together with the German automotive supplier ZF, the US company Wolfspeed is today presenting its plans to build the world's largest factory for the production of silicon carbide semiconductors. The factory is to be built on an old power plant site...
The Élysée Treaty is 60 years old and it is time for Germany and France to work more closely together again in the key policy areas of our time. This includes energy and climate policy in particular! The Franco-German partnership was and is undoubtedly the driving force behind European unification, and it will remain so in...
Ripa: "We need much stricter sanctions against corrupt MEPs" (Strasbourg/18.01.2023) Today, the European Parliament elected a new Vice-President of the European Parliament. Luxembourg MEP Marc Angel from the S&D Group succeeds Greek MEP Eva Kaili, who was dismissed in December on suspicion of corruption by...
Ripa: "Europe must finally take responsibility for its own mountains of waste!" (Strasbourg/17.01.2023) In a vote on waste exports, the European Parliament today voted in Strasbourg to stop exporting plastic waste in the near future and to only export remaining waste materials to third countries in strictly controlled quantities. The European Parliament has thus voted in favor of a...
MEP Manuela Ripa took part in an Attac Saar event in December on the topic of packaging waste and, in particular, how to avoid it. As part of Attac Saar's "Boycott Qatar 2022" series of events, a "Kaffeeklatsch Europa" was held on the 3rd Sunday in Advent at the Haus der...
MEP Manuela Ripa visited the President of the Saarland State Parliament in December. After an interesting exchange on current topics, she also signed the state parliament's Golden Book. Further information can be found in the Instagram post of the Saarland State Parliament: ...
MEP Manuela Ripa welcomed two groups of pupils from the Saarland as visitors to the European Parliament in Strasbourg in December. On Tuesday of the plenary week, the 12th grade politics course at Von-der-Leyen-Gymnasium Blieskastels took a closer look at the EU and talked to Ripa about European politics,...
Ripa: "No habitat must be lost!" (Brussels/20.12.2022) On Monday, the UN World Conference on Nature in Montreal came to an end with the adoption of a final declaration. In it, important measures for species conservation were adopted. For example, at least 30 percent of the world's land and sea areas are to be placed under protection by 2030....
Ripa: "The agreement will reorient EU climate protection policy - new global standards will be set with stricter and expanded emissions trading and the introduction of a CO2 border adjustment mechanism" (Brussels/19.12.2022) On Sunday morning, the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission reached an agreement on the revision of the European Emissions Trading System (ETS)...