News - Manuela Ripa

21 Sep. Manuela Ripa (ÖDP) welcomes the proposal for one billion euros in additional funding for EU border regions such as Saarland

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Ripa: "The 'EU Borderland Billion' can advance crucial cross-border environmental and climate protection projects in Saarland" Saarbrücken, 22.09.2022 - The European Parliament has adopted a report entitled "Border regions in the EU: real laboratories of European integration" with proposals for solutions to the economic problems in border regions. Among other things, it calls for...

21 Sep. Stop products from forced labor

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MEP Ripa (ÖDP) calls for reversal of the burden of proof The European Commission has announced that products manufactured with the help of forced labor may no longer be sold in the EU in the future. The focus here is particularly on China, where there have long been reports of blatant human rights violations...

14 Sep. MEP Manuela Ripa on Ursula von der Leyen's speech on the state of the European Union

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Ripa: "Good approaches, but many important issues ignored" (Strasbourg/14.09.2022) Today, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered her annual State of the European Union address to the European Parliament. She began by welcoming the Ukrainian President's wife Olena Selenska, who was present in Parliament. Von der Leyen...

13 Sep. MEP Manuela Ripa (ÖDP) Vote in the EU Parliament on the regulation against deforestation and forest degradation

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Ripa: "EU bears great responsibility for global deforestation" (Strasbourg/13.09.2022) Today, the European Parliament adopted a regulation against deforestation and forest degradation by a large majority. This means that a legal framework is now in place to ensure that raw materials and products sold in the EU are not linked to deforestation and...

13 Sep. MEP Manuela Ripa on the delay to the SVolt plans at Linslerfeld

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Ripa: "Brownfield sites are attractive for business relocations" (Saarbücken/12.09.2022) The Chinese battery manufacturer SVolt has announced that it is postponing its plans to build a factory for electric car batteries on the Linslerfeld site in Überherrn, Saarland, by several years. Battery production is now scheduled to start in 2027/2028. Until now, SVolt had assumed...

02 Sep. MEP Manuela Ripa (ÖDP) calls for a coherent soil protection strategy

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Ripa: "Climate change is putting additional pressure on our soils" (Brussels/02.09.2022) This week's announcement by the German Weather Service that the summer of 2022 in Germany was the sixth driest since weather records began is an opportunity for MEP Manuela Ripa of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) to draw attention to the dramatically...

31 Aug. MEP Manuela Ripa (ÖDP) on the new study by the "Club of Rome"

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Ripa: "The clock has already reached five past twelve for our world" Manuela Ripa, MEP of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP), takes the new Club of Rome report as an opportunity to call for a radical turnaround in environmental, economic and social policy. The authors of the study...

26 Aug. MEP Manuela Ripa (ÖDP) draws attention to the dramatic situation of animal shelters

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(Saarbrücken/25.08.2022) Manuela Ripa MEP from the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) is concerned about reports of overcrowded animal shelters and the associated suffering for animals. Apparently, many people have acquired a pet during the pandemic and are now overwhelmed with caring for it. Also...

11 July ÖDP for EU-binding labeling of meat products

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MEP Manuela Ripa criticizes key issues paper by Cem Özdemir (Brussels, 11.07.2022) "For years, I of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) have been calling for the introduction of mandatory animal welfare labeling including a pictorial representation of the husbandry conditions. Together with Klaus Buchner, my predecessor in the EU Parliament, I have developed the concept of an EU-wide label that...

08 July Greens now in favor of controversial free trade agreement

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"Both CETA and the Energy Charter Treaty are climate killers!" (Brussels/08.07.2022) After years of campaigning by environmental associations and political parties such as the ÖDP, the fight against the planned European-Canadian free trade agreement CETA unfortunately seems to be lost. Alliance 90/The Greens have announced that they will no longer block ratification. This paves the way...