Brussels, February 12, 2021 - In the February plenary week, the EU Parliament voted on two important reports for climate and sustainability: The Circular Economy Action Plan and the Regulation establishing the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the centerpiece of the overall €750 billion recovery plan "Next Generation EU". Manuela...
Brussels, February 12, 2021 - This week, the Federal Cabinet has launched a law and an ordinance on insect protection and glyphosate phase-out at the proposal of Federal Environment Minister Svenja Schulze. The combination of the Federal Environment Ministry's Insect Protection Act and the Federal Ministry of Agriculture's Plant Protection Application Ordinance aims to phase out glyphosate by 2024.
Brussels / Saarbrücken, February 12, 2021 - Manuela Ripa, MEP of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP), met yesterday for a virtual meeting with Reinhold Jost, Saarland Minister for the Environment and Consumer Protection, and Sebastian Thul, Saarland State Secretary for the Environment and Consumer Protection. The MEP, the Minister and...
Ahead of today's World Cancer Day (February 4), the EU Commission has published the European Beating Cancer Plan with a clear commitment to better cancer prevention in Europe. However, this can only be the beginning: "We welcome the European Commission's Beating Cancer Plan to improve the quality of life of...
A cancer diagnosis means great suffering for patients and their families, with illnesses in children being particularly tragic. The EU Commission therefore presented the European Beating Cancer Plan in 2020 with the aim of reducing the burden that cancer places on patients, their families and...
Call for an economy for the common good as a solution for a long-term sustainable and fair economic system The coronavirus pandemic is threatening to increase social injustice worldwide for the first time: According to a study by the development organization Oxfam, there is a risk that the world's already precarious social imbalance will continue to worsen dramatically. "The pandemic...
ÖDP: This salami-slicing tactic is draining Berlin-Brandenburg's drinking water Tesla wants taxpayers' money for the world's largest battery factory. This news comes as a surprise to the state of Brandenburg, among others. The Tesla battery factory is to be built in Grünheide right next to the Gigafactory for electric cars. According to press reports, the Federal Ministry of Economics has allowed the US company to "provisionally start work", albeit...
The federal government has initiated a ban on chick shredding from 2022. "Far too late!", says Manuela Ripa, MEP for the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP). "Every year, 45 million male chicks are killed in this cruel, completely inhumane way. This should have been stopped a long time ago...
In an Op-Ed for the newspaper New Europe, Manuela Ripa discusses the opportunities and possibilities for the EU to make this year a year of climate opportunities. The full article (ENG) can be read here....
Fewer and fewer young people in Germany are eating meat, but meat consumption is continuing to grow worldwide. This is the key finding of the current "Meat Atlas 2021" published by the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) and the Heinrich Böll Foundation. We now urgently need a change in the system: away from...