Members of the European Parliament's Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals have sent a letter to German Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner calling for a stricter ban on wild animals in circuses. "The circus has nothing to do with the real behavior of animals", underlines Manuela...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has confirmed that EU member states have the fundamental right to introduce mandatory stunning before slaughter. This is a major and historic victory for greater animal welfare! Without stunning, slaughter processes, and slaughter in particular, are associated with unimaginable suffering for the animals. The background to this was the...
Overall declining membership figures and the Covid-19 pandemic have made it very difficult for animal shelters and animal welfare organizations in Germany this year. Since, among other things, visits from the general public are not possible or only possible to a very limited extent in the fight against the pandemic, the general understanding of the situation of...
The European Commission is providing 3.6 million euros to support the "Become a Beefatarian" campaign. The explicit aim of the campaign is to promote the sale of European beef in particular. We finally need a shift towards sustainable, organic farming if we are not to endanger our planet.
The EU wants and needs to be climate-neutral by 2050 in order to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and avert an impending climate crisis. However, the reduction of CO2 emissions must not go hand in hand with an extension of backward-looking and dangerous technologies. "The news that France has announced a public...
This morning, the EU heads of state and government agreed on a disappointing new climate target: By 2030, the European Union's net emissions are to be reduced by 55 percent compared to 1990 levels. However, the term "net emissions" only refers to an actual reduction of...
In view of the tensions in the eastern Mediterranean region, 53 MEPs from Germany and Greece have sent a joint letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel calling on her to immediately suspend the export of submarines, submarine parts and related maintenance services to Turkey. The MEP of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP), Manuela...
Brussels, December 09, 2020 - After the Administrative Court of Frankfurt/Oder stopped the further clearing of around 83 hectares of forest in favor of a Tesla plant in Brandenburg for the time being, Manuela Ripa, MEP of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP), has turned to the responsible EU Commissioner for the Environment Virginijus Sinkevičius. He should...
Every day in Germany, an area of 56 hectares is built on for settlements and infrastructure - the equivalent of around 79 soccer pitches. The German government's original goal of keeping this land consumption below 30 hectares from 2020 has therefore failed and has been postponed to 2030. That...
A new study by the European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) has now confirmed what 1.4 million Europeans demanded from the EU Commission in a successful petition: We are ready to end the cage era in European agriculture! Cage farming is devastating for the...