Many thanks to the group of visitors from the Saarlouis district branch of the Education and Science Trade Union (GEW Saarland)! We talked about my parliamentary work and my priorities: Animal welfare, consumer protection, environmental and nature conservation and health policy. In the SANT subcommittee of the Environment and Health Committee, I am primarily committed to...

We are continuing our #NichtOhneMeineStimme campaign against the anti-democratic #percentage threshold! Together with politicians from ÖDP, VOLTDeutschland, Piratenpartei, DiePartei, Humanisten and Mehr Demokratie, we have sent the open letter to the Federal President and members of the Bundestag. Over 100 elected representatives of the ÖDP have signed! The letter can be found...

Against the stealing of our votes! MEP Manuela Ripa (ÖDP) and ÖDP Chairwoman Charlotte Schmid sign open protest letter against percentage hurdle in European elections(Strasbourg/12.06.2023) At the end of May, the Bundestag debated the EU draft law for the first time, which aims to introduce a blocking clause of two percent in elections to the European Parliament. This...

Today is WorldOceansDay. We need to preserve the largest interconnected ecosystem on earth, because we need healthy oceans! But our actions are increasingly jeopardizing the health of our oceans. We must therefore act now to protect the biodiversity and ecosystem of our oceans! Take a look at my...

Attention: Nature urgently needs our support On World Food Security Day, one of the issues is how we can feed the world's growing population even in times of crisis. To do this, we need an intact natural environment. But we are currently destroying our environment: over 70% of our soils are in an unhealthy state. Biodiversity...

The motto of this year's World Environment Day is Beat-Plastic-Pollution, and the state of our natural world is deteriorating ever faster as a result of the climate and biodiversity crisis - and these crises are man-made. With various factors such as pesticide use, deforestation and, last but not least, the massive problem of plastic pollution, this development is due to our own...