(Heiligenwald, 11.02.23) Today, MEP Manuela Ripa was a "winter helper" and helped serve food at the AWO winter café in Heiligenwald. The local fire department and the "cellar men" had cooked a typical Saarland dish: Schaales with stewed apples. Ripa is impressed by how many local people...
A historic day: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gave a moving speech in the plenary chamber of the European Parliament in Brussels this morning. It is the first time since the outbreak of Russian aggression that he has come to the EU in person. To experience him in the EU Parliament was therefore...
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...
Ripa: "European independence for 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 the site of an old power...
Why not just like this? According to media reports, a large semiconductor plant is to be built in Saarland - on an already sealed brownfield site instead of a valuable agricultural area. This is not only a great opportunity for the Saarland, but also a successful positive example of climate...
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...