🐑 Behind the scenes of food production lies a harsh reality: animals in extreme confinement, environmental destruction and negative effects on human health. 📅 As part of a cross-party event, I am organizing the exhibition "Factory farming: uncovering the hidden costs" together with my colleagues, which is being organized by the @European Institute...
Together with my colleague Dario Nardella MEP, we explored the question of how sustainable agriculture with fewer pesticides is possible at the event "Towards a Just Transition: IPM, Biocontrol and the Path Beyond Pesticides" that we organized in the European Parliament. Experts from the fields of science, agriculture and...
Ripa: "We must preserve biodiversity!" (Brussels/28.02.2025) On Species Conservation Day, Manuela Ripa MEP from the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP - the Nature Conservation Party) welcomes the agreement reached at the UN Species Conference in Rome. The adoption of a multi-year financing plan means that the necessary funds are now available, in particular to...
This week I visited the Chair of Romance Philology at Saarland University. As a member of the Cultural Committee (CULT) and having grown up biculturally Italian-German, I am all the more pleased to see how much the Italian language and culture is appreciated here. I was particularly impressed by the world's leading dictionary project...
The EU Commission presented its long-announced industrial and climate strategy "Clean Industrial Deal" in Brussels today. Saarland MEP Manuela Ripa (Ecological Democratic Party / Group of the European People's Party) comments on this: "With the Clean Industrial Deal presented today, the EU is moving in the right direction. The CO2 reduction can...
https://manuela-ripa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_8004_MOV_V1.mp4 Neben meinen Büros in Brüssel und Straßburg steht mir auch ein Büro im Deutschen Bundestag zu – und genau das schaue ich mir an! 🏛️ So können wir als Ökologische Demokraten noch präsenter in Berlin vertreten sein. Direkt vor Ort können wir nun unsere politischen...
One day after the Bundestag elections with a historic voter turnout, I am shocked as an ecological democrat by the high proportion of right-wing populists in the election result.we must now stand together as democrats, i.e. make compromises, protect the rule of law, preserve democracy and do the right thing. ...
ÖDP demands consistent implementation of European air pollution control measures (Würzburg/Berlin) - "Air pollutants are hazardous to health," says Manuela Ripa, Member of the European Parliament for the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP). In the last few days in particular, worryingly high levels of pollutants have been measured over Saarland, but also over Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony. Here, the MEP of the...
https://manuela-ripa.eu/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Cult2_V1.mp4 Heute streiken Teile des Lehrpersonals an den Europäischen Schulen, um auf die bestehenden Missstände aufmerksam zu machen. Als Schattenberichterstatterin für die Europäischen Schulen habe ich meine Solidarität mit den Lehrkräften zum Ausdruck gebracht. Es besteht dringender Handlungsbedarf.Daher habe ich in der heutigen Sitzung des Kulturausschusses...
Artificial intelligence (AI) is on an unstoppable global advance and is on everyone's lips. We are experiencing great progress, but this raises questions that affect us all. 📱💻 At the AI Action Summit in Paris, huge investments worth billions were announced to boost Europe's competitiveness in the field of...