The undemocratic percentage hurdle for the European elections must not be introduced! Last week, in a session on an outdated EU electoral law reform from 2018, the German Bundestag voted in favor of the introduction of a blocking clause, which is a pure abuse of power by the traffic light government, because they are purely curtailing the will of the voters in order to secure minimal gains in...
What a battle for nature conservation! The committee room was bursting at the seams. In today's vote by the Environment Committee, the Christian Democrats wanted to vote against the renaturation law in an alliance with right-wing parties. Fortunately, they did not succeed! After hours of voting, the final decision had to be...
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...
Whether floods like the devastating natural disaster in Italy or increasing water scarcity, which is affecting more and more people, plants and animals in the EU: We need to manage our European water resources better! It is not only southern Europe that is affected, but also countries such as France and Germany...
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...
This week I had a group of visitors from the Gymnasium Merzig and the Copernicus-Gymnasium Norderstedt visiting the European Parliament in Brussels! In addition to my parliamentary priorities and my everyday life as an MEP, we mainly discussed current European policy issues. I had a lot of fun giving you an insight into...
Markus Söder likes to pretend to be the father of the country - but for whom? Apparently for the #sugar industry...
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...