Wasting resources must stop! Instead, a circular economy & responsible, sustainable use of our natural resources! If the world consumed its ecological resources like Germany, the planet's limits would already be reached today - under these conditions, we would need three earths that we don't have! Earth Overshoot Day will...
Yes to fewer pesticides and more nature conservation! Fewer pesticides endanger food production? Exactly the other way around! VP leader Manfred Weber wants to commit the European People's Party (EPP) to rejecting the pesticide regulation being discussed in the European Parliament at its party conference in Munich today. Among other things, it is about halving...
Mega-authorization of chromium trioxide repealed! Hooray - after more than four years, we in the European Parliament have finally won the battle against the mega-authorization of chromium trioxide under REACH! This means that a highly toxic substance has finally been taken off the market and another important step towards greater consumer protection has been taken! Since...
The Saar Fishing Association visits me in the European Parliament Many thanks to the Fischereiverband Saar from my home region, the Saarland, for the visit to the European Parliament! We have many common issues that we deal with, such as water protection, nature conservation and species protection. We also talked about cormorants and...
Nuclear power must NOT be an option for the future! 37 years ago today, a nuclear disaster occurred in Chernobyl that caused great suffering to the people in this region and throughout Europe and irreversible environmental damage. Never before had such large quantities of long-lived nuclear waste been released in a single...
Fast fashion must finally make way for a worker- and environmentally friendly textile industry! Fast fashion is not a sustainable model! Even 10 years after the devastating collapse of the Rana Plaza textile factory in Bangladesh with over 1100 deaths and numerous injuries, the EU is still a major consumer of fast fashion. This terrible event showed...
We should protect our nature much more! Today's Earth Day is not only about appreciating our beautiful home planet, but also about an ecological, environmentally conscious lifestyle to better protect nature. The European Union is working on many urgently needed measures to encourage industry in particular to take more responsibility for...
The EU is finally taking responsibility for the supply chains of coffee, cocoa, etc.! It is not for nothing that forests are the green lungs of our planet. The destruction of one of our natural resources must finally stop! That's why I am hopeful that we will finally be able to take responsibility in this plenary session in Strasbourg with a clear...
Ripa: "The EU adopts the world's largest legislative package towards climate neutrality" (Strasbourg, 18.04.2023) The European Parliament today adopted the final outcome of negotiations between the Parliament, Commission and Council on key parts of the EU's "Fit for 55" climate protection package. The legislative package, which is the largest of its kind in the world, aims to...
April 15, 2023 was a historic day for Germany: for the first time in almost 62 years, no more kilowatt hours of nuclear power flowed from a German nuclear power plant. The last three of the once 36 reactors were finally shut down on Friday night. This means...