Ripa: "Effective marine protection requires EU-wide binding legislation!" (Brussels, 22.02.23) Manuela Ripa, MEP of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP), comments as follows on the action plan presented today by the European Commission to end bottom trawling: "We need an end to the use of bottom trawls in fisheries! This fishing method destroys the biological...
Ripa: "A sustainable EU industrial policy must be based on the objectives of the EU Green Deal" MEPs have adopted a resolution on the EU industrial strategy - the Green Deal Industrial Act - with a decisive majority in the plenary session in Strasbourg. The main aim of the resolution is to promote the ecological...
Ripa: "Expand cycling infrastructure and develop European bicycle production!" (Strasbourg, 16.02.23) MEP Manuela Ripa (ÖDP) comments on today's vote in the European Parliament on an EU cycling strategy as follows: "Cycling is no longer just a hobby these days, but rather part of the transportation infrastructure in Europe! The advantages...
I was delighted to attend the launch of Philip Lymbery's book "Sixty Harvests Left". Lymbery is a passionate animal rights activist and environmentalist, President of Eurogroup for Animals and a founding member of the World Federation for Animals. His book is very topical and takes a critical look at...
(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...
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...