MEP Ripa (ÖDP) calls for reversal of the burden of proof The European Commission has announced that products manufactured with the help of forced labor may no longer be sold in the EU in the future. The focus here is particularly on China, where there have long been reports of blatant human rights violations...
Ripa: "Good approaches, but many important issues ignored" (Strasbourg/14.09.2022) Today, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivered her annual State of the European Union address to the European Parliament. She began by welcoming the Ukrainian President's wife Olena Selenska, who was present in Parliament. Von der Leyen...
Ripa: "EU bears great responsibility for global deforestation" (Strasbourg/13.09.2022) Today, the European Parliament adopted a regulation against deforestation and forest degradation by a large majority. This means that a legal framework is now in place to ensure that raw materials and products sold in the EU are not linked to deforestation and...
Ripa: "Brownfield sites are attractive for business relocations" (Saarbücken/12.09.2022) The Chinese battery manufacturer SVolt has announced that it is postponing its plans to build a factory for electric car batteries on the Linslerfeld site in Überherrn, Saarland, by several years. Battery production is now scheduled to start in 2027/2028. Until now, SVolt had assumed...
Ripa: "Climate change is putting additional pressure on our soils" (Brussels/02.09.2022) This week's announcement by the German Weather Service that the summer of 2022 in Germany was the sixth driest since weather records began is an opportunity for MEP Manuela Ripa of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) to draw attention to the dramatically...
Ripa: "The clock has already reached five past twelve for our world" Manuela Ripa, MEP of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP), takes the new Club of Rome report as an opportunity to call for a radical turnaround in environmental, economic and social policy. The authors of the study...
MEP Manuela Ripa criticizes key issues paper by Cem Özdemir (Brussels, 11.07.2022) "For years, I of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP) have been calling for the introduction of mandatory animal welfare labeling including a pictorial representation of the husbandry conditions. Together with Klaus Buchner, my predecessor in the EU Parliament, I have developed the concept of an EU-wide label that...
"Both CETA and the Energy Charter Treaty are climate killers!" (Brussels/08.07.2022) After years of campaigning by environmental associations and political parties such as the ÖDP, the fight against the planned European-Canadian free trade agreement CETA unfortunately seems to be lost. Alliance 90/The Greens have announced that they will no longer block ratification. This paves the way...
"With the CO2 border adjustment tax, the European Parliament is introducing a new instrument for global climate protection. Today's vote is also important for Saarland's steel industry" Brussels, 22.06.2022 - Today, the European Parliament in Brussels voted on three core proposals of the EU climate protection package "Fit for 55" at the second attempt...
MEP Manuela Ripa: "We need an efficient climate protection measure that also takes third countries into account!" Brussels, 04.03.22. The Committee on International Trade has voted on the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM). The Committee's recommendation on this global climate protection measure failed by one vote. The European Commission had proposed the CBAM as part of its European...