Commissioner Stella Kyriakides, the Members of the AnimalWelfare Intergroup’s Working Group on Companion Animals, Petras Auštrevičius MEP, Manuela Ripa MEP and Michal Wiezik MEP met for a constructive meeting on April 18th 2023....
Ripa: "The EU is passing the world's largest legislative package towards climate neutrality." (Strasbourg, 18.04.2023) The European Parliament today adopted the final negotiating outcome between Parliament, Commission, and Council for important parts of the EU climate protection package "Fit for 55". The legislative package, the largest...
Ripa: „Europäische Eigenständigkeit bei Halbleitern 'Made im Saarland'!" (Ensdorf, 01.02.2023) Gemeinsam mit dem deutschen Automobilzulieferer ZF stellt der US-Konzern Wolfspeed heute seine Pläne zum Bau der weltweit größten Fabrik für die Herstellung von Halbleitern aus Siliziumkarbid vor. Die Fabrik soll auf einem alten Kraftwerksgelände errichtet...
Ripa: "No habitat must be lost!" (Brussels/22.12.2022) On Monday, the UN World Conference on Nature in Montreal came to its end with the adoption of a final declaration. On this occasion, some important decisions on measures for the protection of species were made. For example, at...
Ripa: "The agreement will restore the EU climate protection policy - with aggravated and expanded emissions trading and the introduction of a CO2 limit compensation mechanism, new standards will be set worldwide" (Brussels/12/21/2022) On Sunday morning, the European Parliament, the Council, and the European Commission reached...
Ripa: "Climate protection and nature conservation must not play off against each other!" (Strasbourg/15.12.2022) The European Parliament has voted on amendments to the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) as part of the RePowerEU package to enable the accelerated expansion of renewable energy (RE). The urgency contains many...
Ripa: "We have to intensify our efforts to fight corruption urgently" (Brussels/14.12.2022) Following the exposure of the corruption scandal in the European Parliament and the arrest of Parliament Vice President Eva Kaili, Manuela Ripa, Member of the European Parliament for the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP), is...
Ripa: "CO2 content is becoming the new currency in world trade!” (Strasbourg, 13.12.2022) As part of the EU’s major climate protection package "Fit for 55", another central element has been adopted. With the carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM), the European Parliament and the member states are...
Ripa: "Investment protection is prioritized over climate protection" (Brussels/29.11.2022) Germany should urgently implement its announcement and withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), demands Manuela Ripa, MEP of the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP). For far too long, she said, Germans have been losing time and have...
ÖDP does not accept parallel justice for profit (Brussels, 29/11/2022) Are corporations allowed to sue Germany in the future because they lose profit when the state protects the population and nature? The German Bundestag will decide this Thursday (01.12.). Five years ago, the CETA free trade...