On this page, you will find the latest news, speeches, and talks.
(With a few exceptions, most of them are written in German.)
This week, Kirsten Elisabeth Jäckel from the Federal Executive Committee of the ÖDP and Chair of the BAK Women visited me in the European Parliament for three days. They were very eventful days, where she looked over my shoulder as I worked and where we took part in a demonstration against the...
No compromises: Stop a possible re-approval of glyphosate! The authorization of glyphosate actually ends on 15.12.2023. However, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has now found in an opinion on July 6 that the total herbicide glyphosate is safe. EFSA sees no "critical problem areas" in the use of...
Unfortunately, things are not looking good for the fight against the mountains of plastic we are accumulating in Europe and around the world.Today in the Industry Committee (ITRE) we voted on the European Parliament's opinion on the revised Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, for which I am shadow rapporteur for my Greens/EFA group.The...
The European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) StopFinningEU has become the 8th initiative of its kind to pass the threshold of 1 million signatures in over 7 Member States and has been submitted to the European Commission. It now had to respond to this. The ECI is directed against the brutal practice of depriving sharks of their...
In addition to the major vote on nature conservation (renaturation law), a number of other important decisions were taken during this plenary week of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. For a strong Ecodesign Directive and thus for more consumer protection. The aim: greater durability, recyclability and energy efficiency of goods by taking ecological factors into account right from the...
Small victory for nature conservation! It was an intense week in Strasbourg with many actions to draw attention to the important vote on the #renaturation law. And we were able to prevent this central pillar of European climate and nature conservation policy from being torn down! Despite a massive disinformation campaign by the alleged Christian Democrats, we were able to...
Ripa: "The European Parliament speaks out in favor of nature conservation!"(Strasbourg/12.07.2023) Today, the eagerly awaited vote on the "Nature Restoration Act" was on the agenda in the plenary session of the European Parliament. In the run-up to the vote, there was a very heated debate about the objectives of the...
Tomorrow is the big day: The plenary of the European Parliament will decide on the future of the important renaturation law! After the renaturation law was rejected in several parliamentary committees, it is now up to the plenary vote. There, the Parliament's position for the trilogue negotiations will be...
After a long wait and many postponements, the European Commission has presented a directive on soil monitoring. In the European Parliament, we have been campaigning for a European soil protection law for years, as an improvement in the condition of our soils is urgently needed! So in 2021, as shadow rapporteur for my...
