On this page, you will find the latest news, speeches, and talks.
(With a few exceptions, most of them are written in German.)
Call for an economy for the common good as a solution for a long-term sustainable and fair economic system The coronavirus pandemic is threatening to increase social injustice worldwide for the first time: According to a study by the development organization Oxfam, there is a risk that the world's already precarious social imbalance will continue to worsen dramatically. "The pandemic...
ÖDP: This salami-slicing tactic is draining Berlin-Brandenburg's drinking water Tesla wants taxpayers' money for the world's largest battery factory. This news comes as a surprise to the state of Brandenburg, among others. The Tesla battery factory is to be built in Grünheide right next to the Gigafactory for electric cars. According to press reports, the Federal Ministry of Economics has allowed the US company to "provisionally start work", albeit...
The federal government has initiated a ban on chick shredding from 2022. "Far too late!", says Manuela Ripa, MEP for the Ecological Democratic Party (ÖDP). "Every year, 45 million male chicks are killed in this cruel, completely inhumane way. This should have been stopped a long time ago...
In an Op-Ed for the newspaper New Europe, Manuela Ripa discusses the opportunities and possibilities for the EU to make this year a year of climate opportunities. The full article (ENG) can be read here....
Fewer and fewer young people in Germany are eating meat, but meat consumption is continuing to grow worldwide. This is the key finding of the current "Meat Atlas 2021" published by the German Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation (BUND) and the Heinrich Böll Foundation. We now urgently need a change in the system: away from...
Our MEP's office in the EU Parliament will be closed from December 23 to January 3. I wish you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year 2021 and happy listening to our European Christmas greetings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlnA-JRUUEk Culture is systemically relevant: A European Christmas greeting Dear friends, Dear colleagues, Ladies and gentlemen...
Members of the European Parliament Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals have written a letter to the German Federal Minister of Agriculture Julia Klöckner, urging the German government to tighten the ban on wild animals in circuses. "The circus has nothing to do...
Members of the European Parliament's Intergroup on the Welfare and Conservation of Animals have sent a letter to German Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner calling for a stricter ban on wild animals in circuses. "The circus has nothing to do with the real behavior of animals", underlines Manuela...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has confirmed that EU member states have the fundamental right to introduce mandatory stunning before slaughter. This is a major and historic victory for greater animal welfare! Without stunning, slaughter processes, and slaughter in particular, are associated with unimaginable suffering for the animals. The background to this was the...
Overall declining membership figures and the Covid-19 pandemic have made it very difficult for animal shelters and animal welfare organizations in Germany this year. Since, among other things, visits from the general public are not possible or only possible to a very limited extent in the fight against the pandemic, the general understanding of the situation of...