March 2022
The study commissioned by myself and MEP Helmut Scholz warns of a significant adverse effect on the environment both in Poland and Germany.
I travelled to Iraq at the end of March 2022. After music had been virtually eradicated from the city for a long time, the Mosul Traditional Music Festival was now taking place. Learn more about my trip in this interview:
As Chair of the European Parliament Delegation for Relations with the Arabian Peninsula, I issued a statement on the attacks.
Diesen Monat lag der Fokus meiner Arbeit auf dem Krieg in der Ukraine. Unter Anderem ging es um europäische Waffenexporte und wie wir mit einer feministische Außenpolitik Kriegen entgegenwirken können. Erfahrt hier mehr:
Representatives of big arms companies have written entire paragraphs of the Commission's proposal for the European Defence Fund. I spoke about this with Investigate Europe - German newspaper Tagesspiegel reports.
The EU has once again allocated 500 million euros for the export of weapons to Ukraine. I provided i.a. rbb and Deutschlandfunk (two public German radio channels) with my points of view regarding this decision.
Cooperation in the energy sector, the EU's role in regional security and the impact of the Ukraine war on EU-Gulf relations: These were some of the issues I raised at yesterday's hearing.
My visit to Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: I participated in a silent march against racism under the motto "Racism kills." Afterwards, I put on my rubber boots to do conservation work to protect the Buddenhagen marshland.
Bullets, planes, rockets, torpedoes, bombs. EU member states have continued to sell arms to Russia even after the arms embargo was passed in 2014. I spoke to Investigate Europe about this.
Together with pianist Igor Levit I organized a #NoWar house concert in Berlin with musicians from Ukraine and Russia.
Armoured Swiss military vehicles, originally exported to Brazil for humanitarian purposes, have been used in Rio de Janeiro's favelas. I spoke to the press about the case.
Putin can safely be described as peak toxic masculinity, and yet he is far from alone with his macho behaviour and his oppression of women and minorities in his own country. But how can a feminist foreign policy counter all of this?
