Sylvia Limmer, October 20, 2020, Common Agricultural Policy

European Parliament, Brussels, P9 CRE PROV (2020) 10-20 (2-069-0000). After a year and a half of inactivity, it is utterly incomprehensible to me that it is now reckoned to set the voting on the Common Agricultural Policy in the midst of the COVID-19 lockdown. Over two thousand motions to amend lay on the table. There …

René Springer, May 13, 2020, Working Conditions in the Meatpacking Industry

René Springer Working Conditions in the Meatpacking Industry German Bundestag, May 13, 2020, Plenarprotokoll 19/159, p. 19730 [René Springer is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from the eastern German state of Brandenburg. He is an electrician and navy veteran and here responds to a motion concerning working conditions in the meatpacking industry. Hubertus Heil …

Stephan Protschka, March 30, 2020, Farm Labor

Stephan Protschka Farm Labor AfD Kompakt, March 30, 2020 [Stephan Protschka is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from Bavaria and is the AfD’s agriculture policy spokesman in the Bundestag.] Each year some 280,000 seasonal workers and harvest helpers from neighboring European countries bring in the fruit and vegetable harvest in Germany. With the entry …

Birgit Malsack-Winkemann, September 10, 2019, Food and Agriculture

Birgit Malsack-Winkemann Food and Agriculture German Bundestag, September 10, 2019, Plenarprotokoll 19/110, pp. 13601-13602 [Birgit Malsack-Winkemann is an Alternative für Deutschland Bundestag member from Berlin where she has served for over two decades as a magistrate. She here responds to the proposed 2020 budget for the Food and Agriculture Ministry currently led by Julia Klöckner …