Tout remède sérieux aux difficultés budgétaires de l’OMS doit d’abord réduire les privilèges exécutifs inutiles. L’avenir de l’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) est plus incertain que jamais. La demande officielle des États-Unis de se retirer de l’organisation le 20 janvier 2025 et de cesser tout financement futur a privé l’OMS de 1,28 milliard de dollars, […]
Across the United States, several emerging policies are putting both medical innovation and patient access to lifesaving drugs at risk. Although these measures are often promoted as efforts to reduce healthcare costs and assert greater national control, they could end up limiting access to new treatments and slowing scienitific progress. Patients have strong reasons to […]
In this week’s solo episode: some of Haribo’s cola candy in the Netherlands contains… cannabis, the airline compensation review is dragging on, and Flixtrain expands its network in Europe. May 29, 2025 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fyyzto
Partisan du principe de précaution à l’européenne, le ministre de la Santé américain s’attaque à la FDA et freine l’innovation médicale et agricole. Une vision méfiante envers la science industrielle qui pourrait coûter cher à l’économie américaine. Depuis que Robert Kennedy Jr. a pris ses fonctions de ministre de la Santé, il agit exactement comme […]
I was back on FOX 5 DC to discuss the latest developments on Surgeon General appointee Casey Means and Trump’s drug pricing executive order. You can watch the entire interview below:
Should you get the extended warranty on a new MacBook? Fabio Fernandes joins the podcast this week to discuss how to handle your electronics. Also: are highly processed foods bad for you? May 15, 2025 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fyyzto
Alors que la guerre commerciale insensée de Donald Trump fait des ravages sur les marchés internationaux et que le Canada reste la cible de tarifs douaniers d’envergure, le législateur québécois doit réévaluer la lourdeur de la réglementation qu’il a appliquée au cours des dernières décennies. Ce sont surtout les producteurs régionaux du Bas-Saint-Laurent, du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, de l’Abitibi-Témiscamingue, de Chaudière-Appalaches, qui seront les plus durement touchés par la concurrence, car ils sont […]
It would be a stretch to say that Health and Human Services (HHS) is being led for the first time by someone who is out of their depth, but it’s certainly the case that, for the first time, its chief is deeply suspicious of most modern medicine. Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as HHS […]
In this week’s episode, Justin Leventhal, Senior Policy Analyst at the American Consumer Institute and our own Research Manager Emil Panzaru join us to discuss sports betting regulation and implications in both Europe and the United States. May 1, 2025 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fyyzto
Yaël Ossowski joins the podcast this week to give us a rundown on the upcoming federal election in Canada, discuss mandatory bike helmets in the Netherlands, and the latest in the scandal surrounding EU funding of NGOs. April 24, 2025 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fyyzto
Bill Wirtz 