Our guest this week is a returning guest: Pieter Cleppe from Brussels Report joins us to discuss the upcoming elections in Belgium. Also in this episode: 🕰️ What happened to scrapping Daylight Savings Time? 🏆 Zoltán Kész joins us to explain Consumer Champs, our new project Follow Pieter on X @pietercleppe and Brussels Report @brussels_report. […]
Our guest this week is Jorge Teixeira, parliamentary assistant for Initiativa Liberal, a political party in Portugal. He will comment on the parliamentary election in Portugal last Sunday, and what we can expect to happen from here on out in the coalition talks. Also in this episode: 🚗 Consumers reject a ban on the internal combustion […]
A new bill in the Vermont House would ban the use of certain insecticides by the state’s agricultural sector. Bill H.706 bans the use of neonicotinoid insecticides on many crops, such as corn, soy and grain, and on all crops during bloom. The bill follows a recent move by New York state to ban the […]
I was a guest once again on the Wednesday Night Live livestream to promote the second season of the Fun Police podcast series. You can watch the entire livestream below:
In this week’s episode we talk to Kristen Sukulac from the Biocontrol Coalition about what biocontrol is and what it can do for European agriculture. Also in this episode: 🇩🇪 Germany legalises cannabis… sort of 🇨🇳 PES revisits its position on China Find out more about the Biocontrol Coalition: https://biocontrolcoalition.eu/ February 29, 2024 Follow ConsEUmer wherever […]
L’Etat montre qu’il est à la traîne d’un modèle qui permet de plus en plus aux gens d’avoir des flux de revenus multiples et flexibles. Sous la présidence belge de l’Union européenne, le Conseil européen cherche à clarifier les règles applicables aux influenceurs en ligne. Nous les avons tous vus : des personnes qui apparaissent sur […]
I was a guest on Forum Daily’s The News Forum to talk about farmer protests in Europe. Click the video below to watch the entire interview:
“Don’t let us become more like the United States.” This was the message from German agriculture minister, Cem Özdemir, regarding the farmer protests that have shaken Germany for months. Farmers spoke out and organized against planned tax hikes on agricultural vehicles and diesel fuel amid a cost-of-living crisis already stressing German life. “This is a dangerous rift […]
This week our guest is Karen Melchior, a Member of the European Parliament from Denmark, who is part of the Renew Europe parliamentary group. We’re talking about content moderation on social media platforms, and what role algorithms play. Also in this episode: 🛬 European cities increase their tourist taxes to disincentivise travellers 🇪🇺 Ursula von […]
I was a guest on The Impact Farming Show to talk, at length, about farmer protests in Europe. You can watch the entire exchange by clicking the video below:
