We’re back this week with these topics: 🚲 Bicycles still aren’t the best way to get around the Netherlands 🇧🇷 Brazil held its presidential election. What it means for Europe (w/ Fabio Fernandes) 🛬 European Parliament wants to extend ETS to intercontinental flights 🚗 The Uber Files were addressed in the European Parliament Follow Yaël […]
The war in Ukraine has affected Europe’s agricultural sector and slowed the ambitions of the European Union to enact sweeping new farming rules. Reforms in Brussels are modeled on the so-called Farm-to-Fork strategy, a roadmap through which the union wants to slash pesticide use, reduce farmland and push organic agriculture well beyond its current market […]
Les cryptomonnaies, NFT et autres tokens divers et variés attirent toute l’attention des législateurs européens. Le règlement de l’Union européenne sur les marchés de crypto-actifs (MiCA), en chantier depuis début 2018, est enfin finalisé. Cette législation vise à « harmoniser le cadre européen pour l’émission et la négociation de divers types de tokens cryptographiques dans le […]
I was interviewed on the Central European Affairs Podcast by Zoltán Kész. A link to a transcripted version can be found here.
In this week’s episode of ConsEUmer: 🇷🇴 European Council will decide whether to allow Romania a.o. into Schengen (w/ Emil Panzaru) 🚉 15 European railway companies create flexible substitute tickets 🔌 Is car protectionism the way? (w/ Jan Burdinski) Follow Jan Burdinski on Twitter @Burdinski. Support the war effort in Ukraine: https://www.recyclerussia.com/ October 27, 2022 […]
We’re back! This week with these topics: 🔌 Macron wants more protectionism on electric vehicles ☢️ Finland wants to upgrade its nuclear power capacity 🎤 CCC and World Vapers’ Alliance hosted a press conference on vaping misperceptions Support the war effort in Ukraine: https://www.recyclerussia.com/ October 20, 2022 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: […]
The Consumer Choice Center, together with World Vapers’ Alliance, recently presented a new survey conducted with 30 general practitioners and over 800 smokers in Germany and France – with an initial piece of good news: more than half of respondents want to quit smoking! Awareness of the health effects of smoking tobacco has grown exponentially over the […]
Quand l’Etat choisit les gagnants et les perdants sur le marché, cela ne se termine jamais bien. Certaines personnes partageront cet article sur les réseaux sociaux, ce qui augmentera le trafic vers le site de La Chronique Agora. Plus de trafic sur un site web signifie qu’un nombre plus important d’utilisateurs seront susceptibles de cliquer sur […]
To an outside observer, Turkey’s behavior since the start of the Ukraine war might seem erratic. When Russia began its aggressive warfare, Turkey condemned the attack and put a planned acquisition of new Russian weapons on hold. The Turkish company Baykar—one of whose executives is President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s son-in-law— provides the Ukrainian military with […]
Over the summer, farmers in the Netherlands vehemently protested against the government’s new environmental rules. Over multiple weeks, thousands of farmers burned hay bales and blocked roads and food distribution centers in an effort to draw attention to new EU rules that would paralyze the sector. The government in The Hague attempts to follow EU […]
Bill Wirtz 