I’ve become somewhat of a streaming junkie during this pandemic, following up on the criticism that my pop-culture knowledge is sub-optimal. Now subscribed to three services at once, I watch both popular movies and TV shows from the U.S. and niche local productions buried in the dark corners of Netflix. On these platforms, content curation […]
Finding innovative ways to improve European health
Some of the answers are in front of us When one of the Consumer Choice Center’s policy fellows, Nur Baysal recently published a blog post on senolytics on this page, I started to wonder about other alternative ways to improve health. COVID-19 has had many people take up worse habits in their daily lives, while […]
[Video] Interview mam Viviane Reding
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Only the individual can solve Britain’s obesity crisis
As Britain becomes the fat man of Europe, a blanket approach to large-scale policy-making will not solve Britain’s obesity crisis. Only the individual can do the work. Am I overeating? This question is, in essence, a modern one. Our ancestors would have stood in awe at the sheer availability of refrigerated and affordable meat in […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP17: Milk fight, AstraZeneca, and the Nanny State (w/ Jason Reed)
In this new episode of ConsEUmer: 🥛 Milk is milk, says the ECJ 💉 AstraZeneca controversy (w/ Fred Roeder) 🇩🇪 Germany reaches CO2 targets because of COVID-19 🇬🇧 Nanny State rules in the UK (w/ Jason Reed) You can follow Jason Reed on Twitter @JasonReed624.
Are we thinking correctly about rail passenger rights?
“Rail passenger rights” are paid by consumers… The European Parliament’s TRAN committee recently approved new rail passenger rights legislation. With this new text, rail companies will be obligated to re-route passengers for delays of more than 100 minutes, provide bike racks, and assure “through-ticketing” under a single operator. This last requirement means that passengers will […]
The EU’s Grandiose U-Turn on “Vaccine Solidarity”
How do you vaccinate over 400 million people in a short amount of time? That is the question that the European Union tasked itself to answer when early in the COVID-19 it sought to organize vaccine distribution for the entire bloc. At heart, Brussels was coming from the right place: after many member states had […]
[Podcast] Consumer Choice Radio: Beware the Vaccine Passport
I was a guest on Consumer Choice Radio, hosted by my colleagues David Clement and Yaël Ossowski. We talked about vaccine passports, carbon border adjustments, and plastic taxes. https://consumerchoiceradio.com/ Listen in, and make sure to subscribe!
ConsEUmer podcast / EP16: Petrol car ban, Bad procurement, and EU-Mercosur trade (w/ Bruno Capuzzi)
Are you ready for a new episode of ConsEUmer? Topics in this show: 🚘 9 EU member states ask for petrol car ban 💉 Former EU medicines chief criticises vaccine strategy 🇷🇺 Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine causes problems in Europe 📦 Trade with Mercosur (w/ Bruno Capuzzi)
[Video] Discussion sur le nucléaire
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