In this week’s ConsEUmer podcast: 🇦🇹 Austria introduces mandatory vaccination 🤑 Discussing the Euro w/ Pieter Cleppe You can follow Pieter Cleppe on Twitter @pietercleppe. January 27, 2022 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fyyzto
ConsEUmer podcast / EP52: Special Venice episode with the team!
During out Venice retreat, same members of the CCC team join the ConsEUmer podcast for a special episode. Featuring: Anna Arunashvili, Aleksandar Kokotović, Yaël Ossowski, and David Clement. We are talking: 🦠 COVID-19 lockdowns are back in Europe 🚘 Ride-sharing remains contentious in some countries ₿ Crypto adoption is progressing ⛽ Petrol taxes fuel inflation […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP46: Latvia locks down, Bye bye Alitalia, and Austria’s political crisis (w/ Franz Schellhorn)
New week, new ConsEUmer episode! This week: 🇱🇻 Lativa locks down for a month ✈️ Alitalia is dead, long live Alitalia? (w/ Luca Bertoletti) 🏭 Energy prices go through the roof 🇦🇹 Austria in turmoil & its need for reforms (w/ Franz Schellhorn) Euractiv link: https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy/opinion/whos-to-blame-for-high-energy-prices/ You can follow Franz Schellhorn on Twitter at @franzschellhorn. […]
The lasting effects of the Diesel controversy
I was recently reminded of the effects of the long-lasting Diesel controversy on a trip to the Netherlands. The city centre of Amsterdam is a restricted traffic zone for certain types of engines, for the purpose of protecting air quality. The website of the city government says: “City traffic is a major polluter of the […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP20: Vial trial, Electric drop, and Vaccine business (w/ Ivana Jeremić)
New episode of ConsEUmer with these topics: 💉 EU member states fight over extra doses of COVID-19 vaccines 🔌 Electric car sales drop in the Netherlands 🪧 Fridays For Future is back (yay…?) 🇷🇸 Serbia’s business with vaccines (w/ Ivana Jeremić)
[Reportage] Plénière vum Europaparlament: US-Walen, Terrorismus, Gesondheetspolitik
Dëse Reportage gouf fir RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg produzéiert, a gouf den 12. November iwwerdroen. De ganze Beitrag fënnt een och hei. Duerch de Lockdown an der Belsch ware vill Interventioune via Video erakoumen. Dës Woch ass d’Plenière vum Europaparlament zu Bréissel. Um Ordre du jour stinn ënnert anerem d’Resultat vun de Presidentiellen an Amerika, déi […]
[10ème Homme] Nouvelle lettre sur le pacte migration
Chers lecteurs, Comme je vous avais annoncé au mois d’avril 2019, je contribue une fois par mois à la newsletter “10ème Homme”, produit par Vauban Editions en Suisse. Au mois d’août et de septembre ma lettre (et ma vidéo) expliquaient le nouveau budget colossal de l’Union européenne et la dispute maritime entre la Turquie et […]
[10è Homme] Nouvelle lettre sur le budget de l’Union européenne
Chers lecteurs, Comme je vous avais annoncé au mois d’avril 2019, je contribue une fois par mois à la newsletter “10ème Homme”, produit par Vauban Editions en Suisse. Au mois de juin et juillet ma lettre (et ma vidéo) vous parlaient du jugement de la cour constitutionnelle allemande sur la BCE, et en quoi les […]
Europe Needs a “New UK”
French President Emmanuel Macron accused the “Frugals”, i.e. the Netherlands, Austria, Denmark, and Sweden (during the last European Council summit, Finland also joined this group) of “acting like Brexit Britain.” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte had demanded a smaller proportion of grants – handing out money without having to repay it – instead of loans awarded by […]
Here’s who the “Frugal Four” are and why you should root for them
In order to respond to COVID-19 and the economic collapse that we are experiencing as a result of the lockdown measures, the European Commission has laid out an ambitious program to tackle the situation. During the European Council meeting on June 19, EU heads of state and government were not able to find common ground […]