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)
[Video] Interview avec Lex Delles
Cette vidéo a été enregistré avec et pour le Lëtzebuerger Journal en avril 2021, dans le cadre du show “Elo mol éierlech” (Soyons honnêtes). La vidéo est disponible sur le site web de Journal. Voici un court extrait: Si vous souhaitez soutenir le journalisme indépendant au Luxembourg, vous pouvez vous abonner à Journal pour 168 €/an […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP19: Meat peak, Serbian jab, and Export bans (w/ Pieter Cleppe)
April Fool’s ! Got you good, didn’t I? In this week’s episode of ConsEUmer: 🥩 Meat consumption might peak in 2025 🇷🇸 Luca Bertoletti goes to Serbia ☢️ Nuclear power qualifies as green 💉 Export bans are a bad look for the EU (w/ Pieter Cleppe)
We Will Suffer For Failing To Weigh Risks
Anti-lockdowners were opposed in promoting cost-benefit analysis, now everyone else will suffer the consequences Which shot did you get?” has become a recurring question in Europe, where many vaccines are now available on the market. After Pfizer/BioNTech became the first to be approved by the European Medicines Agency, European countries are also using the AstraZeneca […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP18: Organic boost, Turkish Lira tanks, and Vaccine sprint (w/ Matt Purple)
Ready for episode 18 of ConsEUmer? With these topics: 🥕 EU wants to boost organic farming 📉 The Turkish Lira is going down 💉 Differences between vaccine programmes in the EU and the U.S (w/ Matt Purple)
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.
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)
How Vaccine Passports Contribute to Global Inequality
A year into the coronavirus pandemic, cases are going down globally and vaccinations are ramping up. But we’re not in the clear yet, and it will take a while to get enough people vaccinated. What can we do to let people enjoy the activities they’ve been missing out on while still keeping vulnerable people safe […]
