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)
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)
The EU Is Missing a Chance to Address Its Problems With Turkey
Last October, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan suggested that French President Emmanuel Macron ought to seek “some sort of mental treatment,” after the latter had announced a tougher stance on radical Islam. Tensions between Turkey and France have been rampant since the beheading of French civics teacher Samuel Paty, who was targeted for showing caricatures […]
The Commission’s organic ambitions will be paid by consumers
Consumers will foot the bill for extravagant organic goals As I’ve previously explained on this website, the EU’s organic ambitions are seriously misled, because contrary to popular belief, organic food is neither environmentally friendly, nor better for consumers. Research has established that moving all current farming to organic farming would increase greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions […]
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)
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 […]
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)
ConsEUmer podcast / EP14: Lithuania bans Chinese airport scanners, IP rights, and New Polish taxes (w/ Marek Tatała)
In episode 14 of ConsEUmer: 🇱🇹 Lithuania bans Chinese airport scanners 📝 CCC livestream on intellectual property rights 🧪 EU coordinates rapid tests 🇵🇱 New Polish taxes (w/ Marek Tatała)
ConsEUmer podcast / EP13: Fake vaccines, New border closures, and Farm to Fork (w/ Kerry Hardy)
In the latest episode of ConsEUmer: 💉 Watch out for fake vaccines 🚗 Uber defends its platform workers (w/ Yaël Ossowski) 🛂 Germany introduces new border closures 🌾 The EU reforms agriculture (w/ Kerry Halferty Hardy)
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