Another week, another episode of ConsEUmer! This week: 🍾Russia bans champagne 💻 Digital Services Tax on hold 🌿Europe’s challenges in legalising cannabis (w/ Deepak Anand) You can follow Deepak Anand on Twitter @_deepakanand. July 22, 2021 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fyyzto
Last week’s episode of the ConsEUmer podcast was guest-hosted by my colleague Yaël Ossowski. Give it a listen!
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)
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)
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 […]
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 […]
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)
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 […]
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)
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)
