This video was recorded by Lëtzebuerger Journal in December 2020, for the show “Elo mol éierlech” (Let’s be honest) that I am hosting on their digital platform. The video is available for free on the website of Journal. (original language: Luxembourgish // subtitles available in English) Here is a short clip: If you want to […]
Christmas Eve episode of ConsEUmer out now! This week with Adam Bartha, on the EU’s new rule of law conditionality for the budget. Other topics in this podcast: -> European Year of Rail 2021-> Dangerous gifts under your Christmas tree-> New EU rules for drones
A new ConsEUmer episode was released last week. This time with Brussels policy analyst Pieter Cleppe, on the latest Euro Summit in Brussels, and on the new EU budget. Other topics in this podcast: -> EU reforms airline slots -> RyanAir opposes bailouts -> Nutri-Score battle continues
Mycotoxin contamination is set to become a bigger problem as climate change evolves. In order to prevent food safety and food security, European farmers need adequate crop protection tools…. What do you do when you see a set of mould on the marmalade in your fridge? The unfortunate conventional household wisdom is to remove it, […]
The European Commission’s new Farm To Fork strategy aims at a significant increase in organic farming in Europe. The implication that organic is better seems to have become the predominant belief in agricultural politics. However, it doesn’t hold up to the… Organic farming benefits from special derogations in public discourse — it in fact does […]
A French scientist has won a Nobel Prize for a technology that has been made illegal for use in agriculture by the European Union… One wonders how exactly the news was received in the European Commission when two female scientists, one of which French, received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the development of […]
The ambitious targets of the F2F strategy will cause headaches for the EU’s trade policy… The European Commission has laid out an ambitious plan with the Farm to Fork strategy, which is set to flip agriculture in Europe upside down. For the EU, agriculture is to blame for much of the lack of sustainability in […]
Dëse Reportage gouf fir RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg produzéiert, a gouf de 4. Dezember iwwerdroen. De ganze Beitrag fënnt een och hei. Wéi kënnen déi nächst Europawale méi schmackhaft gi fir d’Wieler? Mat där Fro beschäftegt sech d’Europäescht Parlament. An enger rezenter Resolutioun denkt si iwwer Reformen no, wéi d’Walrecht ab 16, Länneriwwergräifend Kandidaturen, a paritéitesch […]
NEW ConsEUmer episode out today. This week with Fred Roeder, on the European Commission’s new pharma strategy, and on the European Green Deal. Other topics in this podcast: -> Lobsters go free of tariffs -> Where are the European tech giants?
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 septembre et d’octobre ma lettre (et ma vidéo) expliquaient la dispute maritime entre la Turquie et la Grèce et le nouveau pacte migration proposé […]
Bill Wirtz 