My recent segment ran on Forum Daily’s The New Forum sin Canada. There was no way around the European Commission’s agricultural deregulations package. Watch me explain it in this short segment below.
Vermont’s new pesticide bill will cost consumers dearly
A new bill in the Vermont House would ban the use of certain insecticides by the state’s agricultural sector. Bill H.706 bans the use of neonicotinoid insecticides on many crops, such as corn, soy and grain, and on all crops during bloom. The bill follows a recent move by New York state to ban the […]
Légalisation du cannabis : où en-est on?
Un marché commercial va-t-il enfin émerger ? Lors d’un vote au parlement, les législateurs allemands ont récemment adopté un projet de loi visant à légaliser le cannabis. Cette réforme, attendue depuis des années, est l’une des principales promesses de l’actuelle coalition gouvernementale dirigée par le chancelier social-démocrate Olaf Scholz. Toutefois, malgré l’enthousiasme de nombreux militants pro-cannabis, […]
Influenceurs en Europe: quel type de réglementation est nécessaire?
L’Etat montre qu’il est à la traîne d’un modèle qui permet de plus en plus aux gens d’avoir des flux de revenus multiples et flexibles. Sous la présidence belge de l’Union européenne, le Conseil européen cherche à clarifier les règles applicables aux influenceurs en ligne. Nous les avons tous vus : des personnes qui apparaissent sur […]
On Forum Daily to talk farmer protests
I was a guest on Forum Daily’s The News Forum to talk about farmer protests in Europe. Click the video below to watch the entire interview:
ConsEUmer podcast / EP145: Tourist taxes, VDL 2.0, and Content moderation (w/ Karen Melchior MEP)
This week our guest is Karen Melchior, a Member of the European Parliament from Denmark, who is part of the Renew Europe parliamentary group. We’re talking about content moderation on social media platforms, and what role algorithms play. Also in this episode: 🛬 European cities increase their tourist taxes to disincentivise travellers 🇪🇺 Ursula von […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP144: Polish protests, Canadian trade, and Airline data privacy (w/ Benjamin Ayanian)
In this week’s episode of ConsEUmer we talk to Young Voices contributor Benjamin Ayanian about the push by Republican lawmakers to get private airlines to disclose information about migrant passengers. Also in this episode: 🇵🇱 In Poland and beyond, farmers continue protesting 🇨🇦 What’s happening with the CETA trade agreement? ✈️ Republicans want more information, […]
Episode 3 of Fun Police’s second season is out!
In this third episode, we look at the role of international institutions when it comes to litigation. IARC, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, uses a method of analysing hazard, not risk, opening up companies to expensive litigation. This appears to be used as a method to impose quasi bans. Act 1: Precaution Act […]
Manifestations d’agriculteurs en Europe: oui, les directives européennes sont en faute !
A travers toute l’Europe, les agriculteurs expriment leur mécontentement… à juste titre. Dans de nombreux pays européens, les agriculteurs protestent et ils ont raison de le faire. Qu’il s’agisse des agriculteurs néerlandais qui protestent contre la réduction prévue du nombre d’éleveurs, des agriculteurs allemands qui s’opposent à la hausse prévue des taxes sur le diesel […]
Episode 2 of Fun Police’s second season is out!
In this season of the Fun Police podcast, we are looking at the role of international institutions in the propagation of misinformation and how prohibitionists are using them to further their goals. In this episode: the dirty on the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and its Conference of the Parties (COP), the World Health Organization’s […]
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