I joined my colleague David Clement on Consumer Choice Radio this week! Listen in:
La propriété intellectuelle, indispensable pour lutter contre les prochaines pandémies
Comment la communauté internationale fera face à de futures pandémies, similaires à celles que nous connaissons ? L’Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) en est aux premiers stades de la discussion sur ce que l’on appelle un instrument de prévention, de préparation et de réponse aux pandémies (PPR). Cet instrument doit permettre de déterminer comment […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP76: What trip is the WTO on? & Orbán’s sanctions ambiguity (w/ Adam Bartha)
In this week’s episode of ConsEUmer: 💉 What is TRIPS and what can go wrong? (w/ Luca Bertoletti) 🇭🇺 How Orbán hagelled on Russian energy sanctions (w/ Adam Bartha) Check out these websites if you want support Ukraine financially: https://www.blue-yellow.lt/en/ https://how-to-help-ukraine-now.super.site/?fbclid=IwAR2HawZT-H0iLD08QdXDMBG2qFKA3dpHsjDXt7bppN092YP2TVnQuDJ4j8A You can follow Adam Bartha on Twitter @bartha_adam. Check out EPICENTER: https://www.epicenternetwork.eu/ June 2, […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP75: Monkeypox, Shanghai lockdown, and The wireless connection (co-hosted with Fabio Fernandes)
This week’s ConsEUmer podcast is co-hosted with Fabio Fernandes. This week: 🦠 Monkeypox is making the rounds 🔒 China continues its zero-COVID policy 📱 Wireless charging: we weigh the benefits and downsides Check out these websites if you want support Ukraine financially: https://www.blue-yellow.lt/en/ https://how-to-help-ukraine-now.super.site/?fbclid=IwAR2HawZT-H0iLD08QdXDMBG2qFKA3dpHsjDXt7bppN092YP2TVnQuDJ4j8A You can follow Fabio Fernandes on Twitter @DeFariaeSilva. Check out his […]
Wéi gesäis du dat? – False balance
An dësem Format diskutéieren d’Journalisten vum Lëtzebuerger Journal iwwer editorial Choixe vun der Redaktioun. Wéi Informatioune sollen traitéiert an eriwwerbruecht ginn, dat gesäit net ëmmer jiddereen d’selwecht. False balance De Misch Pautsch an de Bill Wirtz diskutéieren driwwer, ob een an engem Debat och déi zu Wuert komme loosse soll, déi Verschwörungstheorië verbreeden oder radikal Meenungen […]
[Podcast] Oppen Dieren Episod 6: Net am EU-Parlament vertruede Parteien
Déi sechst Episod vum neie Podcast “Oppen Dieren” ass disponibel um Lëtzebuerger Journal. Dir fannt déi ganz Episod andeems dir HEI klickt. Dës Episod ass och disponibel fir net-Abonnenten. Hei ass een Teaser: Dir kënnt onofhängege Journalismus ënnerstëtze andeems dir iech op de Lëtzebuerger Journal abonnéiert. Méi Informatioune fannt dir op journal.lu.
ConsEUmer podcast / EP23: ALLRAIL gets it wrong, Health Union, and the War on Plastic (w/ David Clement)
🚆 Privat rail companies ask for a ban on short flights 🏥 The EU wants more competences in the field of health (w/ Fred Roeder) 🥡 David Clement presents his new policy on the War on Plastic
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)
Finding innovative ways to improve European health
Some of the answers are in front of us When one of the Consumer Choice Center’s policy fellows, Nur Baysal recently published a blog post on senolytics on this page, I started to wonder about other alternative ways to improve health. COVID-19 has had many people take up worse habits in their daily lives, while […]
Only the individual can solve Britain’s obesity crisis
As Britain becomes the fat man of Europe, a blanket approach to large-scale policy-making will not solve Britain’s obesity crisis. Only the individual can do the work. Am I overeating? This question is, in essence, a modern one. Our ancestors would have stood in awe at the sheer availability of refrigerated and affordable meat in […]
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