Back this week with a new episode! In this show: 🚀 Billionaires are going to space, but not everyone is happy 🇪🇺 The EU releases climate package, but who pays? 🇬🇪 Georgia’s protests (w/ Liza Katsiashvili) You can follow Liza Katsiashvili on Twitter @LizKatsiashvili. July 15, 2021 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP31: Euro Tech Demolition Team (Hosted by Yaël Ossowski)
Last week’s episode of the ConsEUmer podcast was guest-hosted by my colleague Yaël Ossowski. Give it a listen!
ConsEUmer podcast / EP22: Junk food ads, Consumer privacy, and Streaming quotas (w/ Fernando Valdés)
This week: 🍔 The EU wants to crack down on junk food ads 💽 Yaël Ossowski presents his new policy note on data privacy 🇨🇿 The Czech Republic drops anti-consumer rules 🇲🇽 Mexican streaming quotas are bad (so are the European ones) (w/ Fernando Valdés) You can follow Fernando Valdés on Twitter @fervaldes_ and the […]
EP11: Meat war, Czech food nationalism, and geo-blocking (w/ Ryan Khurana)
In the eleventh episode of ConsEUmer: 🥩 EU wants to restrict red meat 🇨🇿 CZ wants food nationalism 🍔 Veggie-burger fight continues 🚫 Geo-blocking for streaming (w/ Ryan Khurana) Follow Ryan Khurana on Twitter @RyanKhurana February, 4 2021 Follow ConsEUmer wherever you get your podcasts: Apple: https://apple.co/2HR4TLTSpotify: https://spoti.fi/3l3GZdxGoogle podcasts: https://bit.ly/3fyyzto
[Video] Débat sur la 5G: Sven Clement et Brent Frère
Cette vidéo a été enregistré avec et pour le Lëtzebuerger Journal au décembre 2020, dans le cadre du show “Elo mol éierlech” (Soyons honnêtes). La vidéo est disponible gratuitement sur le site web de Journal. Voici un court extrait: Si vous souhaitez soutenir le journalisme indépendant au Luxembourg, vous pouvez vous abonner à Journal pour […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP5: Train Year, Fake Gifts, Rule of Law (w/ Adam Bartha)
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
Modern agriculture is actively under threat — we need to save it
Mycotoxins represent an active and palpable threat to the health of consumers, with millions affected particularly in developing nations. The open hostility towards certain crop protection measures has emphasised this problem, as fungicides are coming under fire. The scientific method and consumer health should be the metrics of public agricultural policy.
[Video] Interviewed by Scully for the Free Market Series on PBS
I was interviewed by Scully for Season 6 the Free Market Series on PBS. Click down below to watch the full video.
Gewollt oder nicht, Julia Klöckner treibt die Gen-Revolution positiv an
Im Jahr 2012 haben Prof. Dr. Thorsten Stafforst und sein Team an der Universität Tübingen entdeckt, dass man durch die Verknüpfung von Enzymen mit manipulierten RNA-Strängen Gene verändern kann. Neben Ribonukleinsäure (RNA) kommen mittlerweile auch andere Methoden im Bereich Gen-Editing zur Anwendungen, am bekanntesten ist wahrscheinlich die Genschere CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats). […]
In Africa, a locust plague is seriously endangering food security
As Europe is dealing with Coronavirus, Africa is looking at the most devastating locust plague in decades. Europeans are panic-buying in the supermarkets around the continent – toilet paper, pasta, and many other items that people fear will soon be out of stock. The retailers are being overrun, but the only real shortage is that […]