Author: Bill Wirtz

It will mean something different to everyone. The Farm to Fork Strategy of the European Union attempts to foster sustainability in the agricultural sector. While sustainability is a laudable goal...

There is ongoing disagreement between the popularly elected European Parliament and the executives in the European Commission over approvals of “genetically modified” (GM) crops, which are made with modern molecular...

L’Union européenne élabore ses plans pour taxer les services numériques : vraie avancée pour le consommateur et l’équité commerciale… ou moyen de renflouer les caisses après une année de Covid-19 très...

Spoiler alert: consumers will. Ever since the recovery package of the European Union was sent on its way through the institutions in Brussels, everyone knew that the joint debt obligations...

Parents are the best judges of the education of their children. The European Union regulates so-called “junk food” advertising, in order to protect children from exposure to harmful content. Its...

En novembre 2020, la “European Round Table on Climate Change” a accepté un document sur le concept de taxe carbone prélevé à la frontière, également connu sous le nom de...

Les démocraties libérales devraient simplement s’abstenir de la mesure intrusive d’un passeport vaccinal. À Bruxelles, la Commission européenne et les États membres ont peaufiné les détails du soi-disant certificat vert numérique de...

Comme beaucoup de personnes durant cette pandémie, je suis devenu un peu un accro au streaming. J’ai pu ainsi rattraper le “retard” que j’avais soi-disant accumulé concernant ma connaissance de...

Here’s a change of heart we can support… Back in January I published a blog post on this site asking the question of whether the new generation of COVID-19 vaccines will change...

Imitating the United States’ surveillance state methods will not make Europeans safer… The European Union has been going through the process of creating a counter-terorrism database (CTR) that will compile...

Emissions and costs of this debate have been weigh on consumers… I was recently reminded of the effects of the long-lasting Diesel controversy on a trip to the Netherlands. The...

The EU has long considered levying a tax of between two and six percent on the local revenues of platform giants. The prospect of trade talks with the US has...