Consumers will foot the bill for extravagant organic goals… As I’ve previously explained on this website, the EU’s organic ambitions are seriously misled, because contrary to popular belief, organic food is neither...
Protecting brands is not just about economics, it is also about human rights… The hardships in factories around South-East Asia aren’t new to European media consumers. Thousands of workers all...
Le gouvernement ne veut que votre bien – et il vous le montre… en vous traitant comme un enfant et en vous empêchant de faire vos propres choix, même dans...
I’ve become somewhat of a streaming junkie during this pandemic, following up on the criticism that my pop-culture knowledge is sub-optimal. Now subscribed to three services at once, I watch...
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...
This position is in response to the 1st-phase consultation on platform work regulation by the European Commission. The Consumer Choice Center is a consumer organisation, thus not amongst the categories...
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, argues Bill Wirtz....
“Rail passenger rights” are paid by consumers… The European Parliament’s TRAN committee recently approved new rail passenger rights legislation. With this new text, rail companies will be obligated to re-route...
Par Bill Wirtz Avez-vous déjà acheté quelque chose à cause de l’image d’une marque ? Certainement, surtout lorsque l’emballage est très voyant et séduisant. Si nous devions nier que nous...
Genetic engineering continues not to be allowed in the EU, but random mutagenesis is. Despite revolutionising agriculture, genetic engineering is not allowed in the European Union. I have laid out...
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...
Oxfam regularly releases new reports on inequality and keeps getting it wrong. So let’s revisit an older report to show how the next one is likely to be flawed once...
