Customer choice, not regulation, drives food standards
COMMENT CENTRAL: Ill-considered campaign slogans in Hungary and the Czech Republic are not the basis for improvements in food standards, writes Bill Wirtz.
COMMENT CENTRAL: Ill-considered campaign slogans in Hungary and the Czech Republic are not the basis for improvements in food standards, writes Bill Wirtz.
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM – Now that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has entered the fray of criticizing taste diversity in Europe, it’s more important than ever to realize the populist implications this could have across Europe. Fred Roeder, Managing Director of the Consumer Choice Center, responds. “Taste diversity is a fact in Europe and it’s very much what makes […]
TRANSITIONS ONLINE: The CCC says consumers are free to switch brands and that the decision made by the EU pandered to populism.
EXEC REVIEW: Consumer Choice Center, an organisation campaigning for deregulation, said the commission was responding to populist voices in eastern European governments.
EURACTIV GR: Consumer Choice Center quoted on the dual food quality debate in Greece.
EURACTIV: Juncker’s declaration a “populist move,” according to the Consumer Choice Center.
POLITICO PRO: Consumer Choice Center — which bills itself as group defending consumers against protectionism — told Morning Agri that what studies governments have conducted to date are “either of questionable design or lack any statistical backing.”