Why Today’s European Climate Marchers Will Be Tomorrow’s Yellow Vest Protesters
They’ll start slowly, merely demanding that all carbon emissions stop immediately. For months, young climate marchers have taken over Europe and the US. Now we know what they actually want—and it’s exactly what we thought it would be. Why They March If you’re unfamiliar with the “Youth4Climate” or “Fridays for Future” movement, it’s probably because, […]
Vous n’êtes pas assez intelligent pour comprendre le mot “végétarien”
Pour le Parlement européen, les consommateurs pourraient être trompés par le marquage ambiguë de certains produits. Le comité de l’agriculture du Parlement européen (AGRI) a soutenu l’amendement de compromis n°41 le 1er avril. Ce texte demande l’interdiction de nommer des produits alimentaires à base de plantes avec des appellations faisant référence à de la viande […]
How to solve Europe’s obesity problem
Give responsibility to individuals Bill Wirtz is a policy analyst for the Consumer Choice Center. Twitter: @wirtzbill The measures that the World Health Organization suggests to tackle diseases caused by malnutrition, tobacco or alcohol are not only contrary to consumer choice, they also do not achieve their objectives. Excessive price increases and branding bans have fostered […]
Studie zu Netzsicherheit und Datenschutz »DSGVO greift im Zeitalter von 5G zu kurz«
Die Autoren der Studie schlagen einen multifaktoriellen Ansatz vor, um Verbraucher und deren Daten in Zeiten massiv erhöhter Vernetzung zu schützen. Das Consumer Choice Center hat eine Studie zum Thema Datenschutz und Netzsicherheit in Europa veröffentlicht. Speziellen Fokus legen die Autoren auf den Kontext IoT und den Ausbau von 5G-Netzen. Die Autoren, Mikołaj Barczentewicz and […]
Falsch Verbunden – Fünf Thesen zum deutschen Datenstau
Exportweltmeister und Wirtschaftsmacht, aber trotzdem Digitalverlierer. Dass Deutschland so schlecht verbunden ist, hat viele Gründe. Hier sind fünf davon, gesammelt von unserem Gastautor Fred Cyrus Roeder, Ökonom und Geschäftsführer des Consumer Choice Centers. Deutschland, die digitale Wüste in der Datenverkehr nur im Schneckentempo vorankommt: Aktuell gehört dieses Bild zu jeder guten politischen Diskussion. Dafür, dass sämtliche […]
European Lawmakers Take Action to Protect People from Veggie Burgers
The European Parliament Agriculture Committee advanced a proposal that would ban calling a veggie burger a “burger.” “Consumer Protection” The European Parliament Agriculture Committee (AGRI) supported compromise Amendment Number 41 on April 1. The amendment calls for a ban on denominations of plant-based food products as containing meat or dairy products. In essence, names such […]
L’UE voudrait encore plus taxer les billets d’avion
La création d’une nouvelle taxe sur les vols aériens, afin de réduire l’impact environnemental, occupe nos bureaucrates européens. Le gouvernement néerlandais propose d’instaurer une taxe de transport aérien de 7€ sur tous les vols au départ et à l’arrivée de l’Union européenne. Selon La Haye, l’Europe a un problème majeur dû à un trop grand […]
Consumer Choice Center Presents signatories of ‘Brands Matter’ pledge
The Consumer Choice Center (CCC) has revealed the names of the 25 signatories of the ‘Brands Matter’ pledge. The CCC is aiming to gain support for the cause of brand freedom in the European Parliament and get clear responses from lawmakers on this vital consumer issue. Commenting on the pledge, Luca Bertoletti, European Affairs Manager of the […]
What #AdvertisingBans get wrong about #ConsumerBehaviour
Advertising bans are increasingly relevant in political debate, with some countries having already established rules that don’t allow for “junk food” advertising. But these proposals are all based on the assumptions that consumers are buying goods that they never would have wanted otherwise, writes Bill Wirtz. The fundamental question is: Can you make people buy something […]
25 MEPs support brand freedom
Consumer Choice Center presents signatories of “Brands Matter” pledge Brussels, BE – The Consumer Choice Center (CCC) has revealed the names of the 25 signatories of the “Brands Matter” pledge. The CCC is aiming to gain support for the cause of brand freedom in the European Parliament, and get clear responses from lawmakers on this vital […]
Europe Is Not an Example for the Green New Deal in Practice
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal” suggests replacing air travel with high-speed rail connections. But the comparisons drawn with Europe ignore that despite massive investments on the Old Continent, prices remain non-competitive with air travel and that state-run rail crumbles under its own inefficiency. In a piece for Vox, Umair Irfan writes “High-speed trains already compete […]
The real price of a new EU-US trade war
Last month, trade commissioner Cecilia Malmström told European trade ministers that if President Trump hits the EU with 25 per cent tariffs on cars, Brussels is prepared to hit back with tariffs on some $20 billion worth of American exports. Trade wars don’t involve the outright destruction of military action, but both kinds of conflict put […]
