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Glyphosate lobbying intensifies ahead of EU vote

HORTICULTURE WEEK: “Any effort to ban pesticides which have been deemed safe by European health agencies will only end up raising the cost of food for consumers here and across the world,” said the Consumer Choice Center.

Governments are cracking down on Uber because they don’t understand it

RARE: By attempting to shoehorn Uber into taxi regulations, consumers lose out on the innovativeness the platform provides.

European protectionism steps up a gear

COMMENT CENTRAL: The efforts of European bicycle manufacturers to lobby for tariffs to be levied on their international rivals will dampen competition and hurt consumers, writes Bill Wirtz.

Stripping Uber of its license is harmful to Londoners

SPEAK FREELY: This TfL decision, by reducing choice, is not only anti-competitive, but anti-consumer, anti-worker, and anti-innovation. They have made a costly mistake in what is meant to be an open and forward thinking city.

EU helps countries crack down on food firms selling inferior products

GUARDIAN: The move was attacked by Fred Roeder, the managing director of the Consumer Choice Center, who said the commission was responding to populist voices in eastern European governments.

EU helps countries crack down on food firms selling inferior products

EXEC REVIEW: Consumer Choice Center, an organisation campaigning for deregulation, said the commission was responding to populist voices in eastern European governments.

The march against science: How left-wingers are exploiting dodgy research

THE BACKBENCHER: Science does not tell us a certain product is bad without understanding what the alternative products are. To think in such a way is a dangerous idealism that ignores reality. Policy should be consistent with the totality of scientific data, but not motivated by it, and not piecemeal.

The UK is currently thrashing the EU on green issues

THE BACKBENCHER: EU member states recently released their 2015 emissions data, and the projections on whether they were on track to meet their 2020 goals.

Who’s really anti-science?

SPIKED: NGOs, policymakers continue to push misguided regulations that are counterproductive to science – in the name of science. 

If the EU Burdens Biomass, the Environment Loses

DAILY GLOBE: EU regulations and burdens to the biomass industry would have harmful effects to the environment and consumers.

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