Merry Christmas ! Thank for listening to this podcast in 2024, and we'll be back with new episodes in the coming year.

These topics in this episode:

– New EU Commission wants to make your flights more expensive (again)

– Keep some cash at home, says the Dutch National Bank

– Legal weed will debut in some Dutch cities in April

December 19, 2024

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CCC Research Manager Emil Panzaru joins us on this episode to discuss the latest Sharing Economy Index and how they got to their findings.

Check out the report here: https://consumerchoicecenter.org/sharing-economy-index-2024/

December 5, 2024

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Yaël Ossowski is co-hosting this week's episode. We're talking about the French government getting its priorities wrong by planning on banning nicotine pouches. Also, the EU continues to struggles to push the EU-Mercosur free trade agreement over the line.

November 28, 2024

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Pieter Cleppe joins us this week to discuss the potential incoming tariffs under the Trump administration. Also, my colleague Egle joins us to lay out the latest in EU tech news, aaaaand the city of Lisbon bans night flights.

November 14, 2024

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Solo for this week's episode, but with these stories:

🇺🇸 Trump's election breeds bad news for EU-US trade

⛐ 2035 car ban might go off-road

🇭🇺 Hungary's Commissioner pick facing opposition

November 7, 2024

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In this week's episode of the ConsEUmer podcast, Fabio Fernandes and Bill Wirtz discuss the future of Airbnb, as well as pending regulations on auto-play and infinite scroll on social media platforms.

Note: sorry about missing last week's episode due to sickness!

October 31, 2024

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In this week's episode, Donald Kimball from the Washington Policy Center ** mistakenly said institute on the recording, apologies **, joins us to discuss what the potential breakup of Google would mean for consumers. Also, meat producers lobbying against the use of the word "sausage" in meat substitute products lost at the ECJ, and rail competition with private companies has boosted rail use in the Czech Republic.

October 17, 2024

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Going solo in this week's episodes, where I'll tell you more about the procedures establishing the next European Commission. Also in this episode: the Netherlands opposes blanket screening of instant messaging services like WhatsApp, and the mayor of Paris faces a major battle over the reduced speed limits on Paris' peripheral roads.

October 3, 2024

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