The ConsEUmer Podcast

The ConsEUmer Podcast

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The ConsEUmer Podcast episodes

  • EP73: Agri-ultimatum for Turkey, CCC Research, and Flavour confusion (w/ Patrick Griffin)

    In this week's episode:

    🇹🇷 The EU is questioning Turkey's reliability on food trade

    🔎 Maria Chaplia takes us through the CCC's research in 2022

    💨 Flavour confusion: what policy-makers don't understand about harm reduction and the importance of flavours (w/ Patrick Griffin)

    Check out Vaporound Magazine: https://www.vapouround.co.uk/

    Follow Patrick Griffin on Twitter @chattopatrick.

    Patrick also recommends you checking out the ETHRA (European Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates) survey 2020! https://ethra.co/eu-survey

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    May 12, 2022

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    35 min
  • EP72: Macron re-elected, Poland and Bulgaria cut off, and Timmermans is wrong on F2F

    Bill Wirtz going solo in this week's episode, with these topics:

    🇫🇷 Macron re-elected in France's presidential election

    🏭 Poland and Bulgaria cut off Russias natural gas

    🚜 Commissioner Timmermans says tackles opportunistic critics of F2F

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    May 5, 2022

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    21 min
  • EP71: Goodbye masks, Chaotic summer, and The breakfast divide (co-hosted with Elizabeth Hicks)

    This week's episode of ConsEUmer is co-hosted with Elizabeth Hicks! We cover:

    😷 Florida judge overturns mask mandate in the United States

    🧑‍✈️ Airlines deal with staff shortages

    🥘 Should you eat three times a day?

    CNN Travel article: https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/travel-chaos-summer-2022/index.html

    BBC Future article: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220412-should-we-be-eating-three-meals-a-day

    Follow Elizabeth Hicks on Twitter @eohicks.

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    April 28, 2022

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    40 min
  • EP70: Performative caviar ban, Aviation under fire, and The importance of herbicides (w/ Prof. Jayson Lusk)

    In this week's ConsEUmer episode:

    🐟 Sanctions on Russian caviar don't mean much

    🛬 Environmentalists target aviation

    🌱 The importance of herbicides (w/ Prof. Jayson Lusk)

    Interview of the week was conducted by Yaël Ossowski and David Clement at Consumer Choice Radio. Check them out : 

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    You can follow Prof. Jayson Lusk on Twitter @jaysonlusk

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    April 21, 2022

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    28 min
  • EP69: Possible oil embargo, Spain looks to Brazil for sunflower, and France votes (w/ Sacha Benhamou)

    In this week's episode:

    🛢️ Will the EU impose an embargo on Russian oil?

    🌻 Spain looks to Brazil to replace sunflower oil

    🇫🇷 France voted in the first round of the presidential election (w/ Sacha Benhamou)

    You can follow Sacha Benhamou on Twitter @sachabenhamou_

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    April 14, 2022

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    23 min
  • EP68: F2F fight continues, Flavour bans are contested, and Lithuania's LNG market (w/ Rytis Valūnas)

    This week on the ConsEUmer podcast:

    🚜 Farm to Fork hangs in the balance

    😶‍🌫️ World Vapers' Alliance fights flavour bans (w/ Michael Landl)

    🇱🇹 LNG has changed Lithuania's gas market (w/ Rytis Valūnas)

    You can follow Rytis Valūnas on Twitter @rytisvalunas.

    He also runs a podcast! Check out his most recent interview with EU Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius here: https://youtu.be/A9-3sY-o6AA

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    April 7, 2022

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    37 min
  • EP67: Special episode! CCC team in the UAE

    This week the Consumer Choice Center team is in the United Arab Emirates for a staff retreat. Joining this special episode: Fred Roeder, Fabio Fernandes, Simon Lee, and Luka Dzagania. Our topics:

    ⚡ Energy dependence in Europe

    ₿ Crypto under fire energy use

    🍷 The latest in Nanny State rules

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    March 31, 2022

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    35 min
  • EP66: Hydrogen in question, New crypto regulations, and Nuclear Reversal in Germany? (w/ Rainer Klute)

    Another week, another episode of ConsEUmer! This week:

    ⚡ What happens to the EU's hydrogen policy?

    ₿ Bad crypto-currency amendments defeated in Brussels (w/ Aleksandar Kokotović)

    ☢️ Could Germany reverse policy on nuclear phase-outs? (w/ Rainer Klute)

    You can follow Rainer Klute on Twitter @rainer_klute and check out Nuklearia on https://nuklearia.de/

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    March 24, 2022

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    34 min
  • EP65: Sanctions & Superpowers (co-hosted w/ Fabio Fernandes)

    This week's ConsEUmer podcast is co-hosted with Fabio Fernandes. This week we cover the ongoing war in Ukraine and the repercussions on the European economy. 

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    You can follow Fabio Fernandes on Twitter @DeFariaeSilva.

    Check out his new podcast Liberdade Para Esolher: https://bit.ly/LiberdadeParaEscolher

    March 17, 2022

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    32 min
  • EP64: F2F under fire, Italy looks for gas alternatives, and Humanitarian aid to Ukrainians (w/ Martin Pánek)

    In this week's episode of ConsEUmer:

    🚜 The Farm to Fork strategy is coming under fire

    🇮🇹 Italy looks for alternatives to Russian gas (w/ Luca Bertoletti)

    🇺🇦 Martin Pánek talks about his experience on the Slovak-Ukrainian border

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    You can follow Martin Pánek on Twitter @mmister.

    March 10, 2022

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    31 min

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The ConsEUmer Podcast is a weekly program that covers the news & politics of the European Union and its member states.

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