The ConsEUmer Podcast

The ConsEUmer Podcast

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The ConsEUmer Podcast episodes

  • EP43: Crypto rules, Gene-edited tomatoes, and Brexit divergence (w/ Tom Spencer)

    In the last ConsEUmer episode in September:

    ₿ Looking at crypto regulation (w/ Yaël Ossowski)

    🍅 Gene-edited tomatoes are new in Japan

    🇬🇧 Where will the UK diverge with Brexit? (w/ Tom Spencer)

    You can Tom Spencer on Twitter @tomjackspencer.

    September 30, 2021

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    26 min
  • EP42: Green fuels under fire, Autobahn limits, and UK tax hikes (w/ Alys Watson Brown)

    In this week's episode of ConsEUmer:

    ⛽ Two airline CEOs are critical of green fuels

    🚗 Germany debates speed limits (w/ Fred Roeder)

    🧑‍🌾 Farmers criticise the Farm to Fork strategy

    🇬🇧 The UK national insurance tax hike (w/ Alys Watson Brown)

    You can follow Alys Watson Brown on Twitter @alyswatsonbrown.

    September 23, 2021

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    29 min
  • EP41: State of the Union, Forced labour ban, and Sustainable Beer (w/ Sébastien Morvan)

    New week, new ConsEUmer episode hosted by Bill Wirtz (@wirtzbill). This week:

    🇪🇺 Agriculture was missing in the State of the Union speech

    🚫 EU Commission announces ban on forced labour products from China

    🍻 Sébastien Morvan chats to us about the Brussels Beer Project

    Can you find the Brussels Beer Project on www.beerproject.be

    September 16, 2021

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    22 min
  • EP40: French protectionism, Swedish freedom, and Czech PM vs. the EU (w/ Jan Mošovský)

    Episode 40 of ConsEUmer is out! This week:

    🇫🇷 France wants stricter rules for food imports

    🇸🇪 Sweden drops restrictions on September 29

    🇨🇿 Czech PM Babiš targeted by the EU

    You can follow Jan Mošovský on Twitter @JanMosovsky.

    September 9, 2021

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    27 min
  • EP39: France blames airlines, Best football stadiums, and Mycotoxins (w/ Kanniah Rajasekaran PhD)

    How's this September for you, and how about a new episode of ConsEUmer? This week:

    🇫🇷 France reprimands airlines for not properly checking QR codes

    🏟️ CCC ranks the best football stadiums (w/ Fabio Fernandes)

    🌱 Mycotoxins are real and dangerous (w/ Kanniah Rajasekaran PhD)

    September 2, 2021

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    35 min
  • EP38: Replaying Dr. Kathleen Hefferon on Sustainability, Innovation Agriculture

    🌟 Your regular scheduled programming is interrupted by Bill's holidays, but there's a replay of an interview that many CCC social media followers haven't seen yet. Kathleen Hefferon PhD gives unique insides into plant pathology, emphasising the importance of crop protection.

    🐦 You can follow Dr. Kathleen Hefferon on Twitter @KHefferon

    August 26, 2021

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    28 min
  • EP37: Right-to-die, Facebook goes shopping, and the EU's free-market neighbour (w/ Zurab Tchiaberashvili)

    It's a new episode of ConsEUmer, with these topics:

    🚲 The "Dutch Cycling Embassy" makes spurious claims

    🇪🇺 The EU doesn't like Facebook's latest purchase (w/ Yaël Ossowski)

    🇮🇹 Italians campaign for the "right to die"

    🇬🇪 Georgia is the EU's free-market neighbour (w/ Zurab Tchiaberashvili)

    Link to "Dutch Cycling Embassy" post: https://bit.ly/3sqP813

    You can follow Zurab Tchiaberashvili on Twitter @ZTCH

    August 19, 2021

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    41 min
  • EP36: The organic lobby, Germany votes, and Protests in Bulgaria (w/ Nikolay Filibev)

    Mid-summer episode of ConsEUmer, with your host Bill Wirtz (@wirtzbill). In this week's episode:

    🌱 Environmental groups want organic-only by 2035

    🧳 Travelling to the EU from visa-exempt countries will be harder from next year on

    🇩🇪 Germany is voting next month (w/ Fred Roeder)

    🇧🇬 Bulgarians protest government over wiretapping scandal (w/ Nikolay Filibev)

    You can follow Nikolay Filibev on Twitter @filibev.

    August 12, 2021

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    29 min
  • EP35: Amazon (not) fine, WHO attacks vaping, and the Stubborn Swiss Neighbour? (w/ Frédéric Jollien)

    It's August, so let the sun shine and ConsEUmer play in your ears! ☀️In this week's episode:

    📦Amazon gets fined by Luxembourg over data use

    💨 The World Health Organization gets vaping wrong (w/ Michael Landl)

    🇨🇭Switzerland backs out of trade negotiations with the EU (w/ Frédéric Jollien)

    You can follow Frédéric Jollien on Twitter @JollienF.

    August 5, 2021

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    27 min
  • EP34: SPECIAL EPISODE with the CCC Team!

    A special episode this week, feature some members of the CCC team! We talk about:

    💉COVID-19 vaccinations

    🔌Switching petrol cars for electric, does it work?

    🚗The divide in the sharing economy

    Featuring Maria Chaplia, Liz Hicks, Luka Dzagania!

    July 29, 2021

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    35 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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