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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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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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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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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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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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🌟 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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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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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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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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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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The ConsEUmer Podcast is a weekly program that covers the news & politics of the European Union and its member states.
Produced by the Consumer Choice Center, we focus on consumer issues such as free trade, science-based policy-making, product safety, and privacy — but we won't shy away from commentary on the day to day of the European Union's institutions.
Stay tuned for exclusive interviews with policy-makers and experts, hosted by our Senior Policy Analyst Bill Wirtz.

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