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- EP33: Russia bans champagne, DST on hold, and Europe's Cannabis Awakening (w/ Deepak Anand)
Another week, another episode of ConsEUmer! This week:
🍾Russia bans champagne
💻 Digital Services Tax on hold
🌿Europe's challenges in legalising cannabis (w/ Deepak Anand)
You can follow Deepak Anand on Twitter @_deepakanand.
July 22, 2021
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32 min - EP32: Billionaires in space, Fit for 55, and Georgia in Turmoil (w/ Liza Katsiashvili)
Your host Bill Wirtz (@wirtzbill) is back this week with a new episode! In this show:
🚀 Billionaires are going to space, but not everyone is happy
🇪🇺 The EU releases climate package, but who pays?
🇬🇪 Georgia's protests (w/ Liza Katsiashvili)
You can follow Liza Katsiashvili on Twitter @LizKatsiashvili.
July 15, 2021
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32 min - EP31: Euro Tech Demolition Team (Hosted by Yaël Ossowski) — Featuring Bjorn Lomborg
Yaël Ossowski (@YaelOss) guest hosting for Bill Wirtz this week.
- The EU Commission sets out its Digital Markets Act plan to demolish the US tech sector
- Why there isn't a European Google
- Why antitrust actions won't serve consumers
- The European Climate Plan and Technology Neutrality
- Bill Gates and the Breakthrough Catalyst Program
- INTERVIEW: Bjorn Lomborg (@BjornLomborg) – President of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and several books on climate science and economics. He is the author of the newly released False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
- Book: https://amzn.to/3fP97PQ
- Real Climate Solutions
- The Impact of the Paris Climate Accords
- A crisis begets crisis-level spending but not action
July 8, 2021
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37 min - EP30: Electric vehicles, Vaping saves lives, and Belarus sanctions (w/ Adam Bartha)
Interview-heavy episode this week, as Bill is feeling slightly under the weather:
🔌 Buying an electric easy isn't always easy (w/ Liz Hicks)
💨 The World Vapers' Alliance launches new campaign (w/ Michael Landl)
🇱🇹 Fred Roeder interviews a Lithuanian MP on vaping (w/ Morgana Daniele)
🇧🇾 Do the sanction on the regime in Belarus work? (w/ Adam Bartha)
You can follow Adam Bartha on Twitter @bartha_adam
July 1, 2021
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32 min - EP29: EU kills petrol cars, Travelling in COVID times, and Stop the NIMBYS! (w/ Tom Spencer)
New week, new episode of ConsEUmer! This week:
⛽ The EU is planning the end of the petrol car
🦠 How to travel Europe in COVID times
🏘️ UK NIMBYs and where they're wrong (w/ Tom Spencer)
You can follow Tom Spencer on Twitter @TomJackSpencer
June 24, 2021
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29 min - EP28: Swiss vote, Bad bailouts, and Rental Hell (w/ Yaël Ossowski)
A new episode of ConsEUmer! This week:
🇨🇭The Swiss voted well
✈️ Bad bailouts (w/ Fred Roeder)
🚘 Crony rental car companies (w/ Yaël Ossowski)
June 17, 2021
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26 min - EP27: Minimum tax, New anti-vape laws, and Turkish booze restrictions (w/ Israfil Özkan)
Back with a new episode, this one even including live protest reporting from your host Bill Wirtz (@wirtzbill):
💸 G7 leaders want a minimum corporation tax
💨 A vape activist (Jorn Borgart) explains his journey with vaping
🇹🇷 Turkey is cracking down on booze (w/ Israfil Özkan)
You can follow the Israfil Özkan on Twitter @zknisrafil and the Turkish Public Alcohol Policy Watch @AlkolPolitika.
June 10, 2021
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32 min - EP26: ETS shenanigans, Prepared pandemic, and Ag Wars (w/ Benjamin Franke)
ConsEUmer is back with new episodes! This week:
📝 The EU wants to reform the Emissions Trading System (ETS)
🦠 Maria Chaplia presents the Pandemic Preparedness Index 2021
💨 Michael Landl explains how World Vape Day went this year
🚜 More on the Farm to Fork strategy (w/ Benjamin Franke)
You can follow the MEP Ulrike Müller on Twitter @UliMuellerMEP
June 3, 2021
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40 min - EP25: Fake smokes, Amazon win, and the Nanny State Index (w/ Chris Snowdon)
The last episode of ConsEUmer before a two-week break. In this week's episode:
🚬 Fake cigarettes are a threat
📦 Amazon wins appeal in tax case
👶 Chris Snowdon presents the Nanny State Index 2021
You can follow Chris Snowdon @cjsnowdon.
May 14, 2021
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25 min - EP24: Papers please, Fighting obesity, E-scooter Revolution (w/ Yaniv Rivlin)
It's the latest in ConsEUmer news, hosted by Bill Wirt (@wirtzbill). This week:
💉 How the EU COVID pass will work
🍔 Maria Chaplia talks about her new paper on junk food ad restrictions
🍷 Ireland introduces minimum alcohol pricing
🛴 E-scooters are taking over (w/ Yaniv Rivlin)
May 6, 2021
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About The ConsEUmer Podcast
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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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