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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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This week's episode is co-hosted with the CCC's U.S Affairs Analyst Elizabeth Hicks. We talk about the U.S presidential election, and the latest proposals by both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump for price controls.
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September 26, 2024
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This week's episode is co-hosted with Fabio Fernandes. We talk about the competitiveness and innovation report by former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, as well as the release of the iPhone 16 and some of the missing features that Europeans won't be able to enjoy.
September 12, 2024
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We're back from our summer break ! In this week's episode: dropshipping companies are under fire by a Dutch consumer watchdog, Brazil has banned the use of the social media platform X -- our colleague Lucas Palma joins us to discuss the details, and Matthias Bauer from ECIPE is on the programme to talk us through the latest news in the EU-China EV tariff saga.
Check out ECIPE's work on their website: https://ecipe.org/
September 5, 2024
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In this last episode before the summer break, we address falling beer sales in the Netherlands, and the ongoing Council battle of tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles. Also, Amrit Nanda from Plant ETP joins us to explain the latest on the Commission's regulatory changes on gene-editing.
Check out their "Plantastic Discoveries" on their website: https://www.plantetp.eu/information-hub/
July 18, 2024
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A brief hello this week. No regular episode. Last one out next week. Hustling before the summer break!
July 11, 2024
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Yaël Ossowski joins us this week to discuss the latest regulatory news for end-to-end encryption and artificial intelligence in the European Union. Regulators seemingly doing, again, more harm than good.
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July 4, 2024
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In this week's episode, we discuss the mayor of Barcelona's measure to cut Airbnb licenses, we bring on Yaël Ossowski to explain Apple facing new potential fines for self-preferencing, and Chief Marketing Officer of Ryanair joins us to discuss their fight with Online Travel Agents (OTAs), and how his airline believes that consumers are being scammed.
June 27, 2024
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Jan Burdinski is back on the podcast to discuss the most recent decision by the European Commission to consider tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.
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June 20, 2024
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Pieter Cleppe joins us on this week's episode to discuss the European elections that happened last week. Also in this episode: online retailers face fines in the Netherlands for deceptive discounts, and Swiss legislators criticise the ECHR for its climate change ruling.
June 13, 2024
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This week's episode is co-hosted with CCC board member Chad Swarthout, who joins us to discuss his views on the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPN) and the use of VR headsets like the Apple Vision Pro.
June 6, 2024
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Due to last minute changes, no guest this week, but a short episode with two news stories regardless: Paris faces Airbnb prices and hotels during the Olympics that do not increase as much as planned, and the European elections are happening next week, but are they inclusive?
May 30, 2024
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In this episode we talk about the incoming Dutch government, a new CCC project in Europe called EU Tech Loop, and we host EPICENTER Director Adam Bartha to discuss the protests in Georgia against the foreign agents law, and how the law will jeopardise the relationship between Georgia and the EU.
May 23, 2024
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Fabio Fernandes is helping us unpack the latest tech news this week. We're talking about why your iPhone's battery is draining way too quickly, and what we make of the latest innovations in LLM's, as well as Sam Altman's idea for "Universal Basic Compute".
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May 16, 2024
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Today's episode is co-hosted with the CCC's US Affairs Analyst Elizabeth Hicks! We're talking about Florida's ban on alternative meat products, and a UK law going after hidden fees and fake reviews.
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May 9, 2024
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This week I have some audio from last weekend's FDP party convention in Berlin, as well as stories about probes in Meta for disinformation tracking, and Bulgaria's new gambling ban.
May 2, 2024
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