Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Consumer Scoreboard Part II: How integrated are European Retail Markets?

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According to the Scoreboard, consumers are still somewhat hesitant in their attitude towards cross-border shopping. Around one third of Eur...
Tuesday, 29 May 2012

7th Consumer Scoreboard

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Today the European Commission published the results of the 7th Consumer Scoreboard, a monitoring tool addressing the position of the consu...
Monday, 28 May 2012

Small world (III) - Towards a European cloud computing strategy

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On 21 and 22 June 2012, a Digital Agenda assembly will take place. The assembly will, among other topics, address cloud computing, in pre...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012

The New Consumer Agenda

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The European Commission today published "The New Consumer Agenda", which replaces the "Consumer Policy Strategy 2007-2013...

Kind of blue

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Do you have an idea how much water you use every day, or what is the 'water footprint' of goods such as jeans, hamburgers or beer? ...
Monday, 21 May 2012

BEUC's 2020 vision

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This month, BEUC, the European consumers' organisation, published its views on European consumer policy (available in English, French a...
Thursday, 17 May 2012

Brave new world

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What would your great-grandmother have thought of you checking your mailbox thirty times a day, commenting on your friends' holiday pho...

Do traffic lights help in preventing accidents?

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... apparently not always. Here we will not talk about traffic jam in our busy cities, but rather... sandwiches. In the debate betwee...
Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Health claims

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Today the European Commission approved a list of 222 health claims - e.g. that calcium influences bone health - that may be used in adver...