Thursday, 30 September 2010

Feeling jaded - short note on marketing tricks against consumers

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Are you interested, just as I am, in consumer behavior research? If yes, have you noticed that since you started reading all the literature ...
Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Behavioural Economics, so What: Should Policy-Makers Care? - conference in Brussels on 22 November 2010

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Two years ago I attended a first conference organized by European Commission on Behavioural Economics and it was very useful and interesting...
Wednesday, 22 September 2010

No EU group action for consumers

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EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding told the Financial Times Deutschland in an interview that there will be no legislative proposal for ...

Towards an e-market.eu - EP resolution on completing the internal market for e-commerce

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Yesterday, the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the completion of the internal market for e-commerce. It calls upon the European...
Thursday, 16 September 2010

Sweep investigation electronic goods

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The ECJ today reported success as a result of the sweep investigation on the online sales of electronic goods (cameras, MP3 players, etc). T...
Tuesday, 7 September 2010

Strawberry vs cherry yoghurt aka Lidl v Vierzon in C-159/09 - AG's opinion on comparative and misleading advertising

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7 September 2010: ECJ Advocate General's opinion in case C-159/09 Lidl v Vierzon Advocate General gave today its opinion in the Lidl v V...
Monday, 6 September 2010

New measures aiming at enhance financial consumer protection in Europe through prudential regulation

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EU negotiators reached agreement on a package of measures to beef up supervision of the bloc's banks, giving new EU watchdogs a mandate...
Monday, 30 August 2010

Eyjafjallajökull's aftermath: informal guidelines on Regulation 261/2004

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Informal guidelines are now available for the application of Regulation 261/2004 (denied boarding, cancellation and delay of flights) regar...
Thursday, 26 August 2010

Keeping up-to-date with DG Justice

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A new website from DG Justice, created on 1 July 2010, offers a clear and concise overview of recent developments in European contract law a...
Thursday, 19 August 2010

Vacation

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It was a summer vacation time not only for the authors of this blog but also, luckily, for the ECJ and many other authorities that could sig...