Green Santa is coming to town – a year clamping down on greenwashing
BEUC has been involved in fighting greenwashing for many years and 2023 was the year where we stepped up our game. We expanded our effort cross-teams, looking at different areas of consumers’ lives and how we can make them free...
Sandra Lima, BEUC Consumer Rights Team, BEUC Consumer Redress and Enforcement Team, BEUC Sustainability Team and BEUC Food Team /
December 20, 2023
Car electrification must go hand-in-hand with promoting alternatives to car use
Consumers must be able to break out of a mobility system that fundamentally relies on fossil fuels. Both car electrification as well as the promotion of alternatives to car use are needed here.
Bursting the crypto bubble – why it’s time to act against social media platforms
The misleading promotion of crypto is rife on social media. BEUC's Andrew Canning explains why it's time to take action against the platforms in order to protect consumers.
Will consumers be able to choose what happens to their health data through the European Health Data Space?
From our latest medical prescriptions to our exercise habits, everything related to our health says something about us.
What’s for lunch? Helping consumers make healthy and sustainable food choices
Consumers do not have a “free choice” of what foods they want to eat. The less healthy and less sustainable option is the widely available and often more affordable one. It's time to make the healthy and sustainable choice the...
The future of payments: why we need an inclusive digital euro
In an increasingly digitalised world, a digital euro offers many advantages but only if it can mirror the key characteristics of cash, writes Anna Martin.
Food Label Ambush: How intense industry lobbying halted EU plans
Countless meetings, disinformation and even threats of increased immigration… how lobbyists turned the Commission’s food information plans on their head – to the detriment of consumers.
Safe and eco-friendly period: menstrual cups to the rescue
This month, the EU Ecolabel – Europe’s trustworthy green label – introduces stronger requirements for hygiene products, writes Miriam Thiemann. We’re having a closer look at the newcomer - menstrual cups – and answer some common questions.
If Amazon is not a ‘Very Large Online Platform’, who is?
Last year, the EU adopted a landmark regulation which aims to create a safer and more accountable online environment for consumers, known as the Digital Services Act (DSA). But internet giant Amazon seems to be playing legal tricks to delay...
Why competition authorities must act now against ‘greedflation’
The cost of living crisis is putting consumers' budgets under pressure. What's more, there's increasing evidence that some of the inflation driving this is being caused by corporate profiteering writes Vanessa Turner.