On Friday 12 May, BEUC’s General Assembly gathering in London unanimously re-elected Örjan Brinkman from the Swedish Consumers’ Association to be its president for another 4-year term.
BEUC’s General Assembly also reconfirmed Gerjan Huis in ‘t Veld (from Dutch member Consumentenbond) as Vice-President. Luisa Crisigiovanni from Italy’s Altroconsumo was re-appointed to be BEUC’s treasurer.

The European Commission opened a formal investigation into Aspen Pharma's pricing practices for cancer medicines. BEUC had requested the European Commission in 2016 to investigate the company’s significant price increases for some of its anticancer medicines.

Today, The European Consumer Organisation has applied to be an interested third party to the European Commission’s competition investigations into Google’s Android and the WhatsApp/Facebook merger cases.

The European Commission has wrapped-up its investigation into the EU’s e-commerce sector. Today’s findings identified business practices which may restrict the purchase and sale of goods and digital content within the Single Market – ultimately hampering consumer choice and inflating prices.