Reports

BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation, together with 13 consumer groups from 13 countries (Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain and the Netherlands), conducted an evidence-gathering to document the widespread financial scams on Meta, TikTok and Google as well as the limited corrective measures platforms take to prevent their circulation. The screenshots were taken between December 2025 and March 2026. Consumer groups collected 893 examples. This annex does not intend to provide the exhaustive list of ads, but highlights key examples collected per organisation.

The days of gas as a home-heating solution will eventually come to an end, as consumers move to cleaner options like heat pumps.

This will mean the gas network will become increasingly unused with the remaining consumers connected to it having to pay for it. Without public support, this will mean significant costs for consumers, according to a new report from BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation.

The rising costs of maintaining the gas network will also disproportionately impact those least able to switch to cleaner heating options (for example, vulnerable consumers or tenants).

The European Consumer Organisation – BEUC, takes the view that Meta’s latest changes on its ‘consent-for-ads’ model would still not meet the requirements laid down in EU law, especially EU Regulation 2022/1925 (the Digital Markets Act - DMA), EU Regulation 2016/679 (the General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR) and EU Directive 2005/29 (the Unfair Commercial Practices Directive – the UCPD). Several crucial issues remain unsolved, including the ability of users to provide free, specific, informed and unambiguous consent given Meta’s extensive data collection, and the continued use of non-neutral language and interface design techniques which undermine the free choice of users.