Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Consumer Protection" produced 260 items.
| 1. Across the digital divide | January 26, 2012 |
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The EU is struggling to realise the potential of the internet to boost the European economy. The European Council will next week be looking for ways to deliver jobs and... |
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| 2. Reding seeks EU-wide sales law | October 6, 2011 |
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Proposal aims to improve cross-border trade. Businesses selling goods anywhere in the European Union could, for the first time, choose to be covered by the same set of... |
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| 3. Reforms put business first | October 6, 2011 |
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The EU wants governments and universities to do more to make sure that industry has enough quality graduates. When the European Commission proposed a significant increase in... |
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| 4. Putting consumers first | June 23, 2011 |
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Better choices for consumers across Europe. European consumers want better deals and businesses want to sell products in more countries. That is the simple rationale for an... |
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| 5. Why the optional instrument is the wrong way for consumers | June 16, 2011 |
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Contract-law initiative would not deliver added value for consumers. In his letter last week (“Consumers need more than protection” 9-15 June), Martijn Hesselink... |
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| 6. Agreement on consumer-protection law | June 9, 2011 |
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Proposed law aimed at harmonising consumer protection across the EU.
A provisional deal has been struck between negotiators for the European Parliament, the European... |
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| 7. Poland to champion e-commerce reform | June 1, 2011 |
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Poland's presidency to focus on boosting e-commerce and dismantling online barriers to trade. Poland wants to use its forthcoming presidency of the European Union's Council... | |
| 8. Consumer groups fear EU-wide contract law will affect rights | May 5, 2011 |
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Fears that Commission proposals will water down proposals. Viviane Reding, the European commissioner for justice, is set to push ahead with legislative proposals for an... | |
| 9. A lack of harmony hurts consumers and the EU | March 31, 2011 |
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A 'canary in the mine' that augurs badly for the competitiveness pact. You noted on 24 March that the European Parliament voted in favour of a proposal that could give a... | |
| 10. MEPs support tougher consumer protection laws | March 24, 2011 |
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European Parliament's position could affect rights in some countries, consumer group warns. MEPs have backed planned laws aimed at strengthening rights of consumers, notably... | |
| 11. Split over bankruptcy plan | March 24, 2011 |
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Commission seeks to improve protection but insurance industry sceptical about proposals. Battle-lines are being drawn between EU policymakers and the insurance industry over... |
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| 12. MEPs to back online deal | March 24, 2011 |
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MEPs to vote in favour of consumer-rights directive. Companies selling goods or services over the internet would have to request customers to click a button confirming that... | |
| 13. Protecting unmarried bliss | March 17, 2011 |
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Slovenia calls for EU asset rules to also deal with unmarried couples. In the article “Reding seeks to clarify matrimonial assets rules” (10-16 March), you stated that... |
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| 14. Honesty is not a certainty | March 17, 2011 |
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Consumer-rights directive may end up harming e-commerce. The Council of Ministers and the European Parliament say they wish to promote e-commerce, but their approach to the... |
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| 15. MEPs ready to back updated consumer rights directive | March 17, 2011 |
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Lead MEP caters to Green and Socialist demands, but Member states want rules to be limited to online sales. The new directive on consumer rights may at last win wide support... |
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| 16. Divide over plans for group compensation for customers | March 10, 2011 |
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EU plans would enable group compensation for practices such as price-fixing. Consumer groups are at odds with business in pressing for legislation to allow groups of... | |
| 17. Farmers' friend | March 3, 2011 |
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Germany's minister for food and farming is very different from the scowling, heavy-set men who preceded her. Ilse Aigner is an odd fit for Germany's ministry for food,... |
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| 18. Consumer groups concerned about scope of new rights laws | January 27, 2011 |
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MEPs to vote on a laws governing the rights of consumers.
Business and consumer groups are awaiting the results of a crucial vote by MEPs on a new set of laws governing... |
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| 19. Cover for downloads fuels consumer rights debate | January 13, 2011 |
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Consumer groups call for greater protection for people who download. The likely exclusion of digital content from planned EU rules on consumer rights is stoking... |
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| 20. Talks on group compensation to resume | October 7, 2010 |
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Commission to re-start debate on or ‘collective redress'. The European Commission will next week take the first step to re-start a controversial debate on EU legislation... |
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