Euroconsumers Forum 2024

Mark your calendars for December 5th in the beautiful city of Brussels! Last year’s edition was defined by the launch of Euroconsumers’ new brand signature and manifesto ‘Empower people, improve the market’. This year’s Euroconsumers Forum will demonstrate our clear commitment to translate this mission and vision into concrete initiatives : Empower people, improve the market - going into action!

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Apple doesn’t play fair!

Apple didn’t play fair. As a big tech player, Apple abused its power to impose up to 30% extra charges on non-Apple music streaming services like Spotify, Deezer, YouTube Music, SoundCloud, Amazon Music, Tidal, and Qobuz through its Apple App Store. This led to higher prices for consumers and unfair competition. Euroconsumers is standing up to Apple's unfair play and launches a class action to reclaim these undue excess fees for consumers.

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Report - Not available when you need it the most: the case of drug shortages

Shortages of medicines are a growing public health threat, affecting consumers’ lives in more than one way. Dive into consumers’ first-hand experience with shortages of medicines in Belgium, Italy, Spain and Portugal, get to know how big the problem really is and how it is impacting consumers every day.

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Major success for Euroconsumers’ Italian organisation

Altroconsumo secures impressive 50 million settlement for 60,000 participants to Dieselgate class action in Italy

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EU Election Fever: taking consumers’ temperature

With the European elections on the horizon, we are not only exploring people’s views on the European Union; we’re uncovering their hopes, fears, and everything in between.

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Empower people, improve the market.

Gathering five national consumer organisations and giving voice to a total of more than 1,5 million people in Italy (Altroconsumo), Belgium (Test Aankoop), Spain (OCU), Portugal (DecoProteste) and Brazil (Proteste), Euroconsumers is the world’s leading consumer cluster in innovative information, personalised services and defence of consumer rights.

Webinars

Thu November 21 2024 15:00:00 GMT+0200
Sustainability

The heat is on: can consumers warm to heat pumps?

Europe’s ready for a home heating revolution—but demand for heat pumps has taken a nosedive after years of steady growth. Are ...

Thu October 31 2024 15:00:00 GMT+0200
Digital

Refurb rising: how good is as ‘good as new’?

Refurbished goods seem to be everywhere now. Shops and online marketplaces promise new smartphones or laptops that are ‘as good...

Mon September 23 2024 15:00:00 GMT+0200
Economy

Renting consumer “products as a service”: costly gimmick or green dream?

Are consumers ready for the end of ownership? Do they trust companies to look after them and their product and do they actually wa...

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21.05.2024

Euroconsumers’ Temu safety tests underpin importance of major ne...

Temu has not just ramped up the speed of online shopping but the volume of unsafe products. Safety tests by Euroconsumers members are supporting a major new DSA complaint to European authorities. ...
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News
20.11.2024

OCU fights to ease the olive oil price surge

The price of olive oil in Spain is finally dropping. After OCU’s success in getting VAT cut, it now wants more action to bring down the cost of other basic foods. ...
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News
18.11.2024

People vs fake news: consumers lack agency to join the fake news battl...

Euroconsumers new survey finds 78% of consumers are worried about fake news but have few routes to take action. ...
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News
15.11.2024

Estamos Contigo: OCU helps those affected by the devastating floods in...

We are with you. As the DANA weather system threatens to bring more chaos to southern Spain. Euroconsumers Spanish member OCU says "we are with you" and does what it does best - advising, guiding and ...
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News
08.11.2024

New consumer commissioner has the chance to fix problems for children ...

Risks to children in the digital era are nothing new, can the new Consumer Commissioner put them right and make a fun, safe and fair online environment for them? ...
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Projects
31.10.2024

REPper takes first steps with a celebration of repair opportunities

Euroconsumers Spanish, Italian and Portuguese members celebrate with a festival of repair and share knowledge on a new website....
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Three letters that will shake up Europe’s auto industry

Europe needs an automotive strategy that is good for consumers, the climate and for industry. That’s why tariffs – if they come – should be complemented by an additional push on electrification, especially in the company car segment. BYD, those three letters that will become so familiar to Europeans this summer, stands for ‘Build Your Dreams’. Europe’s carmakers and politicians need to act now to stop it from Breaking (Y)our Dreams.

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Big Data or Big Brother? Online consumer protection in the age of artificial intelligence

As a result, data is becoming the new oil of our connected society. It should be seen as a reservoir filled to the brim with a precious resource that has the potential of unlocking previously unseen added value. It begs the question: is privacy an outdated concept, or even an illusion, in our digital world?

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Online scams: will AI increase the hidden cost on consumers?

Beyond financial loss, scams can have a profound psychological impact, and this is something that is not talked about enough. While the financial losses and methods of scam delivery often make the headlines, victims are left isolated with feelings of shame, guilt, and decreased trust in their own judgment.

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Towards sustainable food systems: empowering consumers and enhancing food sovereignty in the EU

We need to merge innovation with culinary tradition in order to create a sustainable and inclusive food system for everyone. Engaging in the consumer experience and understanding their reality should be the starting point, but achieving food affordability and security demands multifaceted systemic change.

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GenAI: from shock and awe to get stuck in and solve?

Crudely put, industry, investors and governments are excited about its potential, and keen to stake out an early lead in the space, whilst of course acknowledging risks. Civil society on the other hand is trepidatious. Digital rights organisations have a long understanding of how the products of mass, social, data-driven technology can be used to discriminate and exclude people and diminish human rights and wellbeing.

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From Digital Consumers to Digital Citizens: A New Narrative in the Age of AI

Have we considered how every click, search, and digital interaction contributes to the vast ocean of data without which generative AI and LLMs wouldn't exist? After all, we are not just data points; we are, each of us, the architects of the digital future. The choice of what that future becomes is, and should always be, all of ours.

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Can changes made after 2008 protect us from another financial crisis?

‘As such, the regulator must take firm measures to supervise these financial institutions more vigorously. Banking accidents are not limited to the banking sector. The challenges of our societies require an economy that is solid on its foundations.’

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Our European member organisations are part of the umbrella network of BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation. Together we advocate for EU policies that benefit consumers in their daily lives.

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