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  Following a call from the European Commission and EU consumer authorities, five industry leaders, Avis, Europcar, Enterprise, Hertz and Sixt, have changed the way they present car rental prices, making them fully transparent to consumers. The companies concerned had not fully implemented some of their commitments in order for the European Commission and EU…

This article was published on Horizon – The EU Research and Innovation Magazine on 7 October 2019 The radiation emitted by 5G will largely be the same as previous networks, except that it will be exposing us to something called milimetre waves for the first time. The fifth generation of mobile internet is fast approaching. Countries…

In the latest edition of the Future of Jobs Report, the World Economic Forum (WEF), once more tapped into the collective knowledge of the frontlines who are in the best position to observe the dynamics of workforces – Executives, especially Chief Human Resources Officers, of some of the world’s largest employers. They were asked to…

CEDEFOP – The skills that job providers want! 65% of children entering primary school today may ultimately end up working in completely new types of job that do not yet exist. Scott McLeod and Karl Fisch advanced this hypothesis several years ago in their widely discussed Shift happens analysis. While such  findings may be…

ANEC and BEUC Position paper In recent years, consumers’ daily lives have become increasingly connected and digitalised. With the Internet of Things (IoT), the number of connected devices and services skyrocketed and interconnectivity between products reached all sectors of society (transport, health, banking, energy, etc.). According to recent estimations from the European Commission, there…

Safety/usability of products & services for people with disabilities & older people; Access to information society by older people & people with disabilities (e-Accessibility). A deeper and fairer Internal Market is one of the European Commission’s priorities and European consumer policy aims to maximise consumer participation and trust in the market. However, while the…

Every day the European Commission receives alerts from national authorities in the EU/EEA concerning dangerous products found on their markets. These alerts are sent through the rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products – “Safety Gate”. They include information about the type of products found, the risks posed and the measures taken at national level…

Representing 106 organisations of and/or working for older people, delegates of AGE Platform Europe’s members from 24 countries gathered for their annual General Assembly and Annual Conference from 12 to 14 June 2019, to express their wish to engage with our political and institutional actors to find solutions and address demographic and climate challenges….

Since 12 October 2018, consumers started to benefit from the use of standardised graphical symbols to help them know which fuel, of an increasing number of alternative fuels, is suitable for their vehicles. The growing diversity of fuels available on the market indicated an increasing need to provide the rising number of vehicle users…