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We represent 44 independent national consumer organisations in Brussels and defend the interests of European consumers.
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Indeed - but that would be up to national governments to decide 🚲
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This was part of a BEUC-coordinated study in four European countries (🇫🇷 🇪🇸 🇨🇿 🇳🇱) to look at the real lived experienced of heat pump owners. The study looked at the benefits heat pumps can bring to people’s homes and what policymakers can learn from consumers' experience of using them:
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When it comes to platform addiction, children are especially at risk. But a safer digital world benefits everyone. The more we protect the whole online ecosystem, the less we need targeted fixes. Read more about our position on protecting children online 👇 #CPDP2025 www.beuc.eu/position-pap...
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What does digital fairness mean for consumers? Read more: www.beuc.eu/position-pap...
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1️⃣ Online consumers face losses due to unfair practices online & are very often faced with dark patterns
2️⃣ Current EU consumer law needs updating to provide legal certainty and enhance consumer trust (like the DFA)
3️⃣ Better enforcement is needed but it cannot replace the need to fill regulatory gaps
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When purchasing online, EU consumers expect products and services to comply with EU law and adhere to fair trade practices, therefore they have a legitimate expectation of quality and durability. Read more: www.beuc.eu/factsheets/e...
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Read the full report 👉 www.beuc.eu/reports/comm...
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The case was lodged by our German member vzbv against Google and boosts BEUC's coordinated action from 2022 which claims that Google unfairly steered consumers towards its surveillance system when they signed up to a Google account 💪
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Together with consumer and digital right groups in the U.S. (cc. @tacd-consumers.bsky.social), we opposed the use of coercive tariffs by the U.S. to attack EU laws protecting people. Read more ⤵️
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🟦 Consumers are calling for:
✔️ A firm EU response
✔️ Protection of key standards
✔️ More Europe, not less.
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🌍 No trade-offs:
• 80% say don’t weaken food safety
• 76% say protect digital security
• 60% say stay firm on sustainability
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🪙 Over 90% say tariffs will negatively impact both their own countries’ economies AND the EU as a whole.
🏠 83% expect a higher cost of living.
💥 69% support EU counter-tariffs on U.S. products.
🧭 Consumers want Europe to stand its ground even if the economic payoff isn’t clear.
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BEUC calls on MEPs and Member States to clarify, by law, that consumers should be able to bring a small item and a piece of hand luggage at no extra cost, in line with what 86% of surveyed consumers responded in our 🇳🇱Member @consumentenbond.bsky.social's study
www.consumentenbond.nl/acties-claim...
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@ageplatformeu.bsky.social @myedf.bsky.social European Passengers' Federation, Centre Européen des Consommateurs France, Zentrum für Europäischen Verbraucherschutz e. V. / Centre Européen de la Consommation
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