BEUC - The European Consumer Organisation

How honest is the Honest Bank? When financial advisors get paid to sell greenwashed and poorly performing products, consumers and the climate lose out. This begs the question: who really decides how you invest your money? You or your bank?   It's time for EU legislators to make sure people's money is invested where they want, and not where's best for the finance industry.   It's time to #FixSustainableFinance Find out more: https://lnkd.in/eFt5F6p5

Who really decides how you invest your money? You or your bank 🤔 ? When financial advisors get paid to sell greenwashed and poorly performing products, consumers and the climate lose out...and we get answers like this 👇 It's time to #FixSustainableFinance! Find out more 👉 https://lnkd.in/eFt5F6p5

Consumers are completely kept in the dark about how much data processing takes place or for which purposes, regardless of the choice they make with the #MetaSmokescreen. We intend to stop Meta.

To better align its trade and Green Deal policies, the EU should adapt its laws, make sure they are enforced and improve the content of its trade agreements. Here are our 4 recommendations to make it happen ⤵️

Dynamic pricing offers the potential to shift some consumer use of electricity from peak to off-peak hours. Our report explores these potential advantages and must inspire enforcers and policymakers to make these offers more widespread ⤵️

JOB VACANCY | We are looking for a legal officer based in Brussels to reinforce our work on enforcement and redress. 👉 The position will focus on improving the enforcement of consumer rights across the EU by supporting BEUC’s and our members’ activities. 👉 Various tasks in the area of enforcement and redress, including research, exchanges with various stakeholders, preparation of meetings. 👉 Co-ordinate enforcement activities with our members. 👉 Contribute to BEUC’s work in the field of enforcement and redress with drafting position papers and actively engaging in our campaigns.

🚨 Greenwashing alert! The #ParisOlympics #Paris2024 kicks off today and it's pledged to be the greenest ever. But its sponsor Coca Cola is the biggest plastic polluter on the planet. Consumers don't want to #TastetheWaste ♻ It's time for authorities to crack down on greenwashing: https://lnkd.in/e7ba4Gkv

Appliances like the gas boiler may keep many of us warm in the depths of winter, but they are also heating up the planet. Heating will have to become cleaner. Our energy team tells you more ⤵️

We're excited to help in organising the Tech and Society Summit coordinated by @edri! This invite-only event will bring civil society’s voices to the forefront of the EU’s digital policy debates, addressing Big Tech’s influence, online safety, and digital enforcement. #EUTechSociety

VACANCY | Legal Officer – Competition Law and Policy We have a great opportunity available to represent consumer and societal interests in cutting edge competition and #DMA cases and to advocate for consumers’ interests in the development of competition policy and legislation.   In recent years BEUC has, for example, been involved in high-profile cases such as Google Shopping, Google Android, Amazon Marketplace, Apple Music Streaming as well as several important mergers in the digital and non-digital sectors. Does that sound appealing? Apply now: https://lnkd.in/e3TFTCTD