monique goyens

DG of @beuc, the consumer voice in EU, with 30+ y experience in consumer policy. Full belief in smart consumption. Views expressed personal but convinced.

[The Consumer Voice @beuc]

🚆 Railway to consumer heaven? Our latest #ConsumerDebate explored how the EU can make rail travel the go-to option for all. Improving timetables, enhancing comfort, & lowering ticket prices are just a few of the fixes needed. We get you up to speed in less than 2mn⤵️

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

This is a not-so-disguised attempt to buy votes & it's a clear cut violation of federal law against paying people to register & vote.

We'll be filing a complaint with the Federal Election Commission challenging Musk’s latest denigration of the right to vote freely & fairly.

[European Ombudsman @EUombudsman]

We have found maladministration in @EU_Commission failure to meet legal deadlines for preparing authorisation decisions concerning dangerous chemicals.

Decisions take 14.5 months on average despite 3-month deadline, with the chemicals remaining in use during the process.

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[ClientEarth Europe @ClientEarthEUR]

BREAKING The @EU_Commission takes around 14.5 months to decide whether to allow companies to continue using banned chemicals. That's almost five times the legal limit and constitutes maladministration, @EUombudsman confirmed today. Read our press release: https://t.co/76PsgNWUbC

[Fatih Birol @fbirol]

Cost-competitive electric cars are making inroads in a range of markets & into oil demand, with their share of new car sales set to rise from around 20% towards 50% by 2030

Even if their uptake slows in key markets in the coming years, a peak in oil demand remains on the horizon

[Camille Perrin @Perrin_Cam]

👏 Food businesses can help consumers eat healthier! In one year, the number of ready-made meals with whole grains has more than doubled in 🇳🇱, research by @beuc member @Consumentenbond found. Retailers are leading the way, with Lidl as the frontrunner.

[European Court of Auditors @EUauditors]

🌍🍽️ Food labelling in the EU – are consumers well informed?🍎🌱

On this year’s #WorldFoodDay, we highlight the importance of informed food choices. 📊 Did you know that the EU has a complex food-labelling system? It is designed to help consumers make informed decisions, but is it really effective? 🤔

👉 The European Court of Auditors has been auditing EU food labels to evaluate their transparency and reliability for consumers. Stay tuned for our upcoming special report on food labelling in the EU, which will be published on Monday, 25 November 2024! 📅

❓ Curious about the audit’s background? Check out this newsletter post to learn more about the start of this audit 👇
🔗 https://t.co/r8EL9wHZNS

#FoodLabelling #EUauditors

[Civil Society Organisations' Group of the EESC @CSOGroupEESC]

Today at our @EU_EESC Consumers & Environment Category, spokespersons @Thierrylt and Bernardo Hernández Bataller welcomed @moniquegoyens, retiring Director @beuc to debate on the overview of the work carried out by BEUC & outlook
👏 Dear Monique, thank you for the excellent work!

[Civil Society Organisations' Group of the EESC @CSOGroupEESC]

In thanking @moniquegoyens, retiring Director of @beuc, President @smsboland called on Banks and the large digital companies to make #consumer protection as their🔝priority!

Consumers are loosing millions of euros as a result of scams that these companies are failing to prevent!

[ANEC | Raising standards for consumers @anectweet]

The #consumer movement, and consumers more generally, have benefitted hugely from @moniquegoyens contribution and her leadership of @beuc. She will be missed.

[The Consumer Voice @beuc]

At the @EU_Competition workshop ‘Protecting competition in a changing world’, Vanessa Turner underlined that the Commission itself has found that competition has weakened in the EU in many markets, which caused prices to rise for consumers. This is bad news.

[The Consumer Voice @beuc]

We need to strengthen competition policy, not weaken its rules, including on merger control. More in our blog post: https://t.co/9zncMlCfED

[European Environmental Bureau @Green_Europe]

Council asks Commission to take effective measures for Chemicals Strategy implementation as key part of #GreenDeal

⚠️Accelerate efforts for REACH revision and PFAS restriction #foreverchemicals

🛑Urged to stop the exports of highly hazardous chemicals

https://t.co/gHm0hBCoE0

[monique goyens @moniquegoyens]

Sigh. As member of that dialogue I utterly regret that @COPACOGECA goes on business as usual against all scientific evidence that we need more plant based diets. They still don't get it that agriculture is not just about farmers.

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

“Really dangerous”: Farmers hate the results of Ursula von der Leyen’s reform dialogue.
https://t.co/ASa9rmAz6c

[Goulaff 🇪🇺 @Goulaff]

Top la couverture des élections communales et le détail par communes sur le site @RTBFinfo👍
Et dire que certains veulent définancer le service public tout en consultant les chiffres sur le site. Tartuffes.

[monique goyens @moniquegoyens]

This would deserve à major outcry. These ministers care more about the wine economy than abt health of their citizens. Oh wait, at the same time they cut public health budgets!

[Camille Perrin @Perrin_Cam]

😳 Ehm what?!
Replace “wine” with “tobacco”or “junk food” in the sentence and the schizophrenic (and cynical) nature of this discussion becomes evident …. So much for #PublicHealth….
Via @POLITICOEurope

[Camille Perrin @Perrin_Cam]

😳 Ehm what?!
Replace “wine” with “tobacco”or “junk food” in the sentence and the schizophrenic (and cynical) nature of this discussion becomes evident …. So much for #PublicHealth….
Via @POLITICOEurope

[Arthur Sente @ArthurSente]

Sur base d'une requête introduite par l'intéressé, le tribunal de 1e instance de Liège interdit au Soir de publier un article concernant Maxime Degey (MR), candidat-bourgmestre à Verviers

Un nouveau cas de censure en Belgique qui doit nous indigner
https://t.co/grJHSgkLoX

[The Consumer Voice @beuc]

Good news that the Commission is looking further into whether Temu complies with the #DSA! This is a follow-up to our complaints from May where we raised many problematic issues on Temu. Consumers deserve better.
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https://t.co/aIs0dFP4l3

[Margrethe Vestager @vestager]

Temu must provide the requested information by 21 October 2024. @EU_Commission will then assess Temu’s replies, and determine the next steps.

This could entail the opening of a formal investigation under the Digital Services Act.

More https://t.co/X3IXSkwyX3