Freedom of Choice: Articles & News
Open letter to the Director General of WHI to support innovation and intellectual property rights protection. Health requires both of them. Innovation and intellectual property must be at the core of the next World Health Assembly organized by the WHO. Competere, along with a coalition of European think tanks, has published and sent to the Director General […]
ForFreeChoice joins the Renew Democracy Initiative (RDI) RDI’s Manifesto: 1. The modern world is at risk of losing its way. The liberal-democratic order is under attack from within and without. In response, a Committee has been formed to respond to the crisis. This document describes the crisis and outlines the responses necessary to meet […]
Today we celebrate the World IP Day. Protecting intellectual property rights is fundamental to foster innovation and economic growth. World IP Day, ForFreeChoice, in partnership with Property Rights Alliance, is proud to stand with content creators and rights holders around the world to fight for stronger, more effective intellectual property rights. This year ForFreeChoice is especially proud to […]
As the European Commission prepares to release its long-awaited and controversial review of pharmaceutical innovation incentives, a coalition of think tanks, NGOs and academics from a range of European countries today urge policymakers to put innovation at the heart of it. “Innovation is paramount to Europe’s future economic growth. Yet EU member states underspend on […]
“Five Years of Failure!” That’s the message a global coalition of 62 think tanks and rights advocates are sending to the new WHO Director Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus in reference to the plain packaging policy the organization continues to promote. Five years ago, Australia became the first country to fully implement plain packaging by denying all […]
The Australian plain packaging legislation was implemented in December 2012. Since then, trademarks, logos, non-prescribed colors and graphics have been removed from packs. But 5 years later, there is no evidence that plain packaging has achieved (or is likely to achieve) any public health benefits. The Australian plain packaging legislation was implemented in December 2012. […]
For the last years, the world’s major food wholesalers (10 mega-groups) have been pushing for the EU Commission and Parliament to adopt a directive that obliges all member states to adopt the nutritional traffic light system. It would be a real threat for citizen’s right to be correctly informed. Our freedom of choice is being […]
Numbers are clear, the food chain is a colander. Every year, about a third of the world food production for human consumption is lost or wasted along the chain – about 1.6 billion tons of food. Food waste has an enormous environmental impact. But action plans to reduce and recover non-viable food products in Europe are being […]
What if the European Commission, besides regularizing a good part of your life, also told you what you should buy and what not, what to enjoy and what you have to avoid. Can you do it? Because we can’t: just the thought of that is rather distressing. Anyway, often reality overcomes imagination. This is what […]
Every year corruption sends more than $ 2 trillion in smoke, according to an OECD study. Yet international organizations such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, who should not miss this deficit, not only seem to be unaware of anything, but they continue to fill the cash of corrupt states with loans […]