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 […]
ForFreeChoice calls EU Commission and Institutions to stop the Italian discrimination of foreign wheat. It is a violation of free trade principle and fair competition. Last August the Italian government passed a bill that introduced the obligation to indicate the origin of wheat on pasta labels. Minister Carlo Calenda (Economic Development) and Minister Maurizio Martina […]
From 2017 on, all cigarette packs in my host-country France have to be sold in the format of the so-called “neutral pack.” This implies that the pack will have the brand name in a neutral font, a colourless pack, and even bigger warning labels and shocking pictures of tobacco-derived diseases. This government measure mostly intends […]
Flashy BMW cars, a pristine villa in downtown Geneva, United Nations diplomatic credentials, and close to 2.2 million EUR in profit: welcome to the lucrative life of a UN cigarette smuggler. In August, two employees of the diplomatic mission of Iraq to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland were accused of abusing their diplomatic status […]