Euroconsumers - Empower people, improve the market.
- ️Mon Mar 17 2025
Gathering five national consumer organisations and giving voice to a total of more than 1,5 million people in Italy (Altroconsumo), Belgium (Test Aankoop), Spain (OCU), Portugal (DecoProteste) and Brazil (Proteste), Euroconsumers is the world’s leading consumer cluster in innovative information, personalised services and defence of consumer rights.
Webinars
Global Anti Scam Summit: urgent action needed to support scam victims ...
Euroconsumers, UK Home Office and Global Anti Scams Alliance co-host the biggest ever Global Anti Scam Summit next week in London and keep the focus firmly on victim impact....
Read More
FUTURENZYME: Unlocking enzyme tech for greener consumer products
Find out how innovative enzyme technology can be an accessible, sustainable alternative to toxic chemicals in household products and industry. ...
Read More
World Consumer Rights Day: What sustainable choices are consumers maki...
On World Consumers Rights Day 2025 we ask what’s working and what’s holding back sustainability in consumer decision-making....
Read More
The REPper project is showing what it takes to grow a repair mindset
As part of the REPper project, Altroconsumo, OCU and DECOProteste are taking action to make repair the preferred option for people if their products break down too soon....
Read More
Sustainable consumption and production: are we ready for change?
Resetting our production and consumption systems is key to achieving a sustainable economy. But are we ready to make the changes needed in the next five years of the Commission? ...
Read More
The AI generations: from now to next
The Euroconsumers Forum showed how people are using Generative AI, and how the next generation of AI leaders is being built from the bottom up....
Read MoreNewsletter
Sign up for our newsletter and stay in touch
By clicking Subscribe button you agree with our Privacy Policy.
Opinions
The other side of early obsolescence: we need to change the way we value what we own
The Right to repair is a welcome move, but that alone won’t solve another major cause of early obsolescence: the fact that many of us are still throwing away products in perfect working order.
Ruth Mugge
| Professor in Design for Sustainable Consumer Behaviour at Delft University of Technology
Three letters that will shake up Europe’s auto industry
Europe needs an automotive strategy that is good for consumers, the climate and for industry. That’s why tariffs – if they come – should be complemented by an additional push on electrification, especially in the company car segment. BYD, those three letters that will become so familiar to Europeans this summer, stands for ‘Build Your Dreams’. Europe’s carmakers and politicians need to act now to stop it from Breaking (Y)our Dreams.
William Todts
| Executive Director of Transport & Environment
Big Data or Big Brother? Online consumer protection in the age of artificial intelligence
As a result, data is becoming the new oil of our connected society. It should be seen as a reservoir filled to the brim with a precious resource that has the potential of unlocking previously unseen added value. It begs the question: is privacy an outdated concept, or even an illusion, in our digital world?
Filip Van den Abeele
| engineer, entrepreneur and author of the book ‘Technology Wonders’
Online scams: will AI increase the hidden cost on consumers?
Beyond financial loss, scams can have a profound psychological impact, and this is something that is not talked about enough. While the financial losses and methods of scam delivery often make the headlines, victims are left isolated with feelings of shame, guilt, and decreased trust in their own judgment.
Jorij Abraham
| Head of the Global Anti-Scam Alliance
Towards sustainable food systems: empowering consumers and enhancing food sovereignty in the EU
We need to merge innovation with culinary tradition in order to create a sustainable and inclusive food system for everyone. Engaging in the consumer experience and understanding their reality should be the starting point, but achieving food affordability and security demands multifaceted systemic change.
Marco Pierani
| Director Public Affairs & Media Relations, Euroconsumers
GenAI: from shock and awe to get stuck in and solve?
Crudely put, industry, investors and governments are excited about its potential, and keen to stake out an early lead in the space, whilst of course acknowledging risks. Civil society on the other hand is trepidatious. Digital rights organisations have a long understanding of how the products of mass, social, data-driven technology can be used to discriminate and exclude people and diminish human rights and wellbeing.
Liz Coll
| Founder of Connected Consumers
From Digital Consumers to Digital Citizens: A New Narrative in the Age of AI
Have we considered how every click, search, and digital interaction contributes to the vast ocean of data without which generative AI and LLMs wouldn't exist? After all, we are not just data points; we are, each of us, the architects of the digital future. The choice of what that future becomes is, and should always be, all of ours.
StJohn Deakins
| Founder and CEO of CitizenMe
Can changes made after 2008 protect us from another financial crisis?
‘As such, the regulator must take firm measures to supervise these financial institutions more vigorously. Banking accidents are not limited to the banking sector. The challenges of our societies require an economy that is solid on its foundations.’
Samain Pierre
| Financial Analysts, Euroconsumers
We Work For The Consumer
Our European member organisations are part of the umbrella network of BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation. Together we advocate for EU policies that benefit consumers in their daily lives.
View More