The Internet has dramatically changed the way citizens travel, prepare and book travel arrangements. Travellers have greater access to information, prices and to greater choice and convenience. They can create their own itineraries online with the help of digital tools such as travel planning we...
The transition to a circular economy is at an early stage in the EU. Regulations, markets, investment tools and practices, including financial risk assessment, are adjusted to linear models. Externalities linked to linear business models are largely not taken into account. This poses a problem f...
In order to make a consistent selection of top OSM providers per country, we used three sources of data: Alexa country ranks, Similarweb country ranks within the “Social Media” category, and APPlyzer ranking data collected from the Apple and Google app stores. A fourth source, Apptopia, was used...
With 360 million Europeans using the internet daily to work, study, shop or stay connected, Europe needs a quality Digital Single Market. The success of the Digital Single Market ultimately depends on the confidence and trust of Europeans. As the use of online platforms has reached unprecedented...
This study on the functioning of retail electricity markets for consumers in the EU is the follow up to the first market study conducted in 2009/2010, and published by the European Commission in 2010. The objectives of the current study are to investigate if a well-functioning electricity market...
According to the Methodological Guidelines of the study, Task 1 “Mapping and analysis of existing studies on consumer habits” is based upon the following works: - Review of studies compiled in the 2008 survey to check whether authors/institutions listed at that time have continued to produce ana...
This study, commissioned by the Policy Department for Citizens’ Rights and Constitutional Affairs upon request of the Committee on Petitions, finds out that EU animal welfare policy and legislation has had much positive influence in the world, on the image of the EU as well as helping animals. H...
This report updates and extends earlier assessments of quantitative inflation perceptions and expectations of consumers in the euro area and the EU, using an anonymised micro data set collected by the European Commission in the context of the Harmonised EU Programme of Business and Consumer Surv...
etail services are a key intermediary service in the modern economy acting as the conduit between thousands of product suppliers and consumers: according to Eurostat (2013), retail services account for 4.3% of the EU’s GDP, 8.3% of European employees and 17% of SMEs. Over the past decade, the Eu...