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EU consumer rights laws

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After nearly three years and over a thousand amendments, MEPs have finally voted in committee on legislation that is supposed to strengthen the rights of consumers shopping in stores and online.

However according to some campaigners the rules could end up watering down rather than strengthening peoples' rights.

Discussing the plans with The Record Europe's Shirin Wheeler are the British Labour MEP from the consumer protection committee Catherine Stihler and the deputy director general of BEUC, the European Consumers' Organisation Ursula Pachl.

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