Frederik Roeder

Frederik Roeder is Managing Director of the Consumer Choice Center.

Articles

Policy

Sustainable aviation cannot take off without eco-pragmatism

In the global search for greener pastures, regulators worldwide are grappling with the challenge of making aviation fuels more sustainable. The European Union has taken a leading role and introduced legislation known as ReFuelEU, which mandates a gradual increase in the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAFs). The journey towards sustainable aviation faces obstacles, notably […]

Health

The folly of opposing patents on a Covid vaccine

Doctors Without Borders does incredible work in the interest of patients around the globe. It has an exemplary track record of bringing doctors to the front lines of combat zones, famines, and pandemics — helping those patients that are left alone and victims of large crises. During the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa, MSF […]

Health

It’s time for the UK to bring drug approval into the 21st century

Settling Brexit has been a byzantine process, but it’s got nothing on the UK’s opaque and outright baffling system of pharmaceutical drug availability and research. Every year the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), the UK’s national drug regulator, approves dozens of new medicines, including both the newest patented medicines and lower-cost generic drugs. […]

Enterprise

How German patent law cripples innovation and curbs consumer choice

Patent protection laws aim to incentivize innovation and to allow the inventor and investor to benefit financially from their invention. Furthermore copycats that free ride someone else’s invention shall be legally prevented from doing this for a set amount of time. But patent laws in many countries, Germany among these, have helped incentivize an entirely […]