An EU probe finds problems with many European websites offering finance while medical product safety is in question after the breast implant scare.

The News: Consumers in the dark

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More than two thirds  of European websites offering services

like personal loans,  credit card contracts and car financing

might not respect the law,  an EU probe has found.

Problems include misleading information  about costs and offer terms.

But nobody wants to name the suspects,  and consumers remain in the dark.

We don't know as consumers  which websites are illegal or not,

and that's why we as the consumer  organisation ask the Commission

and the national authorities to name and  shame those websites which are not legal.

The breast implant health scare  involving potentially thousands of women

is raising questions  about medical product safety in Europe.

MEPs of the European People's Party,  the biggest bloc in the EP,

want medical products like implants,  pacemakers and even crutches

to require EU approval  before they are allowed on the market.

Currently only medicines  require EU authorisation.

And the outgoing EP leader,  Jerzy Buzek,

has held the last Facebook chat  of his Presidency.

He listed the major challenges  of his 2.5 year term

as last year's budget debate and the SWIFT  data protection agreement with the US.

Buzek, who steps down next week,  says perhaps his biggest regret

was that Europe did not do more  to improve human rights in Belarus.

As to when his native Poland will adopt the  euro, the President says, 'In a few years.'