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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10908

28 August 2013
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) health
Tobacco directive - pharmaceutical industry steps up lobbying

Brussels, 27/08/2013 (Agence Europe) - In an article published on 26 August by the Polish weekly, Uwazam Rze, two Polish MEPs accuse the rapporteur on the tobacco directive, Linda McAvan (S&D, UK), of giving way to the lobbying of the pharmaceutical industry. With the European institutions soon to be back at work after the summer break and wrangling likely to start up swiftly on the new directive, especially with the plenary vote of the European Parliament vote in September, MEP Zbigniew...