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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11835

25 July 2017
SECTORAL POLICIES / Health
Discussion on renewal of alcohol strategy sidesteps issue of labelling
Brussels, 24/07/2017 (Agence Europe)

European Union efforts to tackle alcohol abuse are still attracting much attention. Anticipating the comments of European health ministers meeting in informal session in Tallinn on Thursday 20 and Friday 21 July, Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis stated that everyone had to share the burden.

“The EU alone can’t raise the age to drink, national taxes on alcohol, regulate ways and conditions to sell alcohol nor impose zero tolerance”, he said.

It is for the member states to determine...

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