In a letter published on Monday 9 December, the Finance Ministries of the Netherlands and fifteen other EU Member States - Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia and Spain - call on the European Commission to modernise tobacco taxation legislation.
They are also calling for this proposed revision to be “a key priority of its next term of office”, and for it to be presented “by spring...