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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 7983
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/financial markets

Motivated opinion to Sweden for discrimination towards wine

Brussels, 13/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - As previously indicated on Tuesday, the European Commission decided to send a motivated opinion to Sweden calling upon it to put an end to the discrimination hitting wine to the benefit of Swedish beers. According to the European executive, the price of wine on the Swedish market is artificially inflated by a system of taxation taking into account the volume of alcohol and the basic price of the product, two criteria that disqualify wine, whose basic...

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