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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8295

12 September 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/taxation
Most Commissioners oppose introduction of low excise duty on wine

Brussels, 11/09/2002 (Agence Europe) - Taxation Commissioner Frits Bolkestein's tentative idea about harmonising excise duty on wine may well wither on the vine, following the discussions of the idea at the Commissioners' College on Wednesday (see Europe of 7 September, p.8). Some sources suggest that 14 of the 20 Commissioners oppose this harmonisation idea on the grounds that the political damage wreaked by such an unpopular measure in wine producing countries meant it would not be worth...

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