Luxembourg, 09/05/2007 (Agence Europe) - In the morning of 8 May, the Court of Justice heard the arguments in case C-167/05, European Commission v Sweden. The Commission claims that, by taxing wine more heavily than beer, the Swedish excise duty system encourages beer consumption to the detriment of the wine market. With beer, unlike wine, being domestically produced, the Commission considers that there has been a breach of Article 90 of the EC Treaty, which states that “no member state...