EU HEALTH MINISTERS AGREE NEED FOR EUROPEAN ALCOHOL HARM REDUCTION POLICIES
April 21st, 2015
A MEETING of European Union (EU) health ministers in Riga this week has backed the development of a new policy for reducing alcohol-related harm. Ministers, meeting informally in the capital of current EU president Latvia on April 20 to 21, also agreed that the EU should play a role in creating general alcohol standards for the international market and in the harmonisation of EU national alcohol policies. A communiqué from the Latvian government said health ministers confirmed “that the five EU Alcohol Strategy priorities — pricing and tax measures, ...
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