EU PREPARES TO LAUNCH ALCOHOL CONTROL POLICIES IN AUTUMN
August 1st, 2006
BY ALAN OSBORN
CURRENT European Union (EU) president Finland will this year urge fellow member states to raise the political profile of alcohol across Europe as a threat to public health, bringing in specific measures to curb abuses. Its views are particularly important this year, because the European Commission is buffing up just such a plan for release in September or October, and the Finns will be pushing or agreement at the EU Council of Ministers in December. In an interview with just-drinks.com Ismo Tuominen, counsellor and head of alcohol policy at ...
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