NEW YORK CASE

BY ALAN OSBORNTHE EUROPEAN Commission has been attacked for displaying "aggressive and unnecessary behaviour" against the tobacco industry after it announced that it intended to pursue its "smuggling" case against Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds and others in New York after the American court rejected the case on jurisdictional grounds.A senior British conservative member of the European Parliament, Roger Helmer, of the east Midlands, expressed surprise at Brussels follow up case. "What they're up to I can't imagine," Mr Helmer told World Tobacco. "The European ...


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