SWEDEN PREPARES TO CONTINUE FIGHT OVER EUROPEAN SNUS BAN
November 1st, 2012
BY GERARD O'DWYER, IN HELSINKI, AND CARMEN PAUN, IN BRUSSELS
THE SWEDISH government is using the publicity over the resignation of European Union (EU) health commissioner John Dalli in October over a snus lobbying scandal to restate its case that the EU should legalise the sale of snus in all member states, a market area that Sweden's snus producers say is worth Euro EUR2 billion annually.
Sweden has intensified contacts with the European Commission to push for the removal of the pan-EU ban on snus, from which Sweden has been exempted since it joined the EU in ...
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