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[Ireland] Govt passes 'plain packet' cigarettes, 'doesn't give a damn' about small retailers

Health Minister James Reilly announced Government approval for his controversial plans to force tobacco companies to use generic packaging, which he hopes to have enacted early next year. However, a retail group said that Dr Reilly doesn't care about in
Kildare Nationalist (ie)
added May 28, 2013 13:28
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[Hungary] DERI: Corruption allegations raised over government tobacco retail tender

The fight against corruption in Hungary - which is by no means a negligible phenomenon - has suffered a major setback with this controversy. The government was unable to show an honest face and the expectation that it acts in the best interest of the peop
International Law Office (uk)
added May 28, 2013 12:38
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[Europe, Italy, USA] La lobby della settimana: Big Tobacco [Lobby of the week: Big Tobacco]

The situation in Europe is different in the forms of regulation, but not unlike the substantive centrality of their lobbying of firms producing smoke. The scandal has seen Dalligate the European Commissioner for Consumer Rights and Protection of Health, J
L'Indro (it)
added May 28, 2013 12:33
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[Europe] SANCO Director's OLAF interrogation leaked

On Monday, New Europe published emails from high in the European Commission that detailed the Commission's secret rewriting of the Tobacco Directive, transforming it from an instrument to contain the harm that tobacco causes into an instrument that played
New Europe
added May 28, 2013 12:08
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[Europe, Malta] CASSOLA: Is EU hiding something? ($$)

What was supposed to be an act of accusation against a single European Commissioner has boomeranged into a fully-fledged attack against the head of the Anti-Fraud office of the EU, Giovanni Kessler, and even against the European Commission president.
Times of Malta (mt)
added May 28, 2013 06:42
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Revision of smoking ban in Bulgaria is not a populist measure: MP

“There is a need to allow smoking at night entrainment establishments after 11 p.m.,” said Martin Zahariev, MP with Coalition for Bulgaria, speaking at the meeting between the parliamentary group and representatives of the Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant A
Focus English News (bg)
added May 30, 2013 12:57
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Coalition for Bulgaria, business discuss smoking ban

Representatives of the parliamentary group of Coalition for Bulgaria and the Bulgarian Hotel and Restaurant Association are discussing at parliament the proposed amendments to the regulation on the full smoking ban at public places, FOCUS News Agency repo
Focus English News (bg)
added May 27, 2013 12:18
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[Ireland] CROWN: Big Tobacco is not our friend, Taoiseach

The meeting between senior FG figures and cigarette chiefs should never have happened, says John Crown
Irish Independent (ie)
added May 26, 2013 02:20
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[Europe] The Commission's secret deal on tobacco

Dalli has said that he would not and did not change the Tobacco Directive. Even the OLAF report, used as the excuse to dismiss him makes this perfectly clear. As we will show, the directive was changed, on 4 September 2012 - but the commissioner was not
New Europe
added May 26, 2013 01:50
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[UK] Association launched to fight illicit trade in excisable goods

British American Tobacco, Imperial Tobacco Group, Japan Tobacco International and Philip Morris International today launch the Digital Coding & Tracking Association (DCTA), set up to promote international standards and digital technologies to help govern
Financial Mirror (uk)
added May 24, 2013 13:07
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