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[Europe, Malta] EU health director told OLAF Dalli supported ban on snus

Missing interview with health director in OLAF report is published by Brussels newspaper.
Malta Today (mt)
added May 29, 2013 01:32
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[Ireland] Retailers fuming as poptential profits go up in smoke

ILLEGAL cigarette sales are leaving local retailers fuming as literally millions of euro in potential profits go up in smoke. The persistent problem of illegal tobacco products mainly the result of a criminal trade which is netting the perpetrators a sta
Kildare Nationalist (ie)
added May 28, 2013 13:29
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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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[Europe, Malta] EC president sticks to decision on Dalli

European Commission president José Manuel Barroso has stood by his decision to ask former Commissioner John Dalli to step down, despite the "media speculation" over the EU anti-fraud probe that led to his resignation.
Times of Malta (mt)
added May 28, 2013 05:56
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[Europe] EU anti-fraud chief defends role in Dalligate

The director general of the EU’s anti-fraud agency, Olaf, has said public confidence in the office has increased despite allegations of wrongdoing in an investigation that led to the dismissal of EU commissioner John Dalli last October.
EUobserver.com
added May 28, 2013 05:55
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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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