EU must not let tobacco control ambition falter under the Cypriot Presidency

The Cypriot EU Council Presidency’s latest attempt to advance the EU’s tobacco tax reform was put to the test on Wednesday 21 January, when officials convened in the Council’s Working Group on Tax Questions.
Intended to inject momentum into the long-stalled revision of the Tobacco Excise Tax Directive (TED), the
exchange around the new compromise text instead exposed just how far member-states remain from a shared position on one of the Union’s most sensitive public-health and fiscal dossiers.