EU tobacco tax plan faces pushback on harm reduction, illegal trade, sovereignty

Most European Union member states have yet to issue official statements on the proposed Tobacco Excise Directive (TED), but some have already pushed back and warned the measures could undermine national sovereignty and damage local industries.

This month, Portugal became the latest country to join Germany, Sweden, and Hungary in expressing reservations about new EU-level taxes. The Portuguese government particularly voiced concerns about taxing both combustible cigarettes and new generation products in the same way, which would not create a real incentive to use less harmful products.

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Antonia Di Lorenzo

Newsdesk editor/EU lead reporter

Antonia is a member of the editorial team and holds a masters degree in Law from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. She moved in 2013 to London, where she completed a postgraduate course at the London School of Journalism. In the UK, she worked as a news reporter for a financial newswire and a magazine before moving to Barcelona in 2019.

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