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"We have voted against approving the Commission’s and the Swedish Government’s agreement gradually to abolish the derogations concerning the rules governing imports of alcohol and tobacco into Sweden.
The Swedish Government has caved in to the supremacy of EU bureaucracy and abandoned its previous position to the effect that questions relating to excise duties are to be decided unanimously by the Council. Its action is also a breach of the pledge which the yes side issued before the Swedish referendum. This pledge meant that the powerful temperance movement did not campaign against Swedish membership of the EU, which was probably the decisive factor in Sweden’s becoming a member of the EU.
We would nonetheless welcome much of what is contained in the Maaten report, which admits clearly and unambiguously that alcohol policy is a health-related issue and not, as the Commission sees it, solely a question of the internal market and of agricultural policy. In our view, the conclusions of the Maaten report are nonetheless contrary to the very spirit of the arguments which permeate the report."@en1
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