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"Mr President, of course we all want to stop counterfeiting and the trade in illicit cigarettes but, while we have a complete open door policy across the whole of Europe, how on earth are we meant to check for quality and control for contraband? These agreements are nothing more than the EU putting a gun to the head of international tobacco companies to hand over billions of euros to the EU.
No wonder there is such an enormous trade in illegal goods. How does the EU propose to try to tackle the problem of counterfeit goods? It calls for plain packaging of cigarettes, which will be a counterfeiter’s dream! If the EU and the Tories have their way, standard plain packaging will make counterfeiting much easier by taking away all the complicated wrapping and markings that the tobacco companies put on their products to make sure they are of quality. There will be a flood of counterfeit goods coming into the EU. How on earth are we going to protect consumers? They want to smoke cigarettes. They do not want to smoke goodness knows what. They only want to smoke cigarettes.
The EU negotiating important international agreements on taking large sums of cash to squander is completely undemocratic. This should be the province of the nation state and nothing to do with the EU. Through these agreements, the tobacco companies have committed to paying the EU collectively USD 2.15 billion. This is an EU protection racket worthy of the late Al Capone and another example of the dark and perverted science of the EU."@en1
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