BRUSSELS — As the European Union moves forward with its most ambitious legislative overhaul of tobacco and nicotine taxation in decades, a fundamental constitutional battle is brewing beneath the surface. At stake is not merely the price of a pack of cigarettes or a tin of nicotine pouches, but the boundaries of European integration itself:…
BRUSSELS — The European Union’s ongoing push to overhaul its bedrock fiscal and regulatory frameworks has once again brought the perennial tension between European integration and national sovereignty to a head. At the center of this brewing storm is the European Commission’s proposed revision of the Tobacco Excise Directive (TED), a sweeping legislative package that…
BRUSSELS — A quiet ideological battle is being waged across the capitals of the European Union, pitting the centralizing ambitions of the European Commission against the constitutional prerogatives of individual Member States. At the heart of this friction is the European Union’s revised Tobacco Excise Directive (TED), a sweeping legislative proposal ostensibly designed to streamline…
