EU blocks low-duty alcohol online
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EU judges refuse to allow consumers to buy drinks and cigarettes online at lower duties from other countries.
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The European Commission said Wednesday it was considering tightening food advertising and nutrition labelling rules if companies failed to improve consumer awareness about unhealthy foods.
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The drink-drive limit could be lowered to the equivalent of half a pint of beer, under government proposals.
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BARCELONA, Spain  - Mobile phone operators must  act before July 1 to avoid the European Union imposing lower  prices for texting or surfing the Web via mobile phones when  abroad, the bloc's top telecoms regulator said on Monday.
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Pubs and bars should be forced to start selling smaller glasses of wine again, an MP says.
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Wine lovers frustrated by the Transportation Security Administration's carry-on liquids restriction now have another alternative to flying home empty-handed or with wine-stained shirts in their checked luggage.
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Europe's online gaming  industry filed a complaint with the European Commission on  Tuesday, saying Germany's ban on online gambling breaks EU law  on the free movement of services.
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Greece can continue to tax its trademark liqueur ouzo at half the other rate of other alcohols, the European Union's highest court ruled Tuesday.
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MOSCOW - The upper house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday rejected a bill that would have banned public beer consumption.  The bill already had been approved by the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, which is dominated by the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.
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Amateur sailors will be subject to the same alcohol limits as drivers, the government announces.
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LONDON - Pubs, clubs and other drinking venues in England and Wales can apply to stay open 24 hours a day under new laws that come into effect Monday.  Currently, many British drinkers imbibe as much as they can as quickly as they can before pubs shut at 11 p.m.
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MOSCOW - Russia's lower house of parliament passed legislation that would make it illegal to drink beer in public, news reports said Thursday.
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PARIS -- Wine ads in France, once restricted to little more than a photo of the bottle, could boast about smell, taste, and color under a compromise approved unanimously by parliament's upper house. The amendment aims to settle a battle between struggling vintners and anti-alcoholism campaigners over a 1991 law limiting ads to dry information on name, manufacturer, alcohol content, ...
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Britain passed new regulations on Tuesday that further restricts tobacco advertising in shops, pubs and clubs. Henceforth cigarette and tobacco advertising in shops, pubs and clubs will be limited to a size of an A5 sheet of paper.
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The European Commission said Monday it would propose tighter restrictions on biofuels next week amid mounting concerns that the energy source can cause unintended environmental and social problems.
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The European Union wants firms to stop advertising junk food to children and to make food labelling clearer, the FT says.
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