Fiscal Sovereignty and Subsidiarity: What the EU’s Tobacco Excise Directive Gets Wrong
The European Union’s revised Tobacco Excise Directive (TED) is the latest proposal from Brussels that attempts to replace Member States’ national autonomy with EU subordination. Harmonized policy in pursuit of a low-friction, Single Market is a worthy goal, but over-exporting policy decisions to Brussels will harm many Member States.
We haven't written up this one. Tax Foundation has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.