Freedom of Choice: Articles & News
ForFreeChoice calls EU Commission and Institutions to stop the Italian discrimination of foreign wheat. It is a violation of free trade principle and fair competition. Last August the Italian government passed a bill that introduced the obligation to indicate the origin of wheat on pasta labels. Minister Carlo Calenda (Economic Development) and Minister Maurizio Martina […]
From 2017 on, all cigarette packs in my host-country France have to be sold in the format of the so-called “neutral pack.” This implies that the pack will have the brand name in a neutral font, a colourless pack, and even bigger warning labels and shocking pictures of tobacco-derived diseases. This government measure mostly intends […]
Flashy BMW cars, a pristine villa in downtown Geneva, United Nations diplomatic credentials, and close to 2.2 million EUR in profit: welcome to the lucrative life of a UN cigarette smuggler. In August, two employees of the diplomatic mission of Iraq to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland were accused of abusing their diplomatic status […]