THE EUROPEAN STRATEGY ON ALCOHOL: A LANDMARK AND A LESSON |
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Authors: | BAUMBERG, BEN ANDERSON, PETER |
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Affiliation: | 1 Policy and Research Officer, Institute of Alcohol Studies Alliance House, 12 Caxton Street, London SW1H 0QS, UK 2 Consultant in public health Strandvejen 97, 1tv, 2900 Hellerup, Denmark |
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Abstract: | | INTRODUCTION | The release of the EU strategy on alcohol on October 24th thisyear may not have changed the world for many people who workon alcohol issues, but despite its flaws, this first-ever EuropeanUnion alcohol strategy should be both a landmark and a lessonto all of us concerned with alcohol-related harm. A LANDMARK | That the strategy is a landmark may not be immediately apparentfrom its content. For each of the five laudable sets of aims,there is a list of good practices such as enforcingrestrictions on marketing to young people. Yet the EuropeanCommission does not actually propose doing most of these, asit has decided that most of these actions are best done by theEU
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