Well done!
that the PTBs are damaging not just the EU's
tobacco control efforts, but the EU itself, in the eyes of member states as well as worldwide.
As a citizen of Germany, I can tell you that the EU bureaucracy does not have a good reputation, also among non-vapers.
All it does is eat our money - and a lot of it - and then meddles in the internal affairs of other countries (such as whether Germany must pay welfare payments to foreign citizens who entered the country for the sole purpose of receiving such free money).
It has also banned such things as light bulbs with 100 watts. Duh.. At the time of that light bulb ban, only some new-fangled ugly looking lightbulbs were available that contained mercury. Mercury is poisonous, and it is released if one of those bulbs breaks.
Well, now, we have LED bulbs - at the cost of about 20 Euro a bulb. Duh....
Don't ask European citizens about the EU.... anybody remember the "Common Agricultural Policy"? (= big huge farming subsidies, paid by taxpayers)
Here's the EU - and the EU Commission - for you, dated May 2013:
EU drops olive oil jug ban after public outcry - Telegraph
Frankly speaking, the EU has become a monster.
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In our country, the AfD (political party that is against EU meddling) missed the necessary 5% in the last election by just a few votes. Have a few more unemployed people from new EU countries migrate to Germany in order to collect welfare payments, and the AfD is in, in the next election. Enough is enough.