Vi oplever, hvordan vi via smugleri med cigaretter lider enorme tab, hvordan medlemsstaterne ikke samarbejder med EU i det omfang, som det egentlig ville være ønskeligt, hvordan medlemsstaterne og især medlemsstaternes finansministre stadig satser på en forkert og farlig skattepolitik, idet de altid vedtager forhøjelser af tobaksafgifterne, når det handler om at stoppe nationale skattehuller.
We learn that cigarette smuggling is causing us tremendous losses, that the Member States are not cooperating with the European Union as much as they ought and that the Member States, and their finance ministers in particular, are still clinging to an incorrect and dangerous tax policy, always increasing tobacco duties when they need to plug a gap in national tax revenues.