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Ireland's EU presidency has cut its proposed minimum excise rate on nicotine pouches again — from €80 to €50 per kilogram at full rate — and locked in a November 9 finance ministers' vote. Sweden, still without a confirmed government, remains the one country that can block the whole deal.

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The EU has pushed its vote on tobacco and nicotine tax changes from October to November, confirming that Sweden's post-election stalemate is stalling the bloc's first-ever nicotine pouch tax. Sweden remains the holdout — and under unanimity rules, it only takes one.