Guest article by Dr Sheila Gilheany, CEO Alcohol Action Ireland In a significant move on alcohol policy, on 22 May 2023, Ireland’s Minister for Health signed into law regulations requiring comprehensive health information labelling on alcohol products sold in...
Guest article by Emil Juslin – European Policy Officer at IOGT-NTO The last 2 years have seen remarkable progress on the EU level when it comes to public health-based alcohol policy, a brief moment of tailwind in a field that usually is met with the opposite....
This week, our member Alcohol Action Ireland (AAI) achieved significant success as requirements for alcohol labelling to state the health effects of alcohol consumption were signed into law. EPHA would like to extend its congratulations and support to AAI for their...
Europe has the highest rates of alcohol consumption per person, the highest prevalence of heavy episodic alcohol use, and the lowest rates of alcohol abstention in the world. Against this backdrop, and in the context of the WHO Regional Committee for Europe, a...
EPHA joins more than 80 International, European, and National civil society organisations and the World Health Organization in supporting the Oslo Declaration, which calls for urgent policy action to address alcohol-related harm. Florence Berteletti,...