The alcohol strategy will be combing back on the health ministers' agenda. At the request of Slovenia, the Council is expected to reiterate its call for a new strategy to replace the 2006 initiative that expired three years ago.
According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), Europeans are the world's largest consumers of alcohol, which is a causal factor in nearly one in ten diseases or early deaths. In 2006, the European Union put in place a strategy to help…