Finland’s alcohol law reform would increase consumption, Sweden's alcohol monopoly warns

Sweden’s state-owned alcohol retail monopoly, Systembolaget, has conveyed its concerns about the upcoming reform of alcohol legislation in Finland to the European Commission. Its concerns are largely in line with those expressed by public health officials in Finland. The reform, it argues, is set to increase the availability of alcohol, a trend that has been shown to correlate with an increase in alcohol consumption, thus threatening both public health and child welfare.