The former communist states, both of which have clashed with the EU over accusations of undermining civil rights, have taken to describing the right to distill fruit brandy as a fight for freedoms.
EU rules now ban distilling at home, although orchard owners who bring their own fruit to distilleries to be made into brandy are allowed to take some home for personal use, paying half the usual rate of excise tax. It is backed by Hungary, whose Prime Minister Viktor Orban changed Hungary’s laws to allow home distilling in 2010, but was forced to backtrack by the EU’s top court, which ruled the changes illegal in 2014. Hungarians are known for “palinka”, brandy from apricots, plums, cherries, apples or pears.
A tweak to an EU legislative proposal suggested by Romania would allow countries to charge no tax rather than just lowering it. The personal use threshold would be raised to 100 liters in Romania and Hungary, and 50 liters elsewhere in the EU.
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