Central Europe \u2013 Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico called his counterparts of the Visegr\u00e1d Group to hold a meeting over the bad quality of products in Central and Eastern European supermarkets. Recent studies showed that many multinational food companies put inferior ingredients in branded products destined for sale in poorer member states of the EU.<\/p>\n
The summit will take place on Thursday, March 2. The special summit will \u201ccall on the Commission to take legislative measures that would ban such practice \u2026 that humiliates people and creates two categories of people,\u201d Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico told a news conference.<\/p>\n
Slovakia\u2019s Agriculture Ministry last week presented results of laboratory tests showing half of 22 products bought in Bratislava, the Slovak capital, differed in taste, looks and composition from equivalents bought in two Austrian towns across the border. Particularly non-alcoholic beverages, spices, teas and meat products sold in Slovakia were of a poorer quality. They had a lower share of meat, a higher share of fats, artificial sweeteners, many artificial preservatives and a lower weight.<\/p>\n
Czech Agriculture Minister Marian Jure\u010dka last week said people were tired of being \u201cEurope\u2019s garbage can\u201d while Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n\u2019s chief of staff called the double standards on quality \u201cthe biggest scandal of the recent past\u201d, summarized\u00a0Euronews<\/em>.<\/p>\n Led by Czech Agriculture Minister Marian Jure\u010dka, Czechia will lobby the European Union to prohibit the sale of inferior quality foods having the same brand names as higher quality products sold in western Europe. Czech Prime Minister Bohuslav Sobotka proposes that a European Commission\u2019s representative attend the forthcoming planned Visegr\u00e1d Four\u2019s (V4) summit on the different quality of food supplied to shops in West and East Europe.<\/p>\n Meantime, Hungary and Slovakia will also ask the European Commission in a joint motion to consider legal means to eliminate \u201cdouble standards in quality\u201d of food products.<\/p>\n On this topic, read also\u00a0\u201cRomania: from a \u201cTwo-Tiered Europe\u201d to a Europe of the Double Bind\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Central Europe \u2013 Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico called his counterparts of the Visegr\u00e1d Group to hold a meeting over the bad quality of products in Central and Eastern European supermarkets. Recent studies showed that many multinational food companies put inferior ingredients in branded products destined for sale in poorer member states of the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"acf":{"subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/visegradpost.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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