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Wallstrom mediates in Swedish bun fight

Swedish EU communication commissioner Margot Wallstrom has weighed in to calm tempers at home over Brussels regulation on cake-baking, stressing the rules apply only to commercial-scale production.

The row broke out in the town of Molby when a zealous local food inspector tried to stop people from selling home-made sugar cakes, tarts and cinnamon buns in a Christian book cafe.

The inspector claimed that under the EU's provision directive, only cakes that had been baked in author...

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