Visegrad lobby makes food quality an EU issue

The European Commission offered on Thursday (27 July) to pay for member states' studies into an alleged practice that has been dubbed “dual food quality”.

The leaders of several Central and Eastern European countries have complained that food and other consumer products, offered in their countries, are of inferior quality when compared to identical products in western European countries.

In particular, the Visegrad group of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia, have b...