The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, admitted today after the meeting with the Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fitz in Brussels that there really is a problem of double taxes for foodstuffs and goods intended for the West and post-communist EU members.
Junker assessed that this problem is not insignificant and that this practice of different composition is unacceptable, but he said that he believes that it will not be necessary to introduce new European laws because of this.
"The EC considers that the problem of different products with the same name is not insignificant, it will pay full attention to it," Junker said at a joint press conference with Fico, Slovak television station TA3 reports.
This practice that, for example, in dried meat products for new Europeans there is less meat and more additives even though the price is almost the same, and sometimes it is even lower in the West, or that washing powder washes better in the west of Europe than in the east, for the European Commission is unacceptable, but according to Junker, no special new regulations are needed for this, although he does not rule them out in the future.
Slovak Prime Minister Fico came to Brussels for a meeting with Junker, European Commissioner for Justice and Consumer Rights Vjera Jourova and President of the European Council Donald Tusk as an emissary of the entire Visegrad Four, which in the last few years has been increasingly demanding that these countries cease to be Europe's garbage can and that Czechs, Poles, Slovaks and Hungarians have every right to get goods of the same composition and quality under the same name.
"For me, the most important thing is that the EC recognized the problem and that it will work to solve it. It doesn't matter how it will be solved. I don't care if the cat is black or white, the main thing is that it catches mice," said Fico today.
The Slovak prime minister denied that it was a ridiculous problem and expressed the hope that such a practice, which turns Slovaks into low-ranking Europeans, will gradually disappear.
Czech European Commissioner Jourova, who is also actively leading the fight for products in Europe to be of the same quality, warned earlier, however, that member countries already have national control mechanisms that could largely suppress such double standard practices.
The Czech Republic was the first to conduct an official test of the composition and quality of foodstuffs and selected goods to prove the practice of double arshins, then this year Slovakia, and now Romania has also carried out product testing - all with the same result, that the products differ, depending on which markets are going, and the citizens of the post-communist EU member states are getting a lower quality product for their money under the same name from supranational companies.
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