Europe must be a Union of equality, stated Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in his State of the Union address on Wednesday 13 September, reiterating that he was willing to accept the legitimate demand of the Visegrád Group countries to stop the practice of double standards in food quality (see EUROPE 11838).
“In a Union of equals, there can be no second class consumers. I will not accept that in some parts of Europe, people are sold food of lower quality than in other countries,...