The Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia issued a joint statement on the dual quality of foodstuffs and other commodities.
"We, the Prime Ministers of the Visegrad Group countries, are strongly convinced that all consumers within the European Union have the right to quality and safe products. It is unacceptable that our consumers are treated differently and in a discriminatory way. We are strongly convinced that every citizen has the right to buy products of the same brand which are of the same quality regardless of a region or a particular country. Nondiscrimination is a key principle of the Internal Market", the Prime Ministers of the Visegrad Group stressed in their statement, issued on Wednesday.
During the joint press conference of the V4 leaders and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Slovak PM Robert Fico said that dual quality makes the citizens of V4 countries feel like second-class citizens of the EU and this is an insult.
