Poland cheese label move angers Slovakia
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A smoked cheese made for centuries in the Tatra mountains between Poland and Slovakia is at the center of a dispute between the two new European Union neighbors, EU officials said Monday.
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The European Union wants firms to stop advertising junk food to children and improve the labelling of products, the FT says.
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The future of controversial European Union legislation that would allow for some software patents was in doubt Thursday after the Polish government switched sides, saying
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SLOVAKIA's bus companies protested against insufficient financing November 15 by operating a "go-slow". The 18 members of the SAD (Slovak Bus Transportation) group of companies cut their Monday service to a ...
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Unipetrol (Czech Republic), petrochemical holding, has already sold its subsidiaries Spolana (Neratovice, Czech Republic) and Kaucuk (Kralupy and Vltavou, Czech Republic). Spolana was sold for CEK 1.2 bil to the company Anwil (Poland) in 2006, a subsidiary of the company PKN Orlen (Poland).
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"They will come to you and say: Give me your coat. Take off your pants. Give me your shoes."  More than 700 people in Poland, including a former prime minister and foreign minister, signed an open letter condemning statements about Jews by a right-wing Roman Catholic priest who runs a controversial radio station.A magazine had reported that Rev. Tadeusz Rydzyk, during a lecture earlier this year at a journalism school, described Jews as greedy and criticized President Lech Kaczynski for donating land in Warsaw for a Jewish museum.Hundreds of people _ including former Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and former Auschwitz inmate and Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski _ signed the letter, saying Rydzyk's comments 'revealed his contempt' for Jews and fellow Christians. Read more
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Refrigeration rules clash with old ways, and fresh mozzarella is at risk.
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Smokers and restaurant owners in Italy were fuming in a rather different way on Monday after a tough new law that bans smoking in public places - one of the strictest in Europe - went into effect.
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The food industry hits back at government plans to tackle obesity by introducing new food  labels and advert bans.
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Dairy farmers are to protest at Tesco stores about the amount of the money they receive from the sale of milk.
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BUDAPEST, Jun 14 (IPS) - Right-wing extremism is on the rise in Slovakia.  Activists complain not enough is being done, while from Europe  fingers are pointed at the left-wing government's  controversial alliance with extreme-right nationalists.
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Investor's Business Daily - Austria's chancellor and Slovakia's prime minister sawed through a red and white border barrier in a symbolic extension of the EU's passport-free zone to former Eastern Bloc nations: the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. Support for the move is mixed, with the head of the EU's border watchdog agency warning that it will fuel illegal immigration.
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In 1999, Texas governor George W. Bush publicly confused Slovenia with Slovakia at a time when both belonged to a group of ex-communist east European states striving to join the European Union.
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A German paper published photos comparing Poland's president to a potato on Monday on the eve of a summit between Germany, Poland and France -- five months after the three-way meeting was scrapped following a similar jibe.
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Poland is to hold a regional referendum to try to defuse a row with the EU and environmentalists.
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The European Union's health chief wants to introduce tougher food labeling rules to combat the growing problem of obesity across Europe, but is facing stiff political and industrial opposition.
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The drug maker's paperwork also is part of the actions required to issue shares in connection its proposed offer Polish pharmaceutical company known as Polfa Kutno.