ROB CAMERON

BBC Prague Correspondent
Articles tagged 'economy'

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Food
FoodEx-communist states complain of rip-off food in EU

When communism collapsed in Central and Eastern Europe, previously unobtainable goods flooded the market. Today, shops and supermarkets offer broadly the same food and drink as in the West – a tangible result of global capitalism. But something is dawning on Czechs, Slovaks, Poles and Hungarians: the labels are the same, but the contents might not be.

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