Czech-Polish Salami war continues

Czech EU parliament member Jan Brežina told journalists on Tuesday that the Czechs had filed new objections against the Polish registration of an EU specialty label for a Polish kind of salami. The Czech product klobasa is very similar to the product Poland is trying to register and the conflict has been going on for several years. Czechs argue that the Polish kabanos is not a traditional specialty, since it is produced in a few Central European countries and according to varying recipes. Mr. Brežina added that Czechs would be most deserving of the EU specialty label, since norms and techniques for the production of its klobasa salami were established in the 1970s.