Current Affairs Czechs win stinky cheese war after six-year struggle with Germany, Austria

02-07-2010 15:59 | Rob Cameron

The Czech Republic scored a major diplomatic victory over neighbouring Germany and Austria this week after the European Union granted the cherished protected geographical status to the country’s pungent Olomoucké tvarůžky cheese. That means only the original cheese produced in the little town of Loštice - near the Moravian city of Olomouc - can sell the product under that name; everything else is an impostor.

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