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EC President Jean Claude Juncker has admitted that there was "a problem of double standards" when it comes to products sold in different parts of the EU.

EC President Jean Claude Juncker has admitted that there was "a problem of double standards" when it comes to products sold in different parts of the EU.

Romania on Thursday joined several Eastern European countries in urging the European Union to address the "double standards" loophole used by global food chains to sell lower-quality products in Eastern Europe.

"We need to know which companies treat us like second-hand citizens," Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Tudose told the cabinet meeting on Thursday.

The European Union's executive will decide on Tuesday to open legal cases against three eastern members for failing to take in asylum-seekers to relieve states on the front lines of the bloc's migration crisis, sources said, quoted by Reuters.

An adviser to the European Court of Justice says the court should dismiss lawsuits filed by Hungary and Slovakia challenging a European Council decision that the countries have to mandatorily take in hundreds of asylum-seekers.

Garbiñe Muguruza is the first Wimbledon finalist this season. The Spanish smashed Magdalena Rybarikova from Slovakia with 6:1, 6:1 in the first women's semi-final.

US President Donald Trump urged participant states attending the Three Seas Initiative in Warsaw to use US gas - after Hungary and Russian energy giant Gazprom agreed to extend the Turkish Stream to Hungary via Bulgaria and Serbia.

"The United States will never use energy to coerce anyone, and we will not let others do it," he said in apparent reference to Russia.

US President Donald Trump attended a meeting of the Three Seas Initiative - led by Poland and Croatia - in Warsaw on Thursday, showing American support for a scheme that is mainly designed to limit Russia's economic and political influence in Central and Eastern Europe.

Serbia is the most heavily armed Slavic country, with as many 37.8 registers arms per 100 people, the Washington Post reported, citing data from 2016.

This is according to the website Slavorum, which, according to the Belgrade-base paper Blic, warned that these numbers should not be taken for granted - because "some countries allow carrying arms without a license."

The Chipita food company is investing 63 million euros in the construction of a major factory at Trnava in southern Slovakia to add to its production units in Poland as it strengthens its presence in Central Europe.

The new plant will employ more than 600 people and produce more than 72,000 tons of yeast products and snacks.