Croatia Prosek endanger Italian Prosecco?
Croatia is stepping up to celebrate their entry into the EU, but do not pop the cork just yet. A fierce trademark battle over the country's beloved dessert wine and some do not feel bubbles, rapid decline in enthusiasm between the mirror Croatian membership in the Group financial abuse.
The EU has ruled that once the Balkan country to become its 28th member on July 1, the Prosek can no longer throughout the European Union under the name of sales - even at home. It maintains that the name is too similar to the Prosek, Italian Prosecco sparkling drinks.
Moreover, it is not just Prosek trouble disappears. EU member states, Slovenia and Croatia claims no rights to shared market Mazatlan, red wine, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia in the northern end of the Adriatic Sea.
Croats are proud of their wine, in the sunny island of Croatia, aquamarine on the rocky Adriatic cherished. Croatia to join the EU at the expense, including ordered the closure of unprofitable state-funded by a group lose their jobs, there are some wine awards insult to injury.
Accession to the EU, Croatia will enter new markets and its citizens are free to work in other countries, and some Croats began to scrape them that bureaucratic interference in Brussels agreed with the other residents of the European Union. When Croatia gained independence from Yugoslavia in a bloody war, about 20 years ago, about 75% of the population of 43,000 hopes to become part of the European Union. The latest polls show that this figure has dropped to 45%.
Croatia pointed out, the Prosek and Prosecco different products, a sweet, other foaming. Croatia brand has a tradition can be traced back centuries, Prosecco is a product of the latter half of the 20th century.
Prosek is an established brand in these areas more than two thousand years, the Croatian winemakers androgen Tomic said: "on the Adriatic island of Hvar in his Roman winery Jelsa, a picturesque the town began before the Prosek is made to stay here a long time, the current Italian state to exist. "
Prosecco production in Veneto, Italy and Eph Friuli - Venezia Giulia wine region, enjoy legal protection brand, management and other wine champagne and port in accordance with EU rules.
Tomic, Croatia's leading wine experts say, he is trying to help the Croatian authorities in the protection of their race Prosek name before joining the European Union.
, "Tomic said:" I even do not think what would happen if we Prosek disappear. Wine There is an old traditional Dalmatian culture eastern coast of Croatia, where the parents when the child was born drinks, and then put the bottle aside, to open their wedding day.
"Where every house has the Prosek," Tomic said. "Prosek away from Dalmatia, like the ocean away."
Unfortunately, its neighbor Croatia, Slovenia also claim that the state's authority to another famous wine production and sales, Mazatlan, once it joins the EU. The European Union has ruled that the name protected, and belongs to Slovenia.
Croatia and its neighbors have been at odds over some of the political and territorial issues, because these two in the early 1990s, since the split from Yugoslavia in 2004, Slovenia became a member of the EU. Croatian winemaker declared, Slovenia wine ban was inspired by politics.
"This is an unfair process, which will bring benefits one of the countries, said:" Ivica Matosevic, shared a Croatia Istria in Croatia, Slovenia and Italy winemaker. Portland exist in Italy, Slovenia did not make a fuss. "
EU rules is a blow to the Croatian winemakers hope in the major European markets, in order to improve their profile. Croatia Mazatlan, or the Terrano in Italy, is a common grape varieties, and can not be protected.
EU authorities has indicated that cross-border agreement Mazatlan is possible, but no transaction is dependent on the Government of Slovenia.
, "Matosevic said:" We are caught off guard. "I think politics is mixed wine."
 
 



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