EU RUSSIA FREE TRADE AGREEMENT PROPOSED
July 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is dangling the carrot of a comprehensive European Union (EU) free-trade deal in front of Russia, as a way of securing cheaper and more reliable gas and oil supplies. Commission president José Manuel Barroso has said the EU will offer Russia an outright and comprehensive free trade deal once it has joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO), something that could happen this year. Speaking in Helsinki to welcome the new EU Finnish presidency, he said: "We propose moving towards a free trade area, to be completed once ...
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