EUROPEAN COMMISSION WARNS OF SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES OF RUSSIAN BAN ON EUROPEAN PORK IMPORTS
February 1st, 2014
A RUSSIAN ban on European pork imports is having serious consequences, the European Union (EU) health Commissioner Tonio Borg warned last night (Monday) in Brussels. “The price of meat in Europe is going down and the price of meat in Russia is going up”, he told journalists after an EU Council of Ministers agricultural meeting. “There has been a 35 to 40% increase in the price of pork in Russia”, he added, insisting that it was in the “mutual interest” of the EU and Russia to reach a solution as soon as possible - to stop the ban from harming ...
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