RUSSIA THREATENS TO DEEPEN MEAT ROW WITH EUROPE
November 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
RUSSIA is threatening to impose an import ban on all European Union (EU) meat products from January 1. Moscow has written to the European Commission warning of a potential embargo because of the admission that day of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU - Russia claims safety concerns over these country's meat products, which would henceforth have free circulation in the EU. The European Commission has been stressing its recent announcements to restrict pigmeat exports from these new members over swine fever concerns and also to block all trade with ...
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