Brussels is ratcheting up pressure on Russia in a tit-for-tat sanctions battle that has raged since the early days of the Ukraine crisis in 2014.
The European Union is now pressing to claw back €1.4 billion each year from Moscow, arguing that the Kremlin unlawfully banned imports of pork meat from Europe in January 2014, just as President Vladmir Putin’s relations with the West slid into a precipitous decline.
People familiar with the dispute said the European Commission’s demand for compensation shifted into a significant new phase this week, when the World Trade Organization referred the “EU’s request to retaliate against …read more
Source: European Voice
