Brussels, 23/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - Russia has filed a complaint at the WTO against subsidies received by EU fishermen (especially Spanish) in Mauritania.
This is the first time since it joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that Russia has launched a complaint against the EU. In this case, it cites unfair competition involving subsidies granted to European fishermen as part of the EU-Mauritania fisheries agreement. According to the Russian minister for fisheries, Andrei Kraini, this...