Brussels, 10/07/2014 (Agence Europe) - On Thursday 10 July, Russia blocked the EU request at the WTO to set up a dispute settlement body panel to rule on the European complaint about the Russian-imposed embargo on European exports of pigs and pork meat - an embargo that has been in operation since January due to cases of swine fever affecting boar in Lithuania and Poland.
The EU appealed to the WTO on this issue (DS 475) in April. After the failure of consultations with Russia, the EU...