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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11149

6 September 2014
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) agriculture
Russian ban - EU working on targeted compensation

Brussels, 05/09/2014 (Agence Europe) - EU agriculture ministers, meeting on Friday 5 September, have recommended adoption of fresh measures to ease the effects of the Russian embargo on the import of EU agricultural products. The EU will consider targeted compensation for the farmers and sectors hardest hit and the Italian Presidency raised the possibility of drawing on EU funds other than agricultural, since the crisis only came about because of a “political and diplomatic conflict”,...