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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11156

17 September 2014
EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PLENARY / (ae) agriculture
Russian ban - MEPs call for more aid

Brussels, 16/09/2014 (Agence Europe) - In Strasbourg on Monday 15 September, many MEPs called for an increase in aid to the farmers hit by the Russian ban on imports of EU agricultural products.

The chair of the EP agriculture committee, Czeslaw Adam Siekierski (EPP, Poland), the author of an oral question, pointed out that “a third of exports disappeared overnight”, referring to producers of fruit and vegetables, milk and meat hit by the embargo. This is a political crisis which has...

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