Brussels, 02/092015 (Agence Europe) - In a joint statement published on Tuesday 2 September, Commissioners Vytenis Andriukaitis (Food Safety), Cecilia Malmström (Trade) and Phil Hogan (Agriculture) welcomed the decision of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to open the American market to imports of meat and meat products from Lithuania. Russia, which has been applying a ban on European meat since summer 2014, is indirectly urged to follow suit.
“We welcome the USDA's...