Brussels, 24/09/2015 (Agence Europe) - Despite the closure of the Russian market on 7 August 2014, EU agri-food exports, which have plunged by almost 43% to Russia, rose overall by 5.7% between August 2014 and July 2015, compared with the corresponding period a year earlier, according to the latest figures published by the European Commission on Tuesday 22 September.
One year on from the start of the Russian embargo, the EU agri-food sector has managed to compensate for the losses in export...