The EU executive voiced Wednesday ‘profound dissatisfaction’ over Russia’s failure to lift a blanket ban slapped on EU vegetables due to Germany’s killer E. coli bacteria outbreak. Moscow had agreed on Friday to lift the embargo after two days of summit talks between EU Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso and Russian President Dmitry Mededev.
The European Union had reacted furiously to Moscow’s ban on vegetables from the 27-nation union, calling it disproportionate and scientifically unjustified, and demanded it be immediately lifted. Vegetable farmers across Europe are claiming immense damages in the fallout from the bacteria outbreak, which to date has killed at least 37 people, including its first child, who died on Tuesday.
Source: www.freshplaza.com