EU, Russia seek to defuse vegetable ban crisis

Report of discussions at the EU-Russia Summit, Nizhy Novgorod, 9-10 June 2011. The Russian ban on EU vegetables as a result of the e.coli outbreak in Germany was to be discussed.

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