(ANSA) - Brussels, September 3 - Russia's embargo on
European food and agriculture products is costing Italy an
estimated 200 million euros a year, Agriculture Minister
Maurizio Martina told the European Parliament on Wednesday.
Russia applied the embargo in early August, after the EU
imposed sanctions in response to its annexation of Ukraine's
Crimea peninsula in March.
'Russian embargo costing Italy 200 mn a year' says minister
Food and agriculture exports to Russia down, Martina tells EP