Poland seeks Russia food ban action

Poland has asked the European Commission to lodge a complaint to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) over a Russian ban on EU food products, the Polish Economy Ministry said yesterday. 

The commission has so far been cautious about taking the embargo case to the WTO, with lawyers in Brussels advising that doing so could escalate the conflict with Russia over Ukraine.

Russia has banned the import of EU food products from Poland, whose total food exports to Russia were worth around $1.5bn (€1.1bn) last year.