date:Mar 05, 2014
A key meeting in Moscow on February 23 between the two sides ended in deadlock, after Russia signaled it would keep the ban in place despite complaints from the 28-nation bloc. As the result the EU could move to file a WTO complaint soon against Russia if the meeting doesn't yield results, EU officials said.
The dispute intensified, after the EU's health chief, Tonio Borg, accused Moscow of overreaction in imposing a blanket ban on all imports of pork from the bloc. Russia enacted the ban after