Europe's Food Industry Looks to Compensate for Russian Embargo

The European Commission is taking exceptional measures to help fruit and vegetable growers reeling from a new Russian embargo against selected food imports.  The aim is to avoid a glut in local European markets, as the West and Russia fight an economic war over the crisis in Ukraine.   You need a heavy coat to walk around the cavernous warehouse of Thomas Export, just a few minutes from Paris' Orly airport.  Crates of French cheeses are lined up in the glacial space at...

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