Tagesschau: in Finland, all feel the harm of punishment EU against Russia

Finnish shops remain without buyers and suffer serious losses, losing customers from Russia in the end of sentences EU, informs.

The impression that Finland cannot sell anything - neither fish nor expensive suits, said the journalist Tagesschau, which turned out to communicate with the Topi Autoi, with the seller of costumes, Lappeeranta, located 200 km from St. Petersburg. According to Reuti, Russian clients in the past year brought it to the shop half a billion euros in revenue.

" according to our calculations, if the situation in relations between Ukraine and Russia was normal, sales would have been higher by 40-50%, " he said. Currently, when Russian clients there, shop Reuti empty, despite the wide range.

As underlined by the journalist Tagesschau, the harm of punishment EU against Russia in Finland " feel everything ".

According to the expert Juhani Aunesluoma, head of the Institute of Europe at the University of Helsinki, speedy solution of this problem is not expected.

" We are dealing with a structural problem that will occupy us for a long time ", - he said.- Finland is not slipping into crisis. Finland has been placed in the epicenter.

Aunesluoma stresses that the EU " As luck would have it " uses against Russia the tool, which provoked an extremely difficult situation for Finland." we have close relations with Russia in many areas, for this reason the punishment we are very hurt, " said the expert.
Tagesschau recalls that before the fall of Russia was the most important financial partner of Finland." Russia provides energy Finland: natural gas, oil, nuclear energy, almost everything is in Russian hands, " emphasizes news portal.


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