Punishment regarding Russia have not yielded the desired result, and cause very great harm to Europe. About it said the people's Deputy of the National Council of Austria Angelika Winzig in conversation Kurier edition.

in her expressions, for many European countries, the situation has become "economic split" between the punishment against Russia and the retaliatory measures of the Russian capital.

She also said that the West from the very beginning was not obliged to introduce penalties against Russia, and to seek other political solutions to international issues.

Thus the people's Deputy said that because of punishments Moscow improved interaction with Beijing, which has replaced the majority of European products on the Russian market with their products.

in addition, the politician expressed surprise at the declarations part of the candidates to the European Parliament who are campaigning to stop the " Nord stream - 2 ". In her vision, Europe needs to run this project, because alternative supplies from the EU just yet.

Relations between Russia and Western countries have deteriorated the situation in Ukraine and around the Crimea. The West, accusing the Russian Federation in the intervention, were imposed against her punishment. Moscow, August 6, 2014 retaliated, took the policy of import substitution and has repeatedly said that talking with her in the language of penalties is counterproductive. The list of banned for export to the Russian Federation of items included meat and dairy products, fish, vegetables, fruits and nuts. The loss of foreign States from the introduction of the Moscow food embargo have been estimated magnitude of approximately 8. 3 billion dollars a year. The ban includes food products From USA, EU, Canada, Australia and Norway. However for personal use as long as you can still import up to five kilograms of food.

The project "Northern stream-2" involves the construction of 2 lines of the pipeline with a total capacity of 55 billion cubic meters of gas per year from the coast of Russia through the Baltic sea to Germany. It is expected to finish in 2019. The pipeline passes through the territorial waters or exclusive economic zones of Russia, Finland, Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Of these States the operator of the project - organization of Nord Stream AG 2 it remains to obtain permission for construction only from Denmark.



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