Russia sanctions have cost EU 21 bn euros: Spain

The EU has suffered 21 billion euros in lost exports as a result of sanctions against Russia over Ukraine, Spain's foreign minister said Monday as he met his counterparts to discuss further measures. In Spain we have been badly hit in terms of agriculture and tourism," said Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo, giving the first figure of its kind for the EU. The European Union has become increasingly divided over the tough economic sanctions that it has progressively imposed on Russia since Jul