欧盟对菜农果农进行资金补贴The European Commission has announced emergency EU funding of 125m euros for fruit and vegetable growers hit by Russia's ban on most imported Western food.欧盟委员会宣布动用 1.25 亿欧元紧急资金对水果蔬菜种植者进行补贴，这些种植者因俄罗斯禁止进口大部分西方食品而遭受损失。Dutch peppers: Withdrawing some produce from sale is meant to prevent the price crashing The funding is compensation for fresh produce which will not be sold. Instead it will be distributed free to schools, hospitals and other institutions. Tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, grapes and pears are included in the scheme. Russia has banned many food imports, angry at EU-US sanctions over Ukraine. Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel insisted on Monday that the EU sanctions must stay in place "in order to show how serious we are" on the Ukraine crisis. She was speaking in Latvia, an EU member state with a large ethnic Russian minority. Its Baltic neighbour Lithuania is especially hard hit by the Russian import ban. EU and US sanctions are targeting top Russian officials and key economic sectors, such as energy and finance, as Western leaders accuse the Kremlin of destabilising eastern Ukraine by supporting the pro-Russian separatists there. The first round of Western sanctions came after Russia annexed Crimea in March.
