How Italy is Paying a High Price for Anti-Russian Policies

... is none else but a hefty one. In this article I will focus on the actual catastrophic consequences of the sanctions on Italy, the reason of this choice resides in the status of this country as one of the former leading economic partner of Russia in Europe, second only to Germany. Since the enforcing of the sanctions in the first quarter of 2014 the trade of goods between Russia and Italy has dropped just shy of one third reaching the value 32%. Let's broke down this data. The starting round of sanctions did not call for extremely aggressive measures, yet those were serious enough to cause a net loss in the Italian-Russian ...