[Brian Griffin]

The Russians aren’t budging.

Does the EU want the Russians to buy BMWs and Mercedes, or not?

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

You over-estimate Russia’s importance as an export market for the EU. Russia’s gdp is equivalent to that of Spain alone. The EU’s total economy is 10 times the size of Russia’s.

[Cronos]

Brian - Sinsofsolar is correct

about 15% of Russia's imports come from EU countries (4.74% from Germany)

In contrast, Russia accounts for about 1% of the EU countries exports (0.63% of Germany's exports)

Most of Germany's exports to the Russian federation are:

• Pharmaceutical products: 25%
• Chemicals - 10%
• Machinery: 15%
• Optical equipment including medical instruments = 8.5%
• Plastics: 6%
• Food products = 6%

The EU wanted (or rather Germany and France wanted) until 2022, for Russia to be a trading partner and not threaten European countries with war.