EghtesadOnline: Iran traded 3.6 million tons of non-oil commodities worth $2.23 billion with the member states of the United Nations’ Eastern Europe an Group during the first nine months of the current fiscal year (March 21-Dec. 21) to register a 29.69% and 33.04% growth in tonnage and value respectively compared with last year’s corresponding period.

EghtesadOnline: The EU is falling apart. Europe’s exporters face a crisis. Its southern economies are troubled. Germany has economic challenges of its own. But as Europe’s crises deepen, something else will become more important.