The EU will put additional tariffs on electric cars produced in China, the European Commission announced on Wednesday (12 June), as preliminary result of a anti-subsidy investigation showed prices being distorted by Chinese state support.
Agrifood products should be kept out of the current EU-China trade tensions as the Asian giant is a key partner for the sector, EU Agriculture Commissioner Janusz Wojciechowski told Euractiv.
Beijing has toughened its critical tone towards the European Union’s protectionist measures against China, warning of increased friction in trade relations. As a trade war brews, the EU is uniting with Japan in fending off Chinese clean tech competition.
While the imposition of new tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles proves controversial within the EU due to the fear of Chinese retaliation, the option of negotiations has been met with increasing attention.
Today, news agencies broke two news stories that are worth a closer look as both seem to indicate that China has ambitions to help solve the two wars at the gate of the EU.
Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Thursday (30 May) for a peace conference on the war between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas as he addressed Arab leaders and diplomats at a forum in Beijing.
Returning to Europe after a five-year hiatus, Chinese President Xi Jinping discovered the local tribes were not united in diversity. Mapping the land, Xi found divergent political climates, and cavernous terrain between Western, Central and Eastern Europe.
On the last leg of his European tour in Hungary, Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday (8 May) is expected to tighten ties with Budapest, its closest ally in the European Union. After Paris, Xi's visits to
The main danger facing EU-China relations is the deterioration of political ties that would hamper the global effort to combat climate change, the head of a leading European think-tank told Euractiv in an interview on Tuesday (7 May).
Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Belgrade on Tuesday (7 May) has raised eyebrows at a time when Serbia's President Aleksander Vučić has continued to resist increasing pressure to align foreign policy with the West, in particular the EU.
EU countries and European institutions must do much more to share and centralise sensitive data, to better apprehend economic security risks and more efficiently protect supply chains from increasingly predacious geopolitical actors, writes Mathieu Duchâtel.
After German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Beijing, France's Emmanuel Macron must make clear when President Xi visits Paris that de-risking is more than just 'made in Brussels', write Gesine Weber and Earl Wang.
The EU’s recent spate of investigations into Chinese firms’ state subsidies and procurement practices is not meant to send a message to Beijing but rather shows that the Commission will protect the interests of European businesses, the bloc's competition chief Margrethe Vestager said on Friday (26 April).
China on Friday (26 April) passed a law leaving its biggest trade partners in no doubt that it can hit back should they put tariffs on the exports of the world's No.2 economy as Washington and Brussels take aim at Beijing over excess industrial capacity.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's recent visit to China is an example of a “do-it-alone” foreign policy approach which can only benefit the Middle Kingdom.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz just concluded his three-day visit to China with a high-profile business delegation, which attracted great attention from both China and the EU.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday (16 April) two-way ties with Germany would continue to develop steadily as long as both respected each other and sought "common ground" while reserving differences.
Dissatisfaction with the European Union is mounting in Beijing following the European Commission's launch of an inquiry into Chinese wind turbine suppliers.
Over the past year, amid heightened global geopolitical tensions, the European Union has viewed its trade and economic cooperation with China as a "risk point", and the trend is intensifying
Beijing's commerce minister dismissed as "groundless" US concerns that a surge of low-cost Chinese exports posed a risk to global markets, as Washington's Treasury chief on Monday (8 April) wrapped up a visit aimed in part at addressing the issue.
Reflecting on his tenure as the 15th Chinese ambassador to the European Union, Fu Cong used his farewell speech to highlight progress in China-EU relations, while urging stronger future ties.
France's top diplomat said Monday (1 April) that Paris expects China to send "clear messages" to its close partner Russia over its war in Ukraine, after meetings with his counterpart in Beijing.
Bavaria’s Minister-President Markus Söder broke with his centre-right party line and spoke out against EU tariffs on Chinese goods during a visit to China on Wednesday, where he also criticised the French.
A senior European Union official denied that the bloc’s recently agreed-upon plan to diversify its supply of strategically critical raw materials targets China, a move interpreted as aimed at easing increasingly fraught relations between Beijing and Brussels
