There is no end to the travel from Europe: After the meeting with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the next Europeans, France’s President Emmanuel Macron and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, are heading to Beijing this week.And it continues after the Easter holidays: German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will visit the Chinese capital […]
There is no end to the travel from Europe: After the meeting with Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, the next Europeans, France’s head of state Emmanuel Macron and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, are heading to Beijing this week.And it continues after the Easter holidays: German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will visit the […]
Shortly before her first trip to Beijing as head of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen gave an idea of what she has to say in the Chinese capital in a surprisingly clear speech on EU-China relations. At the event organized by the think tanks European Policy Center and the Beijing-sanctioned Merics Institute in […]
Shortly before her first trip to Beijing as head of the EU Commission, Ursula von der Leyen gave an idea of what she has to say in the Chinese capital in a surprisingly clear speech on EU-China relations. At the event organized by the think tanks European Policy Center and the Beijing-sanctioned Merics Institute in […]
The EU Commission wants to invest around €45 million in electric buses in Kenya as part of its alternative to Beijing’s New Silk Road. On the sidelines of a meeting between EU Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen and Kenya’s President William Ruto in Brussels, a memorandum of understanding to this effect was signed, the […]
In Debrecen, China’s battery giant Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) faces headwinds. In the city in Hungary’s east, citizens have demonstrated against a planned factory of the company. The protesters are concerned about the impact of the lithium-ion battery factory on the environment and water consumption in the region. The possible settlement of Chinese workers and […]
The EU institutions have agreed on a new instrument that will allow Europe to respond more effectively to economic coercion attempts from non-EU countries like China. The EU Parliament, the EU Commission and the EU Council of Member States (the so-called trilogue) negotiated a political agreement on early Tuesday morning. The Anti-Coercion Instrument, ACI for […]
The EU institutions have agreed on a new instrument that will allow Europe to respond more effectively to economic coercion attempts from non-EU countries like China. The EU Parliament, the EU Commission and the EU Council of Member States (the so-called trilogue) negotiated a political agreement on early Tuesday morning. The Anti-Coercion Instrument, ACI for […]
The first spring sun glistens on the Seine – and along its banks, there is something that has not been seen in this form since the pandemic: Tour buses are parked one after the other. In front of the pier for sightseeing boats, Chinese tourist groups are waiting. It seems they are back: The travelers […]
Xi Jinping will land in Moscow on Monday – where he will meet the Russian President. Xi’s visit gives Vladimir Putin a bit of a leg-up again, just days after he received another signal of ostracism from the international community in the form of an arrest warrant from The Hague. The three-day Sino-Russian summit is […]